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Croll," he tells us, "estimates that about sixty millions of years have elapsed since the Cambrian period, but this, judging from the small amount of organic change since the commencement of the glacial period, seems a very short time for the many and the great mutations of life, which have certainly occurred since the Cambrian formation; and the previous one hundred and forty million years can hardly be considered as sufficient for the development of the varied forms of life which certainly existed toward the close of the Cambrian period."
The old Marquis is rather hard upon me, but the marriage is so splendid that I have consented. You must now sign these papers in four or five places. Mr Croll is here, in the next room, to witness your signature, and I will call him. 'Wait a moment, papa. 'Why should we wait? 'I don't think I will sign them. 'Why not sign them? You can't really suppose that the property is your own.
Mr Croll would have been of course happy to witness Miss Melmotte's signature; but as for that other kind of witnessing, this clearly to his thinking was not the time for such good-nature on his part. 'You know what's up now; don't you? said one of the junior clerks to Mr Croll when he entered the office in Abchurch Lane. 'A good deal will be up soon, said the German. 'Cohenlupe has gone!
Croll gives the following illustration: Take a narrow strip of paper, eighty-three feet four inches in length, and stretch it along the wall of a large hall; then mark off at one end the tenth of an inch. This tenth of an inch will represent one hundred years, and the entire strip a million years.
Morris W. Croll, "The Cadence of English Oratorical Prose," Studies in Philology. January, 1919. Oliver W. Elton, "English Prose Numbers," in Essays and Studies by members of the English Association, 4th Series.
He explained very fully how absolutely the property was his own, how totally the girl was without any right to withhold it from him! How monstrous in its injustice was the present position of things! In all this Croll fully agreed. Then Melmotte went on to declare that he would not feel the slightest scruple in writing Marie's signature to the papers himself.
The care of the house and the alterations had been confided to another contractor, and his foreman was waiting to see the place locked up. A confidential clerk, who had been with Melmotte for years, and who knew his ways, was there also to guard the property. 'Good night, Croll, he said to the man in German. Croll touched his hat and bade him good night.
Melmotte thought that it might be well to be gracious. 'Ask him if he has breakfasted, and if not give him something in the study. But Mr Croll had breakfasted and declined any further refreshment. Nevertheless Melmotte had not as yet made up his mind that he would meet his clerk. His clerk was his clerk.
Again he had aided his own ruin by his own carelessness. One seems inclined to think sometimes that any fool might do an honest business. But fraud requires a man to be alive and wide awake at every turn! Melmotte had desired to have the documents back in his own hands, and now he had them. Did it matter much that Brehgert and Croll both knew the crime which he had committed?
Croll shows, by calculating the known amount of sediment annually brought down by certain rivers, relatively to their areas of drainage, that 1,000 feet of solid rock, as it became gradually disintegrated, would thus be removed from the mean level of the whole area in the course of six million years.
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