"And why, Professor Smith," said Burns imitating a heavy official
voice, "have you alone retained your faculties?"
"Because, dear sir," Lee answered in David Adam Smith's thin voice,
"I never admit more than three hundred students to the Institute. And
because apparently I have the only mind capable of absorbing the weight
of modern knowledge without much strain."
"You do not dislike yourself, Professor."
"I give credit where it is due, dear sir." Lee stopped and continued in
his normal voice. "The trouble is, he _does_ produce the stuff. He's
supposed to be a geologist, but there hasn't been an invention for the
last decade that he didn't master-mind."
"Pity he can't think of some way of speeding up the emigration," John
said. "If only we could leave Earth!"
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