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Besides, `a man's a man for a' that, ain't he, Tanner?" "Chinamen have no business abaft the funnel," said Barkins. "Did he give it to you very warmly, Gnat?" "Pretty well," I said, glad to escape Smith's examination. "I wasn't sorry to get out of the cabin." "No, I should think not. Why, what's come to the old boy taking to bully us himself? I thought he always meant to leave that to Dishy."
Now it has ceased, but still the gnat keeps up its sharp whirr; across the pleasant, persistent, fretful buzz of the flies sounds the hum of a big bee, constantly knocking its head against the ceiling; a cock crows in the street, hoarsely prolonging the last note; there is the rattle of a cart; in the village a gate is creaking. Then the jarring voice of a peasant woman, "What?"
"Don't be don't be so sarcastic," he urged; "don't be unkind, Valentine." "I'm not. I'm kind. I'm very kind, to you and to Cecile." "Cecile is tired of me." "I hope she is," said the girl, "for she deserves a better fate. Tiens, do you know your reputation in the Quarter? Of the inconstant, the most inconstant, utterly incorrigible and no more serious than a gnat on a summer night. Poor Cecile!"
'Didn't I say! he said to Shortshanks, 'didn't I say you were not to call me except in your utmost need? and here there is not so much as a gnat to do you any harm', and with that he gave him such a box on the ear that Shortshanks tumbled head over heels on the grass. 'Now shame on you to 'hit so hard! said Shortshanks.
Move your fingers, I'll get him directly . . . by the gills. Stop, don't prod me with your elbow. . . . I'll have him in a minute, in a minute, only let me get hold of him. . . . The beggar has got a long way under the roots, there is nothing to get hold of. . . . One can't get to the head . . . one can only feel its belly . . . . kill that gnat on my neck it's stinging!
The sirene has been ingeniously applied for the purpose of ascertaining the rate at which the wings of such creatures flap. The instrument being brought into unison with the sound produced by the insect, indicates, as in the case of any other musical sound, the rate of vibration. In this way it has been ascertained that the wings of a gnat flap at the rate of 15,000 times per second.
Lapierre cleared his throat sharply coughed cleared it again. Discourage trapping north of sixty! Had he heard aright? He swallowed hard, mumbled an apology anent the inhalation of a gnat, and answered in all seriousness. "A worthy object, Miss Elliston a very worthy object; but one that will require time to consummate. At present the taking of fur is the business of the North.
In his term he had seen many another come in hope, linger in disappointment, leave only to go to a meaner cell in the same stratum of misfortune. What could be done to prevent it? Nothing that the wits of P. Sybarite could compass: he was as inefficient as any gnat in any web.... Through the halls resounded the cacophonous clangour of a cracked gong announcing dinner.
Think for a moment of the development of the germ within the egg of the humming-bird, or the ant, or the gnat, or the eagle. Every second a change may be noticed. The germ cell draws to itself nourishment from the other part of the egg, and then it grows and reproduces another cell. Then both cells divide then subdivide until there are millions and millions and millions of cells.
If he steals grain in the husk, he will be born a rat; if yellow mixed metal, a gander; if money, a great stinging gnat; if fruit, an ape; if the property of a priest, a crocodile. Those persons whose sins are too great to be forgiven in this world, must be sent to one of the hells to winch I have alluded.
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