I think his manners were about equal to -- ---'s, as occasionally he yelled and was told to be quiet.
"About ten o'clock M.Leverrier asked me to go into the observatory, which connects with the dwelling.

They are building immense additional rooms, and are having a great telescope, twenty-seven feet in focal length, constructed.
"With Leverrier's bad English and my bad French we talked but little, but he showed me the transit instrument, the mural circle, the computing-room, and the private office.

He put on his cloak and cap, and said, 'Voila le directeur!' "One room, he told me, had been Arago's, and Arago had his bed on one side.

M.Leverrier said, 'I do not wish to have it for my room.' He is said to be much opposed to Arago, and to be merciless towards his family.
"He showed me another room, intended for a reception-room, and explained to me that in France one had to make science come into social life, for the government must be reached in order to get money.
"There were huge globes in one room that belonged to Cassini.

If what he showed me is not surpassed in the other rooms, I don't think much of their instruments.
"M.