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"Oh dear!" said Leo, wondering how their freshness was preserved. "Yes, I suppose you have no idea of our canning business." "None in the world." "I presumed as much," said Paz, wisely, "nor am I going to bore you with any more information." Leo looked quite shocked. "Oh, well," said Paz, profoundly, "there's a limit to all things, and I'm not a Knops."
"Gently! gently!" said Paz and Knops; "they are easily frightened. Though they do not see you, their instinct is so fine that they can nearly guess your presence." "I am sorry if I have frightened them," said Leo. "Can't you say something to soothe them? Tell them how lovely their things are. I long to try and imitate them."
"No need at present." "Why not?" "I was going through a formula in D." "What under the sun is that?" "Something relating to my pursuits. Don't trouble yourself to try and find out everything. In my opinion Master Knops has crammed you too hard. What do you say to my telling you a story or two?" "Splendid! I'm ready when you are." "No, you are not; you're hungry.
"I have lost it lost it, Master Knops." "Lost what, Paz?" "The finest stone I ever made, and I have been years at it." "How did that happen?" "Burned it too long look!" and he produced in his spidery hand a small mass of charcoal. "Never mind, Paz; better luck next time," said Knops, kindly. "No, I am no longer fit for the profession; such a mistake is inexcusable.
Knops now led Leo through so many places full of machines and contrivances which the water-power kept active that he was glad when they went up a long inclined plane, and came out into a wide gallery lined with mother-of-pearl, and paved with exquisite sea-shells.
We have none in our lakes; the water is too pure and free from vegetable matter for fish. It is doubly distilled. Taste it." Leo took the glass which Knops offered, and confessed he had never tasted anything more delicious. "We sometimes force carbonic gas into mineral springs, but that, as well as the salts considered so beneficial, is left to our chemists to regulate.
And in the candlestick were four bowls made like almonds, his knops, and his flowers: And a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches going out of it. Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
The candlestick was a type of the church, and the knops and flowers a type of her ornaments. But what! must heaven be hanged round about with the ornaments of saints! with the fruits of their graces!
Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold. And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it. And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold. Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.
The ladies' drawing-room, perhaps a hundred feet by forty, carried an arched and superbly enriched plaster ceiling of knops and arabesques and interlacings, which somehow seemed familiar. 'We saw a photo of it in Country Life, the contractor explained. 'It seemed just what the room needed, so one of our plasterers, a Frenchman that's him took and copied it. It comes in all right, doesn't it?
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