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Dawes was especially emphatic in declaring that Nasmyth's "willow-leaves" were nothing more than the "nodules" of Sir William Herschel seen under a misleading aspect of uniformity; and there is little doubt that he was right.
He turned out the pockets of Nasmyth's clothes, which were, however, empty of anything that might disclose his identity. "Not a scrap of paper, not a dollar; but I guess that wasn't always the case with him you can see it by his face," he said. Then he laughed. "He's probably like a good many more of us not very anxious to let folks know where he came from."
"I'm going, anyway," he said, taking out some notes and gold and laying them down. "There has been a smart shower and you had better remember that Miss Leslie walked over the roads will be wet. As you know, I promised to take the girls back in Nasmyth's trap, and he won't thank me if I keep his groom up." Crestwick grumbled and hesitated, and he grew rather red in face as he turned to Batley.
As it is, when things are going wrong, all you have to do is to send a word to me." Then, to the relief of his companions, Acton, whose expression changed suddenly, broke in again. "Well," he commented, "I'm not quite sure that Miss Hamilton will look at the thing from Nasmyth's point of view. I guess we'll leave him to explain it to her and Mrs. Acton."
Since Gordon usually called at the ranch when he went down to the settlement, she was more or less acquainted with what was being done at the cañon and with Nasmyth's affairs, and she was on her guard when one of the strangers pulled his horse up close in front of her. "Can we hire a couple of horses here?" he asked. "Ours are played out."
The smoky flame of a little lamp flared upon the rock above, which trickled with moisture, and the light fell upon Nasmyth's wet face, which was deeply flushed. Nasmyth gasped heavily, and great splashes of sand and mire lay thick upon his torn, drenched shirt. He appeared to see Wheeler, for he looked up, but he did not stop until he had driven the wedge in.
The spray from the splashing bows blew into their faces, and the broken water checked them badly. Nasmyth's hands began to blister. To make it worse, there was a raw wound on one of them, the result of a similar day's toil; and his knees chafed sore against the branches in the craft's bottom.
The influence of this system was not always satisfactory. The Middlemen or Dealers, who stood between the artist and the final possessor of the works, were not generous. They higgled about prices, and the sums which they gave were almost infinitesimal compared with the value of Patrick Nasmyth's pictures at the present time.
It must be remembered that the moon as seen through a telescope appears in reversed position. Ibid., p. 66. As represented by Nasmyth's models in plaster. Ball, loc. cit., p. 67. Ball, loc. cit., p. 69. Astronomy, p. 78. Outlines of Astronomy, p. 285.
George sat upon the skylights sucking at his pipe, and it presently became evident that his thoughts and Nasmyth's were very much alike. There was nobody else on board, for the man who fired and drove the engines was ashore. "I guess you can catch trout?" the skipper remarked. "Oh yes," answered Nasmyth indifferently. "As a matter of fact, I've had to, when there was very little else to eat."
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