Gazen

"Gazen," said I that night as soon as I had a convenient opportunity to speak with him, "I have married Alumion."

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"Oh, she is constant to her lord the sun," rejoined Gazen.

A Trip to Venus John Munro 1889

As yet I had not mentioned my adventure with Alumion to any of my companions, but that night I said to Gazen, as we smoked our cigars together,

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I know not what folly I might have spoken had not the conversation been interrupted by Gazen, who called out in his unromantic style,

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Gazen was evidently in his own element, and began a long lecture on the constitution of the universe, which appeared to interest Miss Carmichael very much.

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From some experiments made by Gazen, it would appear that while their senses of sight and touch are keener, their senses of hearing and also of heat are rather blunter than ours.

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"Is there anything wrong, Carmichael?" asked Gazen through the speaking tube.

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Had Gazen and Miss Carmichael not committed the same blunder, and suffered a like fate?

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"That's a good sign," said Gazen with a grim smile.

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"What I say is true," cried Gazen, nettled at this rude insinuation.

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