Guinea Girl
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Guinea Girl: A Melodrama in Three Acts, Together With the Incidental, Music, Here Presented for the Entertainment of the Curious "Venus," said the Astronomer at breakfast, "has a satellite." "I wish," said the wife of the Astronomer, "that you wouldn´t dip your toast in your coffee like that. It´s so messy. There, you´ve made three drops on the tablecloth already - and it´s dripping on your coat now. If you must soak your toast in your coffee, why don´t you use the spoon? This cloth has only been on the table for three days, and...." "My dear, you don´t understand. This is the greatest discovery.... A revolution, my dear. I shall be remembered.... Cassini was right, after all. Belopolsky is a bungler and Schiaparelli a fool. I shall be known.... ´Bellamy´s Satellite´! I must write to the Times at once." "That tablecloth was clean on Tuesday - and look at it now!" But Horace Bellamy had no mind for tablecloths, and the only spots that he knew of were to be seen (through a tube) many million miles away upon the sun, upon migratory planets and upon fixed stars. "I must write to the Times about it," he repeated. He stared at the bacon on his plate, which had grown cold with neglect, with unseeing eyes. "I had better run up to town to-morrow and see Gresson: I must catch the 8.31. My dear, I shall want breakfast to-morrow at 7.30. It is most important that I should...." "Your bacon´s getting cold," said Mrs. Bellamy. Paul said nothing. He ate his egg very slowly and between mouthfuls gazed wide-eyed out of the window. The beech tree at the end of the lawn was all green and gold in the spring sunshine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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