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At the usual rate for such lessons, his debt, with interest for twenty-odd years, would run very far into the hundreds.
I who had been studying those scoundrels for twenty-odd years, and dealing directly with and for them for ten years! He wasn't at his office; they told me there that they didn't know whether he was at his town house or at his place in the country "probably in the country," said his down-town secretary, with elaborate carelessness.
I say "hurried," but before the journey of twenty-odd miles was half over, we realized the truth of the old adage, "The more haste, the less speed." The automobile began to sulk and finally could be persuaded to go only on the low gear, and to rattle along at about the speed of a man with a horse and buggy. We reached Lahaina just as the boat was entering the harbor.
To maintain a post within musket shot of the enemy for six months together, without ammunition; and at the same time, to disband one army and recruit another, within that distance of twenty-odd British regiments, is more than, probably, ever was attempted. But if we succeed as well in the latter, as we have hitherto done in the former, I shall think it the most fortunate event of my whole life."
No. 12 is at times a chemical, a physical, or a mechanical room occasionally a combination of all, while sometimes it might be called a consultation-room or clinic for often Edison may be seen there in animated conference with a group of his assistants; but its chief distinction lies in its being one of his favorite haunts, and in the fact that within its walls have been settled many of the perplexing problems and momentous questions that have brought about great changes in electrical and engineering arts during the twenty-odd years that have elapsed since the Orange laboratory was built.
And along with this, as they master the principles of science, let them learn also the human side of science, the story of Newton, withholding his great discovery for years until he could be absolutely certain that it was a law; until he could get the very commonplace but obstreperous moon into harmony with his law of falling bodies; the story of Darwin, with his twenty-odd years of the most patient and persistent kind of toil; delving into the most unpromising materials, reading the driest books, always on the lookout for the facts that would point the way to the explanation of species; the story of Morse and his bitter struggle against poverty, and sickness, and innumerable disappointments up to the time when, in advancing years, success crowned his efforts.
For all the twenty-odd years between them, and the gulf of sex differentiation, there was in her glance and bearing much of the middle-aged man who sat on the porch with a book across his knees and a clay pipe in his mouth. It did not lie in facial resemblance. It was more subtle than likeness of feature.
You see, there was twenty-some-odd of us an' none friendless. Take twenty-odd votes an' multiply 'em by the number of friends each has got an' I reckon ten head of friends apiece wouldn't overshoot the figure an' you've got between two hundred an' three hundred votes which is a winnin' majority for any candidate among 'em. Knowin' this, they wink at the jail delivery an' cinch those votes.
"Some twenty-odd thousand," he said soberly; "and I believe the man that got it is responsible for the holdups that have been pulled off around here." "Who got it?" Mannix asked quickly. "Rathburn," Sautee announced. Mannix smiled in undisgusted contempt. "Your own fault," he pointed out. "Wouldn't give me a chance to investigate. Said you had a scheme that would show him up one way or the other.
Hilda lived alone, attended by a very pretty and competent French servant who answered the door and brought in the tea. Alexander arrived early, and some twenty-odd people dropped in during the course of the afternoon. Hugh MacConnell came with his sister, and stood about, managing his tea-cup awkwardly and watching every one out of his deep-set, faded eyes.
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