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He answered not a word, and gave the signal for a start.
"No doubt," answered my uncle.
"Well," answered the Professor, after a rapid calculation, "I infer that we have gone eighty-five leagues since we started."
"Yes, I am still alive," I answered feebly.
All the while I was overwhelming him with questions which he answered readily.
"Then let us go," I answered quickly.
"So then, thus far," he answered, "the theory of Sir Humphry Davy is confirmed."
"Yes," answered the Professor laughing.
Then we had cleared two hundred and seventy leagues of sea, and we were six hundred leagues from Iceland.""Very well," answered my uncle; "let us start from that point and count four days' storm, during which our rate cannot have been less than eighty leagues in the twenty-four hours."
"No," replied my uncle, "that is impossible--quite impossible!""Yet," I answered, feeling the wall, "this well is burning hot."
"Nor that either," he answered.
It is time that you kept your promise and gave me a full account of what we are all driving at.""Your request is a very reasonable one," Holmes answered.
"And yet it was not entirely a question of imagination," I answered.
"There are only two women in the house, Sir Henry," he answered.
An expression of irresolution passed for an instant over her face, but her eyes had hardened again when she answered me.
That seemed to make the matter no better, so then I lost my temper too, and I answered him rather more hotly than I should perhaps, considering that she was standing by.
I meekly answered that I had spoken without knowing all the facts.
"There is but one place where he can have fled," she answered.
"To-morrow," he answered.
Her great figure danced about with a wonderful lightness, and she tossed her head and pouted her lips as she answered back to the old, bent figure that addressed her.
Put them at four pounds apiece to me, and what will the seventy bring?""Two hundred and eighty pounds," I answered.
"I had hoped that it was from Lord Nelson," answered my father.
'The captain,' said he.'And what would you have had if you had struck him dead?' said I.'The yard-arm,' he answered.
"You'd have made a right good foretopman if your heart is as stout as your fingers are quick," said he."Did you never wish to have the honour of serving your country?""It is my honour, sir, to serve Sir Charles Tregellis, and I desire no other master," he answered.
You have heard how he returned the money which we had lost?""Nay, I have heard nothing of it," my father answered.
We shall see what Stultz or Weston can do for him," my uncle answered.
"On how much, sir," asked my father, "can a young man dress in town?""With prudence and reasonable care, a young man of fashion can dress upon eight hundred a year," my uncle answered.
"It should be the longest bench in the world, Sherry," answered the Prince, "for a good many of his subjects will want seats on it.
"I'll take you another hundred that we pass you," answered my uncle.
"I think not," answered my uncle.
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