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He began to fold his mother's letter, and put it back into its envelope, while a slight flush mounted in his cheeks, and the young mouth that was still so boyish and candid took a stiffer line. "Is Miss Floyd at home?" The questioner was Mrs. Verrier, who had just alighted from her carriage at the door of the house in Columbia Avenue inhabited by Miss Floyd and her chaperon.
Verrier stretched out a hand and laughingly turned the small face towards her that she might see what was in it. "Daphne! I really believe you're in love with him!" "Not at all," said Daphne, her eyelids flickering; "I never know what to talk to him about." "As if that mattered!" "Elsie Maddison always knows what to talk to him about, and he chatters to her the whole time." Mrs.
On leaving the school Le Verrier at first purposed to devote himself to the public service, in the department of civil engineering; and it is worthy of note that his earliest scientific work was not in those mathematical researches in which he was ultimately to become so famous. His duties in the engineering department involved practical chemical research in the laboratory.
Whereby it had come about that Daphne's attention had been first provoked, then peremptorily seized by the Englishman; and Mrs. Verrier began now to suspect that deeper things were really involved. Certainly there was a good deal to puzzle the spectator.
"I am very sorry if I misunderstood you," he said, a little on his dignity; "but I thought you " "You thought I sympathized with Mrs. Verrier? So I do; though of course I am awfully sorry that such a dreadful thing happened. But you'll find, Mr. Barnes, that American girls " The colour rushed into her small olive cheeks.
The taller and elder, the one with gray hair, a dark, sharp Bedouin countenance, and that large, wild, black eye, with a smile of mingled sarcasm and humor ever on his thin lip, is Emanuel Arago. The other, the short, robust man, with fair complexion, sandy hair, bright blue eye and vivacious expression, is Le Verrier, the most tireless star-gazer science has produced since Galileo.
In a century, or even in a thousand years, there is but little recognisable difference in the shape of the track pursued by the earth. Vast periods of time are required for the development of the large consequences of planetary perturbation. Le Verrier has, however, given us the particulars of what the earth's journey through space has been at intervals of 20,000 years back from the present date.
Altogether, the room, one would have said, of any bourse moyenne, with an eye for beauty. Fine photographs also, of Italian and Dutch pictures, suggested travel, and struck the cultivated cosmopolitan note. Mrs. Verrier looked round it with a smile. It was all as unpretending as the maid who ushered her upstairs. Daphne would have no men-servants in her employ.
Verrier believed that the girl had been originally carried off her feet by the young man's superb good looks, and by the natural distinction evident in all societies which they conferred upon him. Then, no doubt, she had been piqued by his good-humoured, easy way the absence of any doubt of himself, of tremor, of insistence. Mrs.
These tables have, however, been deviating from the true motion of the planet, owing to the motion of the perihelion of Mercury, subsequently discovered by Le Verrier himself. They are now much less accurate than the newer tables published by Le Verrier ten years later. Of Venus new tables were constructed by Mr. Hill in 1872.
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