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Travers's marvellous thermometer is hydrogen gas. The principle by which it is utilized does not differ, in its rough essentials, from that of ordinary thermometers, but the details of its construction are much too intricate to be elaborated here.
Travers was fascinated by the child's naïvety. "Teach me all I want to know. Why, I'm going to suffer and know many things!" "Good Lord!" ejaculated Travers; "you won't mind if I laugh?" "I don't think there's anything to laugh at!" Priscilla held him sternly. "Have you ever suffered?" The laugh died from Travers's face. "Suffered!" he repeated. "Yes! yes!"
I want you to find some way of getting at the truth, of looking into Travers's luggage, into my stepmother's effects, and unearthing the horrible stuff with which they are doing this thing; and perhaps, when that is known, some antidote may be found to save the dear old dad and restore him to what he was. Can't you do this? For God's sake, say that you can." "At all events, I can try, Mr.
On, on, they two went before Travers's aching eyes. The way before them was shining, or was it the light of Priscilla's hair? They were leaving him, all men, in the dark! It was to seek the light, or And then Travers got up and left the room with bowed head, like one turning his back upon the dead. He went to Ledyard at once, and found that cheerful gentleman awaiting him. "At last!" he cried.
Deane's revelation of Charlie's treachery hardly surprised her; she meant to upbraid him severely, but she was conscious that, if little surprised, she was hardly more than a little angry. His conduct was indeed contemptible; it revealed an utter instability and fickleness of mind which made her gravely uneasy as to Mary Travers's chances of permanent happiness.
He was not rough in manner, but acted like one who felt himself master of the situation. His course, indeed, suggested to Tom that there was much truth in Jim Travers's declaration about the power of the human eye over the denizens of the jungle.
Is it Rochefoucauld who says that a man is never more likely to form a hopeful attachment for one than when his heart is softened by a hopeless attachment to another? May it be long, my dear father, before you condole with me on the first or congratulate me on the second. Your affectionate son, Direct to me at Mr. Travers's. Kindest love to my mother.
It seems to me that the flaw in this scheme of yours, Jeeves, is that it's going to litter the garden with mangled corpses." "No, sir. You will recall that Mr. Travers's fear of burglars has caused him to have stout bars fixed to all the windows." "Of course, yes. Well, it sounds all right," I said, though still a bit doubtfully. "Quite possibly it may come off.
I want you to find some way of getting at the truth, of looking into Travers's luggage, into my stepmother's effects, and unearthing the horrible stuff with which they are doing this thing; and perhaps, when that is known, some antidote may be found to save the dear old dad and restore him to what he was. Can't you do this? For God's sake, say that you can." "At all events, I can try, Mr.
And so, one time when he came into the neighbourhood to see his parents for the Christmas holiday, he took a bit of liking to me; and my father, who was Squire Travers's bailiff, had just died, and left me a little money.
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