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Your sleepiness, dear Miss Maud, does you credit. By the way, what the deuce is the name of anyone of these novels? I can recall "Elsie Vernier," by Dr. Holmes and then there is a blank. But what classics they were then! In the thick of them had appeared a newspaper story that struggled through and was printed in book form.
He turned the weapon over and over in his hand, looked down the barrel, tried the hammer and trigger, carefully examined the wind-gauge and vernier rear-sights, but could not see that anything was out of order. "I'm afraid it was my fault," he said, with a sigh, "but it will never do to let the boys know it. I'll insist that I struck the buck, though I'm afraid I didn't."
The deputy Feraud entered precipitately, pursued by the insurgents, who fired some shots in the house. They took aim at Boissy d'Anglas, who was occupying the president's chair, in place of Vernier. Feraud ran to the tribune, to shield him with his body; he was struck at with pikes and sabres, and fell dangerously wounded.
For many miles on both sides of the range the country is explored, and numberless cipher annotations are placed on the charts. Much care is taken in survey of streams and the location of springs. Oswald becomes greatly interested in this work, but asks only questions about technical parts. He learns much of triangulation and of aneroid computations. Vernier and arc readings become familiar.
They told him it would be a painful and injurious thing to the whole canton if a violent death were the result of this affair; they represented the pitiable distress of Madame Vernier, and conjured him to find some way to arrange matters and save the credit of the district. "I take it all upon myself," said the sagacious landlord.
"Who mean to win our tricks," said Vernier, long used to the ways of commercial travellers and to their periodical visits. "Precisely," replied Gaudissart, with native impudence. "But with your fine tact, Monsieur, you must be aware that we can't win tricks from people unless it is their interest to play at cards.
"What!" cried Vernier, delighted at the presence of an audience, "do you think we have no right to make fun of a man who comes here, bag and baggage, and demands that we hand over our property because, forsooth, he is pleased to call us great men, painters, artists, poets, mixing us up gratuitously with a set of fools who have neither house nor home, nor sous nor sense?
There is in this town a retired banker in whose wisdom I have I, particularly the greatest confidence. If you can obtain his support, I will add mine. When Madame Vernier heard the name of the lunatic she raised her head and looked at her husband. "Ah, precisely; my wife intends to call on Madame Margaritis with one of our neighbors.
This showed the course by the compass, and was expressed in degrees, minutes and seconds. The poor reading of a course is one of the frequent faults of new or careless engineers. "Here is a magnifier for the vernier," continued Rutter, just after Tom had started to make his reading.
Never before had the tragic event of a duel been so much as heard of in that benign and happy valley. "Monsieur Mitouflet, I am to fight to-morrow with Monsieur Vernier," said Gaudissart to his landlord. "I know no one here: will you be my second?" "Willingly," said the host.
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