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We had numerous visitors; and in our desire to satisfy persons who appeared so happy to see the spots of the moon through Dollond's telescope, the absorption of two gases in a eudiometrical tube, or the effects of galvanism on the motions of a frog, we were obliged to answer questions often obscure, and to repeat for whole hours the same experiments.
Frauenhofer, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, while applying Dollond's discovery to make large achromatic telescopes, studied the dispersion of light by a prism. Admitting the light of the sun through a narrow slit in a window-shutter, an inverted image of the slit can be thrown, by a lens of suitable focal length, on the wall opposite.
I told him the time, the place in which I had seen him; I described to him all who had been present, and added, moreover, this token: he should particularly inquire after a Dollond's telescope; after a gold interwoven Turkish carpet; after a splendid pleasure-tent; and, finally, after the black chargers, whose story, we knew not how, was connected with that of the mysterious man, who seemed of no consideration amongst them, and whose appearance had destroyed the quiet and happiness of my life.
Is she a great friend of yours, or don't you know her well enough to abuse her? I like the husband; he amuses me, though he is rather a bear. Otherwise, I should not see very much of Mrs. Dollond, I promise you." Eve smiled at the thought of Mr. Dollond's eccentricities, and then her face grew rather grave. "Shall we go into the lecture-room?" she suggested.
I mentioned the time and place at which I had seen him, named all the persons who were present, and concluded with the following directions: He was to inquire for a Dollond's telescope, a Turkey carpet interwoven with gold, a marquee, and, finally, for some black steeds the history, without entering into particulars, of all these being singularly connected with the mysterious character who seemed to pass unnoticed by every one, but whose appearance had destroyed the peace and happiness of my life.
Then she said a little abruptly: "It seems funny, now that one knows him, that there should be those stories." "Stories? About Rainham?" Her husband glanced at her with some surprise. "Yes," she said. "Of course, you never know anything; but he is talked about." "Ah, poor man!" said Mr. Dollond. "What has he done?" Mrs. Dollond's fair eyebrows were arched significantly, and Mrs.
Is that Lady Garnett with her? What lovely white hair! I wonder where she gets it." Lady Garnett shrugged her shoulders a little petulantly after she had made the ghost of a return to Mrs. Dollond's airy greeting. "My dear," she said, turning to Eve confidentially, "may I confess to you that I am not altogether too fond of that woman?
Dollond's sparkling sallies with a blissful ignorance of her secret ambition in the direction of a partner who would make her dance, and for whose edification she would be able to liken the Colonel's warlike figure to a newly-boiled lobster, or a ripe tomato. "Regular flower-show, isn't it?" he suggested, naïvely reinforcing his simile.
Dollond's shoulders, as they passed the Octroi, a gesture discreetly mocking of the conditions they had left, he could enter with some humour, the appreciation of a resident who still permitted himself at times the licence of a casual visitor on his domain. "Tell me," Mrs.
Dollond's instigation, started for a stroll through the olives towards the old town. "Are you wintering here?" he asked after a moment, feeling that an affirmative answer would hardly be to his taste. But Mrs. Dollond, with an upward inclination of her vivacious shoulders, repudiated the notion.
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