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Updated: June 6, 2025
Here is Lana's own way of putting it: 'But so that it may be enabled to raise heavier weights and to lift men in the air, let us take double the quantity of copper, 1,232 square feet, equal to 308 lbs. of copper; with this double quantity of copper we could construct a vessel of not only double the capacity, but of four times the capacity of the first, for the reason shown by my fourth supposition.
Lois looked up, seeing us whispering together. "Uncouth manners!" said she. "I am greatly ashamed of you both." I thought to myself, wondering, how utter a change had come over the characters of these two in twice as many weeks! Lois had now something of that quick and mischievous gaiety that once was Lana's; and the troubled eyes that once belonged to Lois now were hers no longer, but Lana's.
He was unable to make practical experiments, and thus failed to perceive the one insuperable drawback to his project of which more anon. Only extracts from the translation of Lana's work can be given here, but sufficient can be given to show fully the means by which he designed to achieve the conquest of the air.
Boyd if you are on that footing with him to consider Lana's reputation a little more, and his own amusement a little less." I said slowly: "Whatever footing I am on with him, I will say that to him, if you wish." "I don't wish you to provoke him." "I shall take pains not to." She said impatiently: "There are far too many army duels now. It sickens me to hear of them.
"You're in time for the dancing. That's the important feature of the evening." "Certainly!" he agreed. "May I be pardoned, Mrs. Stanton, for consulting my hostess's card first?" He secured Lana's program without waiting for the matron's indifferent permission. "A waltz two waltzes, anyway!" he declared. "They settle arrearages in your accounts, Lana, for the two winters you have been away.
The artillery will be sent down by boat, and all the women and children are to go also. Neither Boyd nor I have told this to you and Lana, but " I glanced over my shoulder. "I think he is telling her now." Lois slowly turned and looked toward them. Evidently they no longer cared what others saw or thought, for Lana's cheek lay pressed against his shoulder, and his arm encircled her body.
Impressive tableau!" whispered the young man of the Corson party in Lana's ear, displaying such significant and wonted familiarity that Miss Bunker, employing her vigilance exclusively in the direction in which her fears and her interest lay, sighed and muttered. The door of the corridor was flung open suddenly!
Then the Yellow Moth hung my new blue blanket, which I had lately drawn from our Commissary of Issues, across the door of my hut; two huge boatmen came up with Lana's box, swung between them, and deposited it within the hut. "By the time you are ready," said I, "we will have a breakfast for you such as only the streams of this country can afford."
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