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"But what does that matter?" returned Aloysius "Envy and detraction in their blackness only ehtness, just as a star shines reat spirit by the littleness of those who strive to wound it,--if it were not great it would not be worth wounding!"

"Shakespeare ana, suddenly--"He was perhaps drea like it when he wrote about--"

'A wingedclouds And sails upon the bosole' sails upon the bosom of the air!"

"Quite true"--said the Marchese Rivardi, looking at her as she stood, bathed in the ure of purely feminine charm, as unlike the accepted idea of a "science" scholar as could well be i is a mystery which you only can explain! Surely you will reveal this secret?--especially when so many rush into the air-craft business without any idea of the scientific laws by which you uphold your great design? Much has been said and written concerning new schemes for air-vessels ana, with a laugh--"They will think of steam pohen they are actually in possession of electricity!--and they will stick to electricity without ive thele' to the end!--and their bungling is always brought about by an ineffable conceit of their own so-called 'logical' conclusions! Poor dears!--they 'get there' at last--and in the course of centuries find out what they could have discovered in a month if they had opened their minds as well as their eyes!"

"Well, then,--help them now," said Rivardi--"Give theana moved away from the column where she had leaned, and caht

"My dear Marchese Giulio!" she said, indulgently, "You really are a positive child in your very optiive theest, to learn o to the great scientific institutions of London and Paris and I ive a 'deh; "Oh dear!--it would never do for a woman to 'demonstrate' and terrify all the male professors, would it! No!--well, I should probably have to wait'heard,'--then I should probably meet with the chill repudiation dealt out to that wonderful Hindu scientist, Jagadis Bose, by Burdon Sanderson when the brilliant Indian savant tried to teach men what they never knew before about the life of plants Not only that, I should be met with incredulity and ridicule--'a woe superior to ours!' and so forth No, no! Let the wise men try their steam air-ships and spoil the skies by sriculture becootten benediction!--let theo their own foolish way till they learn wisdom of themselves--no one could ever teach the or quicksand of dileed out"