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The Lord of the Sea

Chapter 8 - THE METEOR

Word Count: 704    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

wn old Thring Street, and spent a penny for a note

or under the projecting first-floor of the paper-s

RTH IN

PERISH

ng in the street over a pa

net or aerolite of abnormal size. It was sighted at a point two degrees W. of a Librae at an angle of 43 1/2° with the horizon, and had been photographed, its ele

led planet was merely a meteor-not more than 400 yards in diameter, with a low velocity of two miles a second; and its distance was less than a tenth of that estimated

thy, saw six signatures; and a young man who came about six P.M. to sign, cried out: "Hullo! the book is filled up!" on which Hogarth ran

t Lagden, when we were leaving?" she asked; on which he th

cottage, from out of which were coming screams-a woman's; and he ran in, f

gured about the face, whereupon Bates was arrested, and Hogarth,

s at the old farm-ho

he saw Mr. Bond, his two daughters, his servants, grouped round an optic tube mounted on a tripod. He asked permission to get the account-boo

herea

the naked eye yet: b

he sight, turning the adjuster; the

an eager eye

, sir, that a splinter of her may fall into your back yard-not too big a one! but a nice little comfortable piece"-he rubbed his palms-"for you know, no doubt, of what her substance is compose

whispere

ger than was modest he stopped there, gazing, then ran, wondering at her d

display soon after eleven t

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