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Bannon had called in three laborers to man the rope; they stood at one side, awaiting the order to haul away. He found a block of wood, and set it against the box for a step. "This way, Miss Vogel," he called. "The elevator starts in a minute. You came pretty near being late." "Am I going to get in that?" she asked; and she looked up, with a little gasp, along the dwindling rope.
Such a lot of presents in our shoes on Christmas morning; such dinings and suppings, and musical parties! You must know every one sings here, the servants go singing about the house like nightingales, or sweeter than nightingales to my mind, like our dear "Kanarien Vogel."
You did you did!" "Well! I went to Vogel island; and here I am safe!" "It is you! We are together again!" she exclaimed now in full belief. "Thank God! Thank God!"
Instead of doing her housework herself, as, according to Frau Vogel, every self-respecting woman ought to do especially when she is in circumstances which do not permit much less excuse idleness she had hired a little servant, a girl of fifteen, who came in for a few hours in the morning to clean the rooms and look after the shop, while the young woman lay in bed or dawdled over her toilet.
This, in its turn, seemed to rouse the eider-ducks that thronged the island; and their clatter and commotion was so great overhead that any spectator might have been excused for believing that Vogel islet was indeed bewitched. "Humph!
The result showed that the blue end suffered far more than the red, absorption varying inversely as wave-length. This property of stopping predominantly the quicker vibrations is shared, as both Vogel and Langley have conclusively shown, by the solar atmosphere.
Professor Vogel, of Berlin, who himself saw part of the night-side of Venus, in its semi-obscurity in November, 1871, ascribed its visibility to a twilight effect caused by a very extensive atmosphere.
Naturgeschichte der Vögel Deutschlands, etc. As he is a very good climber, he describes rapid spirals around it, and the falcon cannot in flying trace such small circles. By this method the Colaptes usually escapes. Audubon, Ornithological Biography, New York and Edinburgh, 1831-49. The Fox, who is so ingenious in hunting, is not less so when his own safety is concerned.
Such were Dimmler the musician and his wife, Vogel the dancing master and his family, Belova, an old maiden lady, an inmate of the house, and many others such as Petya's tutors, the girls' former governess, and other people who simply found it preferable and more advantageous to live in the count's house than at home.
There was the picture, a sketch in oils of the best-known model in Dåsseldorf, this time rigged out as a Roman peasant. The girl looked at the picture with a frown; she seized it as though she would dash it on the floor in scorn, but, checking the impulse, she carried it to Fräulein Vogel. The successful painter looked at the sketch in silence for a full minute, holding it off at arm's length.
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