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Only Doris Meadows, the lecturer's wife, herself an artist, and a much better one than the author of the drawing, had smiled a little queerly on being allowed a sight of it. However, she was no less excited by the batch of letters her husband had allowed her to open than he by his.
Jacquelina was perhaps the very least enchanted of all his hearers she was, in fact, an exception, and found the discourse so entirely uninteresting that it was with difficulty she could refrain from yawning in the face of the orator. Mrs. Waugh also, perhaps, was but half mesmerized, for her eyes would cautiously wander from the lecturer's pulpit to the side window on her right hand.
The lecture was on "The ancestry and birth of Jesus", and was largely devoted to tracing the resemblance between the Christ and Krishna myths. As this ground was well-known to me, I was able to judge of the lecturer's accuracy, and quickly found that his knowledge was as sound as his language was splendid.
What with the female lecturer's lack of English pronunciation, what with her impetuosity, and with Mary's own innocence on the matter, it was some time before the younger lady did understand what the elder lady required.
Men have learned to understand thunder, and to protect themselves from its power; and now, since Franklin and Morse have commenced the work of subduing the potent and mysterious agent in which it originates, to the human will, the presumption is not very strong against the supposition that the time may come when human science may actually produce it in the sky as it is now produced, in effect, upon the lecturer's table.
The electric system of propulsion was, in the lecturer's opinion, sufficiently advanced to assure practical success under suitable circumstances such as for suburban tramways, elevated lines, and above all lines through tunnels; such as the Metropolitan and District Railways.
We know that it was not considered the best; we know that many of the delighted audience were not sufficiently familiar with literary history fully to understand the position of the man in the lecturer's review; but, as a key to Thackeray, it was, perhaps, the most valuable of all.
And all these people in numbers three and four are so fully occupied in this dreadful struggle to secure a little, that but few of them pause to inquire why there are not more of the things they are fighting for, or why it is necessary to fight like this at all! For a few minutes silence prevailed, each man's mind being busy trying to think of some objection to the lecturer's arguments.
"There are so many things to do, you see," began Willersley, in his judicial lecturer's voice. "So many things we may do," I interrupted, "with all these years before us.... We're exceptional men. It's our place, our duty, to do things." "Here anyhow," I said, answering the faint amusement of his face; "I've got no modesty. Everything conspires to set me up.
She had forgotten all about the Sherlock Holmes adventure, and she suddenly had an inspiration. Be it said to her credit that she hesitated a moment; but the lecturer's next remark led to her own undoing. She was murmuring something about feeling like a stranger, and wishing that she might know the students informally and see a little of the real college life.
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