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At these words Gaudissart flew at the dyer to give him a slap on the face, but the listening crowd rushed between them, so that the illustrious traveller only contrived to knock off the wig of his enemy, which fell on the head of Mademoiselle Clara Vernier.
Seaton asked of the First of Mechanism, who had lifted himself up into the projector. "Very little. This motor governs the hour motion, that one the right ascension. The potentiometers regulate the degree of vernier action any ratio is possible, from direct drive up to more than a hundred million complete revolutions of that graduated dial to give you one second of arc." "Plenty fine, I'd say.
Gaudissart marched off, turning over in his mind this prophetic remark, which seemed to him full of sinister portent. For the first time in his life the prince of travellers did not dine jovially. The whole town of Vouvray was put in a ferment about the "affair" between Monsieur Vernier and the apostle of Saint-Simonism.
His ideas of liberty are such that, when he was a municipal officer, he signed a mandate of arrest against sixty-four individuals of both sexes, who were at a ball, because they had refused to invite to it one of his nieces. Abrial, Emmery, Vernier, and Lemercier are the other four members of that commission; of these, two are old intriguers, two are nullities, and all four are slaves.
James Lane Allen, the author of a series of refined and delicately worded romances, can write such phrases as "In a voice neither could scarce hear" and "Shake hands with me and tell me good-by." I know not whether the phrase "was graduated," applied not to a vernier, but to a student, be legitimate or not; it is certainly so used by the best American writers.
I have not had occasion to use this instrument in my own work, as a more simple, delicate, and efficient method was at my command, but for one measurement of convex surfaces I know of nothing that can take its place. I will briefly describe the method of using it. Still further refinement may be had by placing a vernier here.
Wait a moment, and you can accompany these ladies You can pick up Madame Fontanieu on your way," said the wily dyer, winking at his wife. To pick out the greatest gossip, the sharpest tongue, the most inveterate cackler of the neighborhood! It meant that Madame Vernier was to take a witness to the scene between the traveller and the lunatic which should keep the town in laughter for a month.
"Public business," answered Margaritis, interrupting him. "I pacificated Calabria under the reign of King Murat." "Bless me! if he hasn't gone to Calabria!" whispered Monsieur Vernier. "In that case," said Gaudissart, "we shall quickly understand each other." "I am listening," said Margaritis, striking the attitude taken by a man when he poses to a portrait-painter.
"Monsieur Margaritis," cried Madame Vernier, addressing him, "come, stir about! Here is a gentleman whom my husband sends to you, and you must listen to him with great attention. Put away your mathematics and talk to him." On hearing these words the lunatic rose, looked at Gaudissart, made him a sign to sit down, and said, "Let us converse, Monsieur."
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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