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It looked very much as if Fru Geissler's brothers and kinsmen were trying to buy off her husband, secure themselves against his visits for the future, and get quit of a troublesome relation.
This wheel is in a dark box and the eye can see the pictures on the paper strip only at the moment when the light of a Geissler's tube flashes up. The wheel itself has such electric contacts that the intervals between two flashes correspond to the time which is necessary to move the wheel from one picture to the next.
Isak had heard men speak of the telegraph; a wonderful thing, a string hung up on big poles, something altogether above the common earth. The mention of it now seemed to shake his faith in Geissler's big words, and he put in anxiously: "But suppose the King says no?" Said Geissler: "In that case, I send in my supplementary material, a full account of the whole affair.
And he had not only Geissler's two hundred untouched, but more than that a hundred and sixty Daler more. Ay, they might well be thankful to God! They spoke of Geissler again; Inger was able to tell how he had helped to get her set free.
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