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Thus there was a chance — in fact , there was a strong probability — that , at no epoch of my ascent , I should reach a point where the united weights of my immense balloon , the inconceivably rare gas within it , the car , and its contents , should equal the weight of the mass of the surrounding atmosphere displaced ; and this will be readily understood as the sole condition upon which my upward flight would be arrested . In the second what are we to think of such blunders , as " one of honest Vere 's classical jeti d'esprit , " ( the jeu d'esprit printed too in Long Primer Capitals ) in a volume professing to be Anecdote and Facete ( oh ! " Thrue for you , Sir Pathrick , " it said as plain as iver a squaze said in the world , " Thrue for you , Sir Pathrick , mavourneen , and it 's a proper nate gintleman ye are - - that 's God 's truth , " and with that she opened her two beautiful peepers till I belaved they wud ha ' cum 'd out of her hid althegither and intirely , and she looked first as mad as a cat at Mounseer Frog , and thin as smiling as all out o ' doors at mesilf . In recent weeks , the Iraq Study Group report and others have reiterated the ostensible link between events in Iraq and elsewhere in the region and the Israeli-Palestinian " peace process " . Frinchman , " and sure Mrs. Tracle , " says he , that he did , " is n't this gintleman here jist his reverence Sir Pathrick O'Grandison , Barronitt , and is n't he althegither and entirely the most particular frind and acquaintance that I have in the houl world ? " Wid that I giv 'd her a big wink jist to say , " lit Sir Pathrick alone for the likes o ' them thricks , " and thin I wint aisy to work , and you 'd have died wid the divarsion to behould how cliverly I slipped my right arm betwane the back o ' the sofy , and the back of her leddyship , and there , sure enough , I found a swate little flipper all a waiting to say , " the tip o ' the mornin ' to ye , Sir Pathrick O'Grandison , Barronitt . In the heated political and media environment currently surrounding contracting , many are terrified , believing mistakes get them pilloried while accomplishments are ignored . I soon found him of weak intellect , and , of course , marked him as a fitting subject for my skill .