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I wonder why he didn't save her from a shipwreck instead of me. It would have given an appropriate touch of romance to the affair, which is now entirely wasted upon a young person, if I may still call myself so, with whom it has no concern. "What interests me more than our host's matrimonial engagements, however, are his experiments with aerophones.
His instruments, which were wireless telephones aerophones he called them were to be made in pairs, twins that should talk only to each other. They required no high poles, or balloons, or any other cumbrous and expensive appliance; indeed, their size was no larger than that of a rather thick despatch box. And he had triumphed; the thing was done in all but one or two details.
It was you who grew away from me, not me from you, when you took to studying mysticism and aerophones, and were repelled by all women, myself included." "I know, I know," he said. "Don't remind me of my dead follies. Some things are born in the blood." "Quite so, and they remain in the bone. I understand.
Thus it came about that through most of the short hours of winter daylight Morris and Stella found themselves at their respective positions, corresponding, or trying to correspond, through the aerophones.
"And after that?" queried Morris. "Oh, after that, honour and glory and wealth and power and the happy ending. Doesn't it sound nice?" "Ye es, in a way. But," he added with energy, "it won't come off. No, not the aerophones, they are right enough I believe, but all the rest of it." "Why not?" "Because it is too much. 'Happy endings' don't come off.
The young lady was never in the way. Now that she had procured some suitable clothes the young lady was distinctly good looking; she was remarkably intelligent and well-read; she sang, as Stephen Layard had said, "like an angel"; she took a most enlightened interest in aerophones and their possibilities; she proved a very useful assistant in various experiments; and made one or two valuable suggestions.
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