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Cortlandt, who looked the youngest and most animated of the flock, was quite overwhelmed with thanks and congratulations upon the success of her excursion. "Yes, it was perfect; you've given us all a great deal of pleasure, Mrs. Cortlandt," Mr. King was saying, as he stood beside her, watching the exodus. Perhaps Mrs.
He listened, smiled, spoke rarely, and continued to spend nine-tenths of his time in that isolated corner of the smoking-room, with no other company than a long glass and a siphon. One day when Kirk had begun to feel that his acquaintance with Mrs. Cortlandt was well established, he said to her: "Stein told me to-day that your husband is in the diplomatic service." "Yes," said she.
"Anything short of explosive bullets," added Bearwarden, "would have been powerless against this beast, for the armour in many places is nearly a foot thick." "This is also the most extraordinary as well as most dangerous creature with which we have, had to deal," said Cortlandt, "because it is an enormously enlarged insect, with all the inherent ferocity and strength.
Soon after this the eight moons became visible, and, while slightly reducing the Callisto's speed, they crossed the orbits of Iapetus, Hyperion, and Titan, when they knew they were but seven hundred and fifty thousand miles from Saturn. "I am anxious to ascertain," said Cortlandt, "whether the composition of yonder rings is similar to that of the comet through which we passed.
Cortlandt will be getting worried." "In all probability he won't know anything about it until too late to come for us. He is dining with these people from Bocas, and may not get back to the Tivoli before midnight." "Nice fix we're in!" remarked Anthony. "I'd like to lay hands on that captain." "We may have to stay here all night!" "Well, at least we have a haven of refuge.
Czenki, and whose opinion of himself was unanimously accepted by the others. The meeting place was the directors' room of the H. Latham Company. At one minute of three o'clock a clerk entered with a card, and handed it to Mr. Latham. "'Mr. E. van Cortlandt Wynne," Mr. Latham read aloud, and every man in the room moved a little in his chair. Then: "Show him in here, please."
They're swell people, society folks and all that " He broke off to bow effusively to the late comer, who seated himself opposite; then he introduced Kirk. Mr. Cortlandt impressed Anthony as a cold-blooded, highly schooled person, absolutely devoid of sentiment. His face was stony, his eyes were cool, even his linen partook of his own unruffled calm.
"As every place seems to have been settled from some other," said Cortlandt, "I do not see why, with increased scientific facilities, history should not repeat itself, and this be the point from which to colonize the solar system; for, for the present at least, it would seem that we could not get beyond that."
Pendragon, and Mrs. Simpkins were to go as chaperons, and Mr. Meigs had been invited by Mrs. Cortlandt, King learned to his disgust, also to act as a chaperon. All the proprieties are observed at Bar Harbor. Half a dozen long buckboards were loaded with their merry freight. At the last Mrs. Pendragon pleaded a headache, and could not go. Mr.
Van Cortlandt says he is very clever." "Yes?" "I haven't read his book. They say he is a lawyer." "Lawyer's clerk, I believe," said Mrs. Mavick, indifferently. "Authors are pretty plenty nowadays." "That's a fact. Everybody writes. I don't see how all the poor devils live." Mr. Van Cortlandt had now caught the proper tone, and the conversation drifted away from personalities.
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