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Updated: October 9, 2025
There were no stairs from the upper floor to the garret above, this ascent being made by means of a wooden ladder which De Vac pulled up after him, closing and securing the aperture, through which he climbed with his burden, by means of a heavy trapdoor equipped with thick bars.
In charge of it was the lean, grizzled, leather-skinned Sir Jules de Vac, and it was he whom Henry commanded to face him in mimic combat with the foils, for the King wished to go with hammer and tongs at someone to vent his suppressed rage.
He had acted instinctively, not even thinking as he used the last full power of the stern tubes to throw them into the shadow cone. And he knew in the same moment that it could save their lives. The sun's pull would only accelerate their fall toward the asteroid. He said exultantly, "We're staying out of high vac, Santos. Light off a propulsion tube. Let's get back to the asteroid."
While the child ate, De Vac hastened to the lower floor of the building in search of Til, whom he now thoroughly mistrusted and feared.
"I would rather hear thy money talk than thou, for though it come accursed and tainted from thy rogue hand, yet it speaks with the same sweet and commanding voice as it were fresh from the coffers of the holy church. "The bundle is ready," she continued, closing the door after De Vac, who had now entered, "and here be the key; but first let us have a payment.
I promised again that I would do a lot of work in the vac; but Jack Ward arranged that he would come down and stay with us directly after the 'Varsity match was over, and I could not be expected to allow him to loll in a boat and play the fool without restraint. I had not been at home in June for years, and June is the month in which to see my mother's garden.
"You haven't forgotten," he said, suddenly gathering courage, "that we're going mad-rabbiting together?" Holly smiled. "Oh! That was only make-believe. One can't do that sort of thing after one's grown up, you know." "Dash it! cousins can," said Val. "Next Long Vac. it begins in June, you know, and goes on for ever we'll watch our chance."
The short Easter vac. served but as a breathing-space, and then another May term began with an unparalleled succession of fine and sunny days. Everything seemed early this spring; trees and shrubs rushed into leaf, a wealth of blossom gave a fairy-like beauty to the old-world gardens, and in every youth and maid the spirit of the spring awoke also, and called to them to come out to play.
We will have a rare good time only Fred and Hawkins have to work hard, the rest of us are not going to do much." "I have to work all the vac," I said sorrowfully, and Fred, who had smiled at my average, began to laugh once more, and he really seemed to be much more cheerful when I saw him and Henderson off at the station, than he had been earlier in the afternoon.
"I can't read history and learn German at the same time," I said to him, "and all my work will be wasted unless I do some this vac." "Your father has evidently made up his mind," he said, but I think that he must have been sorry for me. "You write and tell him that I shall forget all I have been doing. He will listen to you." "German is very valuable to you." "So is history.
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