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For five or six years before his experiments with the aeroplane he had made a great many flights in balloons, and also in dirigible balloons. He was the son of well-to-do parents his father was a successful coffee planter and he had ample means to carry on his costly experiments. Flying was Santos Dumont's great hobby.
"Not come down? Then will you please call her, Maggie?" The Baroness was always polite to her servants. She had observed that a graciousness of speech toward her servants often made up for a deficiency in wages. Maggie ascended to Miss Dumont's room, and returned with the information that Miss Dumont had a severe headache, and begged the indulgence of madame this morning.
But of all the cowards that stand sentinel for capital, the most craven is Confidence. At the deafening crash of the fall of Dumont's private character, Confidence girded its loins and tightened its vocal cords to be in readiness for a shrieking flight.
He reminded her of Dumont there was the same look of superiority, of the "born to lead." But his face seemed to, have some quality which Dumont's lacked or was it only the idealizing effect of the open sky and the evening light? When the bell rang for supper he apparently did not hear it.
I also replied to the objections which had been made to some of his doctrines by reviewers of Dumont's book, and added a few supplementary remarks on some of the more abstract parts of the subject, such as the theory of improbability and impossibility.
General de Wimpffen averred that the 1st corps would look out for the position at Illy, and indeed a regiment of zouaves was presently seen to occupy the Calvary, so that General Douay, his anxiety being relieved on that score, sent Dumont's division to the assistance of the 12th corps, which was then being hard pushed.
But important though Santos Dumont's experiments were with the air-ship, they were of even greater value when he turned his attention to the aeroplane. One of his first trials with a heavier-than-air machine was made with a huge glider, which was fitted with floats.
In the first hour of the day of the raid Giddings and the other members of Dumont's supporting group of financiers were able to keep it fairly steady at about five points below the closing price of the previous day, by buying all that was offered the early offerings were large, but not overwhelming.
"All I want is five hundred thousand to carry my copper for a week at the outside. If I get it I'll clear a million. If I don't" Fanshaw shrugged his shoulders "I'll be cleaned out." He looked with narrowed, shifting eyes at Dumont. "My wife has all she's got in this," he went on, "even her jewels." Dumont's look shot straight into Fanshaw's. "Not a cent!" he said with vicious emphasis.
In Works, vi. 205-6, he quotes Dumont's Bentham; but his general silence is the more significant, as in the lectures on Political Economy he makes frequent and approving reference to Bentham's tract upon usury. Works, vii. 236-38. Ibid. vi. 221. Works, vi. 213. Ibid. vi. 199. Works, vi. 111. Works, v. 117 18.
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