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Even the railway station was closed, and the empty cars stood, locked, on the side- tracks. It was strangely silent. I don't know how many people there are at Voisins. I hear that there is no one at Quincy. As for Huiry? Well, our population everyone accounted for before the mobilization was twenty-nine. The hamlet consists of only nine houses. Today we are six grown people and seven children.
Couldn't you go on a lark without telling the Captain about it, and getting us all into trouble?" To make this all the funnier, that very night three horses stabled in a rickety barn at Voisins, kicked their door down, and pranced and neighed under the Captain's bedroom window. The Captain is a nice chap, but he is not in his first youth, and he is tired, and, well he is a bit nervous.
We were so cold that finally the whole regiment had to dismount and proceed on foot in the hope of warming up a bit. We were all, in the end, sad, cross, and grumbly. You had spoiled us all at Huiry and Voisins. For my part I longed to curse someone for having ordered such a change of base as this, in such weather.
There is a lad at the foot of the hill, in Voisins, who was married just before the war. He has a tiny house of two rooms and kitchen which he bought just before his marriage for the sum of one hundred and fifty francs less than thirty dollars. He paid a small sum down, and the rest at the rate of twenty cents a week.
At Voisins to-day the bill of fare was ass, horse, and English wolf from the Zoological Garden. A Scotchman informed me that this latter was a fox of his native land, and patriotically gorged himself with it. I tried it, and not being a Scotchman, found it horrible, and fell back upon the patient ass.
Why should it be? said Ursula. 'Il faut avoir le respect de ses btises, said Birkin. 'But you needn't have the respect for the BETISE before you've committed it, laughed Ursula. 'Ah then, des betises du papa? 'Et de la maman, added Gudrun satirically. 'Et des voisins, said Ursula. They all laughed, and rose. It was getting dark. They carried the things to the car.
"Of course, you know," she added, "that every one has left Couilly; all the shops are closed, and nearly every one has gone from Voisins and Quincy. The mayor's wife left last night. Before going she came to us and advised us to escape at once, and even found us a horse and cart the trains are not running.
The Voisins, like the Wrights, based their designs largely on the experimental work of Lilienthal, Langley, Chanute, and others, though they also carried out tests on the lifting properties of aerofoils in a wind tunnel of their own. Their first machines, like those of Santos-Dumont, showed the effects of experimenting with box-kites, some of which they had built for M. Ernest Archdeacon in 1904.
With the biplane the Voisins built him, for example, nothing but his own determination, and his ceaseless work upon his engine, enabled him to do more with this type of machine than others had done.
“Il ne peut y avoir qu’une méthode parfaite, qui est la méthode naturelle; on nomme ainsi un arrangement dans lequel les êtres du même genre seraient plus voisins entre eux que ceux de tous les autres genres; les genres du même ordre, plus que ceux de tous les autres ordres; et ainsi de suite.
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