After all, I'm not particularly sorry, because then it wouldn't have belonged to me.

Well now, Captain, I'm going to ask you to give me a bit of breakfast when it's ready, and then I must be off.

I want to be in Washington to-night." "To-night! What, twenty-one hundred miles!" "Why not ?" said Redgrave; "I can do about a hundred and fifty an hour through the atmosphere, and then, you see, if that isn't fast enough I can rise outside the earth's attraction, let it spin round, and then come down where I want to." "Great Scott!" remarked Captain Hawkins inadequately, but with emphasis.
"Well, my Lord, I guess we'll go down to breakfast." But breakfast was not quite ready, and so Lord Redgrave rejoined Miss Rennick and her chaperon on deck.

All eyes and a good many glasses were still turned on the _Astronef_, which had now moved a few feet away from the liner's side, and was running along, exactly keeping pace with her.
"It's so wonderful, that even seeing doesn't seem believing," said the girl, when they had renewed their acquaintance of two years before.
"Well," he replied, "it would be very easy to convince you.

She shall come alongside again, and if you and Mrs.Van Stuyler will honour her by your presence for half an hour while breakfast is getting ready, I think I shall be able to convince you that she is not the airy fabric of a vision, but simply the realisation in metal and glass and other things of visions which your father saw some years ago." There was no resisting an invitation put in such a way.