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For he is a caricature not of himself but of you. He is a rival before whom your senses wince as before some unflattering image. Yes the image of Mallare stands saluting his charming chimera with an interesting Ethiopian erection. For though they differ in many externals, Mallare and Goliath are one. They are ornamented insulations for an identical current.
They tramped and rode back and forth along the right of way, occupied with their insulations, the height of their water, their watts and volts and amperes. Surroundings were a matter of indifference to them. Activity was of the same sort, whether in the city or in the wilderness. As influences city or wilderness it was all the same to them.
Besides, we have heats of dungs; and of bellies and maws of living creatures, and of their bloods and bodies; and of hays and herbs laid up moist; of lime unquenched; and such like. Instruments also which generate heat only by motion. And farther, places for strong insulations; and again, places under the earth, which by nature, or art, yield heat.
The telegraph line, somewhere between Tabernacle and the country which lay over the bleak, now deadly range, was a shattered thing, with poles buried in drifts, with loose strands of wire swinging in the gusts of the blizzard, with ice coated upon the insulations, and repair until the sun should come and the snows melt an almost impossible task.
"There might yet be a chance," he murmured, almost joyfully; "the storm is breaking." His eyes wandered to the fleeting clouds. "Dawn's coming, too. I I why, I might send a message. The motor's gone dead, of course, but there are still storage batteries. If only the insulations are good. If water has not soaked in anywhere!" With trembling fingers he tested the batteries.
The harbor defenses comprising submarine mines and searchlight stations, etc., I found to be in the worst condition. In pottering around, I visited many of the switchboard stations controlling the submarine mine fields. Everywhere the eye met evidences of defective work rusty contacts, open insulations and exposed connections.
And all of a sudden they had too much juice turned on. Bang went their insulations whatever they were. "Bang went they. Burned out short circuited. I don't pretend to know why or how. Nonsense! I do know. The cones were some kind of immensely concentrated force electric, magnetic; either or both or more. I myself believe that they were probably solid in a way of speaking coronium.
One of the peculiarities of the life of these ascendant families of the industrial class to which wealth has come, is its tremendous insulations. There were no customs of intercourse in the Five Towns. All the isolated prosperities of the district sprang from economising, hard driven homes, in which there was neither time nor means for hospitality.
Instruments also which generate heat only by motion. And farther, places for strong insulations; and again, places under the earth, which by nature or art yield heat. These divers heats we use, as the nature of the operation which we intend requireth.
"Much more easily than any other kind." Then he went on to explain something about "insulations," "gnawing," "running across and completing the circuit," and a deal more of technical description, which confused Miss Lucy quite as much as it did all the others who heard it. "Well," declared the lady, after vainly trying to comprehend what seemed so exceedingly simple to Mr.