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Updated: June 16, 2025
"The fact is," I said, "that I'm a little well, sensitive; and when you, or the person I thought was you, did not speak to me, nor look at me, nor pay any more heed to me than if I had been a talking-machine worked with a crank, I was somewhat provoked, and determined that if you suddenly chose to freeze in that way I would freeze too, and that you should have no more of that story in which you were so interested; and so I smashed the loves of Tomaso and Lucilla and took up commerce, which I was sure you would hate."
But, dream or fact, here it is: The first-cabin passengers were gathered in the lounge Sunday evening, with the exception of the bridge fiends in the smoking-room. Poor Butterfly was dying wearily on the talking-machine and several couples were dancing. About the tables in the smoke-room the conversation was limited to the announcement of bids and orders to the stewards.
"Sit up straight, Miss! Sit up straight!" "My dear child, you have no sense of time!" And, "What on earth ever put such a question into your head!" She concluded that the expressions were issuing from the large bell-shaped horn which was pointed her way over one shoulder of the man in green. The talking-machine to which the horn was attached a handsome mahogany affair he carried on his back.
He believes firmly that a tiny dwarf resides in the box of my talking-machine and that it is the tiny dwarf who does the singing and the talking. Not even Mr. Burroughs will affirm that the child has reached this conclusion by an instinctive process. Of course, the child reasons the existence of the dwarf in the box. How else could the box talk and sing?
For instance, in the scene of the Mariage force between Sganarelle and Pancrace, the entire vis comica lies in the conflict set up between the idea of Sganarelle, who wishes to make the philosopher listen to him, and the obstinacy of the philosopher, a regular talking-machine working automatically.
Diagonal from it, the horn of a talking-machine, in shape a large, a violent, a tin morning-glory, was directed full against the company. Not a brilliant scene, except by grace or gracelessness of state of mind.
Brother Bill attached himself to Archie's arm, and became communicative. "I didn't want to mention it in front of van Tuyl," he said, "because he's such a talking-machine, and it would have been all over New York before dinner-time. But you're one of the family, and you can keep a secret." "Absolutely! Silent tomb and what not."
"I was experimenting," he says, "on an automatic method of recording telegraph messages on a disk of paper laid on a revolving platen, exactly the same as the disk talking-machine of to-day. The platen had a spiral groove on its surface, like the disk.
Understand, though, while you might be able to fool me, you wouldn't fool the man I'm buying it for. Now what would you suggest?" The clerk a salesman familiar with certain urban types, thinly including the Fifth Avenue, which came in for talking-machine records recognized in this well-dressed, attractive elderly man that which he designated the swell.
I am coming back to stay all next summer, and papa too," she said, when she reached the middle of the kitchen. "Thank the goodness!" said Serena. "Only don't let your pa bring his talking-machine to save up everybody's foolish speeches.
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