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Bridgeman's is really the only house in London at which you can meet him. Isn't that so, Mr. Vivian?" "Yes." "You say he has made investigation into the possibility of there being oxygen in many of the holy stars?" "Mr. Vivian!" "Yes." "The old astronomer must encounter him!" exclaimed Sir Tiglath, puffing furiously as he rolled about the room. "Mr.
"Say the oxygen, darling," whispered Lady Enid in one of her ears. "Say the oxygen!" hissed the Prophet into the other. "The occiput?" said Mrs. Bridgeman, hearing imperfectly. "Oh, yes, Sir Tiglath, I told him, I told Mr. Biggle to make quite sure yes, as to the occiput matter."
At this point the miracle happened, for, instead of responding to the lady's-maid's appeal, and promptly disintegrating into his respective atoms, Sir Tiglath suddenly became comparatively small and comparatively pale, sat forward, wagged his head at Mrs. Fancy, and rumbled out in his ordinary voice, "Have you never heard where liars go to, woman? Oh-h-h-h!"
Their eyes grew round, their features rigid, their hands tense, their attitudes expectant. Leaning forward, they stared upon Sir Tiglath with an unwinking fixity and preternatural determination that was almost entirely infantine. And while they did so he continued slowly to expand in size and to deepen in colour until mortality seemed to drop from him.
The brain and I, Sir Tiglath; so good of you to say so!" "You prompted his interest in the holy stars?" continued Sir Tiglath, speaking very loud, and still stopping one ear with his hand. "You drove him to the telescope; you told him to clear the matter up, did you?" "What matter?" said Mrs. Bridgeman, trying not to look as stupid as she felt, but only with moderate success.
But these Mushki had so far adopted Hatti civilization either before or since their great raiding expedition which Tiglath Pileser I of Assyria repelled, that their domination can scarcely have made much difference to the social condition of Asia Minor. Their capital was probably where the Hatti capital had been at Boghazkeui; but how far their lordship radiated from that centre is not known.
"Dear me!" said Madame, with pitying amazement. "You hear her ladyship, Jupiter?" "I do, my angel. Madame is a lady of deep education, ma'am," said Mr. Sagittarius, turning to Mrs. Merillia, who had been listening to the foregoing cross-examination with perpetually-increasing horror. "No decent female should understand Greek or Latin," roared Sir Tiglath at this point.
Vivian, if Sir Tiglath found out for certain that I was Miss Minerva, he might discover my double life, and if he did that, he is so sensible that I am sure he would never speak to me again, and I could not fulfil my vow to dear Mrs. Bridgeman." "I quite see." "Nor my other vow to myself." "Which one?" "Oh, never mind." "I won't."
Get off them this moment and answer me is this young female speaking the truth?" The Prophet got off the instruments and, in answer to a firm, Scottish gesture from Lady Enid, nodded his head twice. "What!" continued Sir Tiglath, puffing out his cheeks, "a woman be a pioneer among the Heavenly Bodies!" The Prophet nodded again, as mechanically as a penny toy.
Gustavus, who was trembling a good deal more than an autumn leaf, complied after about fifteen unavailing attempts. "There, Sir Tiglath," said the Prophet. "Now you can begin." And he seated himself upon a settee, leaned back and crossed his legs. "You will not accompany the old astronomer? Oh-h-h" "No. I will rest here.
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