At the intersection of two broad avenues Vas Kor descended from the street level to one of the great pneumatic stations of the city.
"Now fetch me the Heliumetic metal you wrought some days since," commanded Vas Kor.
Vas Kor's destination lay in Greater Helium, which lies some seventy-five miles across the level plain from Lesser Helium.
There was an instant of whizzing--a soft, though sudden, stop, and slowly the carrier emerged upon another platform, another attendant raised the lid and Vas Kor stepped out at the station beneath the centre of Greater Helium, seventy-five miles from the point at which he had embarked.
“Ant vere vas olt Fritz Hartmann?” said the German, reproachfully;
“I telt yon vat, gal!” said the old German, good-humoredly ; “if I vas as I vas ven I servit mit his grand-fader on ter lakes, ter lazy tog shouldn’t vin ter prize as for nottin’.”
If I could haf known it
vas like dis, I vould never haf come for such money as you gif me." At this moment she chanced to look round, and saw Jurgis: She shook her finger at him.
The perfect swarm of busily engaged persons moving about noiselessly; the multitude of guests, - who were, however, even less numerous than the servants who waited on them, - the myriad of exquisitely prepared dishes, of gold and silver
vases; the floods of dazzling light, the masses of unknown flowers of which the hot-houses had been despoiled, redundant with luxuriance of unequaled scent and beauty; the perfect harmony of the surroundings, which, indeed, was no more than the prelude of the promised fete , charmed all who were there; and they testified their admiration over and over again, not by voice or gesture, but by deep silence and rapt attention, those two languages of the courtier which acknowledge the hand of no master powerful enough to restrain them.
The rest of the furniture of this privileged apartment consisted of old cabinets, filled with Chinese porcelain and Japanese
vases, Lucca della Robbia faience, and Palissy platters; of old arm-chairs, in which perhaps had sat Henry IV.
As for the book-binder's whale winding like a vine-stalk round the stock of a descending anchor --as stamped and gilded on the backs and title-pages of many books both old and new --that is a very picturesque but purely fabulous creature, imitated, I take it, from the like figures on antique
vases. Though universally denominated a dolphin, I nevertheless call this book-binder's fish an attempt at a whale; because it was so intended when the device was first introduced.
Odd
vases made by his own hand from the clay of the region held beautiful tropical flowers.
So the two went to the dressing-room of the Princess and searched carefully in every corner and among the
vases and baskets and ornaments that stood about the pretty boudoir.
The top was ornamented by vases, candelabra, and statuettes, in pairs, placed in a row.
'To Major Fitz-David, with two vases. From his friends, S.
Was one of those two vases the vase that had been broken?
