In the ordinary way the cry of a child is loud and distressing; it is for the good of the species that this should be so--but since he has been on the Herakleophorbia treatment---" "Mm," said Bensington, regarding his fingers with more resignation than he had hitherto displayed.
"Practically the thing _must_ come out.

People will hear of this child, connect it up with our hens and things, and the whole thing will come round to my wife....

How she will take it I haven't the remotest idea." "It _is_ difficult," said Mr.Bensington, "to form any plan--certainly." He removed his glasses and wiped them carefully.
"It is another instance," he generalised, "of the thing that is continually happening.

We--if indeed I may presume to the adjective--_scientific_ men--we work of course always for a theoretical result--a purely theoretical result.

But, incidentally, we do set forces in operation--_new_ forces.