Of course I can't help that, but what I was going to say was----" "If you are going to talk science, dear, perhaps we'd better sit on different chairs.

I may have been married for a hundred and fifty million miles, but the honeymoon isn't half way through yet, you know." Then there was another interlude of a few seconds' duration.

When Zaidie was seated beside her own telescope again, she said, after another glance at the splendid crescent which, as the _Astronef_ approached at a speed of over forty miles a second, increased in size and distinctness every moment: "What I mean is this.

All the authorities are agreed that on Venus, her axis of revolution being so very much inclined to the plane of her orbit, the seasons are so severe that half the year its temperate zone and its tropics have a summer about twice as hot as ours and the other half they have a winter twice as cold as our coldest.

I'm afraid, after all, we shall find the Love-Star a world of salamanders and seals; things that can live in a furnace and bask on an iceberg; and when we get back home it will be our painful duty, as the first explorers of the fields of Space, to dispel another dearly-cherished popular delusion." "I'm not so very sure about that," said Lenox, glancing from the rapidly growing crescent, to the sweet, smiling face beside him.