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"There are several well known methods of approaching this problem," replied Barbican; "and as these methods, though founded on different principles, bring us constantly to the same result, we may pretty safely conclude that our calculations are right. We have no time, just now to draw diagrams, but, if I express myself clearly, you will no doubt easily catch the general principle."
"How about being ahead of time?" asked the Captain. "Just so!" said Ardan. "You know we have discovered the initial velocity to have been greater than was expected." "Not at all! not at all!" cried Barbican "A slight excess of velocity would have done no harm whatever had the direction of the Projectile been perfectly true. No. There must have been a digression. We must have been switched off!"
Do you mean to say you understand the terrible jargon, Captain?" "Nothing is clearer, Ardan." "You too, Captain! Then of course I must give in gracefully, and declare that the sun at noon-day is not more palpably evident than the sense of Barbican's formula." "You asked for Algebra, you know," observed Barbican. "Rock crystal is nothing to it!"
This we can easily verify for ourselves this moment by actual experiment." "Not just now exactly," observed Barbican, "for the solar rays, striking our Projectile directly, would give us a very elevated instead of a very low temperature.
MacNicholl!" He listens anxiously for a reply. None comes. A snow-wrapt grave at midnight is not more silent. In vain does he try to catch even the faintest sound of breathing, though he listens intently enough to hear the beating of their hearts; but he hears only his own. "Call that roll again!" he mutters in a voice far less assured than before; "Barbican! MacNicholl!"
The besiegers turned two of their slinging engines on this monster, and kept constantly slinging smaller stones on to the platform of the barbican, and killed two of the engineers. But the Turk disdained to retort.
Quickly she hastened to the outer barbican that it might be she who answered their hail rather than one of the men-at-arms on watch there. She had scarcely reached the ramparts of the outer gate ere the King's men drew rein before the castle. In reply to their hail, Joan de Tany asked their mission. "We seek the outlaw, Norman of Torn, who hides now within this castle," replied the officer.
"Ardan," interrupted Barbican, "after a very little while we shall have plenty of time for philosophical disputations. Just now let us think of something far more pressing." "More pressing! what do you mean? are we not fully prepared?" "Yes, fully prepared, as far at least as we have been able to foresee.
"Now I understand why the poor Captain made me no reply all the time, and looked at me with such a hapless woe-begone expression of countenance. The fact is, Barbican, that shock was too much both for M'Nicholl and myself. You are the only man among us whose head is fire-proof, blast-proof, and powder-proof.
It is built, architecturally considered, in the form of an irregular triangular court quite unique with the old barbican at the lower end; the chapel wing directly opposite; the ruins of the old castle on the left, keep and all, and the new house that is actually lived in on the right. Fortunately, however, ivy has since covered the greater part of its exterior.
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