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The most hideous convicts are chosen, and those most corresponding in outward appearance to the favourite devils of the hierarchy, under whose names they pass in the workshops, where they commonly communicate with each other in the language of Volapuk.
You were going over to the Women's Laager. I'll walk with you, and say my say as I go. I'm on my way to Nordenfeldt Fort West. Something has gone wrong with the telephone-wire between there and Staff headquarters, and I can't get anything through but Volapuk or Esperanto. And those happen to be two of the languages I haven't studied."
Pure emotional movements of the spiritual nature, that is what I ask of music. Music will be the universal language, the Volapuk of spiritual being." "Angels sit down with their harps and play at each other, I suppose," said Number Seven. "Must have an atmosphere up there if they have harps, or they wouldn't get any music. Wonder if angels breathe like mortals?
You would begin to talk of scientific languages, of Esperanto, La Langue Bleue, New Latin, Volapuk, and Lord Lytton, of the philosophical language of Archbishop Whateley, Lady Welby's work upon Significs and the like.
Or, if we must talk, let it be in Latin, or in the 'Volapük' of myriad-meaning music; and let no man joke save in Greek that all may laugh. But, best of all, let us leave off talking altogether, and listen to the morning stars. As I waited for an omnibus at the corner of Fleet Street the other day, I was the spectator of a curious occurrence.
Pure emotional movements of the spiritual nature, that is what I ask of music. Music will be the universal language, the Volapuk of spiritual being." "Angels sit down with their harps and play at each other, I suppose," said Number Seven. "Must have an atmosphere up there if they have harps, or they wouldn't get any music. Wonder if angels breathe like mortals?
Transparent, similar to the diamond, and sparkling as is the fountain." The Volapuk of Mars. "I think," said a German enthusiast, "that it will be a universal language, the Volapuk of Mars, spoken by all the inhabitants of that planet." "But all these speculations," broke in Mr. Edison, "do not help you much.
It will all be done some day, all and that will justify the vein: "Omnia jam fieri quae posse negabam." My sample of Latin erudition was only understood by Major Noltitz, and I heard Caterna say to his wife: "That is volapuk." "There is no doubt," said Pan Chap, "that the Emperor of China has been well advised in giving his hand to the Russians instead of the English.
To some one overhearing them they might have been deemed as of unsound mind, though they were only talking in love's volapuk. They resembled each other, these two beings, as nearly in bodily fancies as in other ways.
Markus had got a job in a furniture store, where he spent his leisure hours studying Volapük, convinced as he was that all the nations of the earth would soon be using this great fraternal tongue. Theresa moved into the house on the Corn Market with as much peace and placidity as if she had been anticipating such a change for years.
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