268
SYLVIE AND BRUNO.
"How perfectly isochronous!" the Professor exclaimed with enthusiasm. He had his watch in his hand, and was carefully counting Bruno’s oscillations. "He measures time quite as accurately as a pendulum!"
"Yet even pendulums," the good-natured young soldier observed, as he carefully released his hand from Bruno’s grasp, "are not a joy for ever! Come, that’s enough for one bout, little man! Next time we meet, you shall have
