Chapter 7 Chapter VII Aristobulus Ursy Claus

Although Oban attracts sea bathers to its beaches, making it as crowded as Brighton, Margat or Ramsgate, it is A man of such talent as Aristobulus Ursyklaus could not fail to attract attention. Oban, at a different latitude from its rivals, is a seaside town that appeals to the idle minds of the United Kingdom.Its location in the Strait of Mull protects Kerrere from direct winds from the westerly winds, making it a magnet for expats.Some of them come to take a dip in the wholesome sea water; others live here, and use it as a center to follow the radial route to Glasgow, according to the strangest and rarest islands in Ness and the Hebrides. islands.One more thing to add: Oban, like some other thalassotherapy resorts, is not at all the kind of medical place where most people who think of it for the hot season are healthy, not like in some other water towns where people have to deal with two sick people , Playing cards together.

Orban's history is less than one hundred and fifty years old.In urban planning, the house layout is neat, the streets are open, and it has a modern atmosphere.However, the church is a Norman-style building with a very elegant bell tower on top.The ancient castle of Durole is covered with ivy, and the main building of the castle stands on a rock.The colorful villas and white houses are distributed step by step along the hills behind, and finally the calm water in the bay with several beautiful yachts floating on the water, all of which constitute a charming scene. In August of this year, there were not many foreign tourists and sea bathers who came to the small town of Oban.In the register of one of the finest hotels in the town it has been possible to find for weeks in a row the more or less eminent name of Aristobulus Ursy Claus, of Dumfries (Lowlands, Scotland). ).

The twenty-eight-year-old "big shot" never looked young, and probably never looked old.He must have been born when he was supposed to be born, with neither good looks nor bad looks, a face with no merit, blond hair too dark for a man; glassy near-sighted eyes behind spectacles; Short, doesn't seem to be part of his face.According to the latest statistics, out of the 130,000 hairs on the average person's head, there are only 60,000 hairs left on his head.Whiskers framed his cheeks and chin--it gave his face a monkeyish look.If he had been a monkey he would have been a good one—perhaps just the kind of monkey between man and beast that Darwin's followers lacked in their evolutionary charts.

Aristobulus Ursyklaus had plenty of money as well as ideas.He was too educated for a young scholar and only knew how to use his vast knowledge to make things difficult for others.He is a graduate of Oxford University and Edinburgh University.He has more knowledge of physics, chemistry, astronomy and mathematics than literature.In fact, he was so pretentious that he was almost an idiot.His chief idiosyncrasy, or rather his obsession, was to give random explanations of the most natural things; in short he was a pedant, a tiresome communicator.People don't laugh at him because he's not worth it, but maybe they laugh at him because he's funny.No one deserved the Masonic motto of England more than this young man of vanity: Audi, vide, tace.He doesn't listen to anything, he doesn't look at anything, and he never shuts up.In a word, to borrow an apt comparison to Walter Scott's country, Aristobulus Ursyklaus and his practical industrialist ideas are always reminiscent of Justice Nicholas Cole Jarvie, not his poet cousin Rob-Roy MacGregor.What girl in the Highlands, including Miss Campbell, would prefer Nicole Jarvie to Rob-Roy?

This is Aristobulus Ursy Claus.How could the Melville brothers have taken such a fancy to the pedant that they wanted him to be their niece and son-in-law?How did he please these two respectable sixty-year-olds?Maybe it's just that he was the first person to tell them both that he had such a heart for their niece.In a sort of innocent ecstasy, Sam and Seabuck might have said: "Look, a rich young man, of distinguished birth, entitled to the inheritance left to him by his parents and other relations, and with an extraordinary education! It would be wonderful for our dear Helena The marriage partner! This marriage is unique and matched, because he makes us feel very suitable!"

Then the two of them took a good pinch of snuff, and then closed their common snuffbox with a crisp sound, as if to say: "It's settled like this!" The Melville brothers thought they had done a perfect job.Thanks to this outlandish green-light fantasy that brought Miss Campbell to Oban.Here, as if nothing had been arranged beforehand, she would resume with Aristobulus Ursyklaus the intercourse which had so often been interrupted by her absence. The Helensburgh cottages of the Melville brothers and Miss Campbell had been exchanged for the finest suites at the Caledonian Hotel.If their trip at Oban were to be prolonged, it might be better to hire a villa on a high point overlooking the town; but these days, under the good care of Lady Bess and Partridge, everyone was in Mike's house. Boss Finn's hotel is very comfortable, and we'll talk about that later.

The lobby of the Caledonian Hotel is built on the beach, almost directly opposite the barrier jetty. At nine o'clock the morning after their arrival, the Melville brothers emerged from the hall.Miss Campbell was still resting in her room on the second floor, not expecting at all that her two uncles were going to see Aristobulus Urseyklaus. The two, who were never apart, walked down the beach, knowing that their "suitor" was staying at a hotel on the north side of the bay, which they passed by. There must be some premonition guiding them.In fact, ten minutes after they set out they ran into Aristobulus Ursyklaus, who was taking his scientific walk every morning on the last tide.He shook hands with them in a completely mechanical, stylized way.

"Mr. Ursey Cross!" said Brother Melville. "Mr. Melville!" returned Aristobulus in a tone of mock surprise. "Mr. Melville... here... at Aubain?" "Arrived last night!" said Sam. "It's a pleasure to see you look so well, Mr. Ursey Claus," said Sebb. "Ah, yes, gentlemen—perhaps you already know the news of the arrival?" "Flash?" said Sam. "Has the Gladstone Cabinet already...?" "It has nothing to do with the Gladstone Ministry," replied Aristotle Urseyklaus, somewhat haughtily, "it's a weather report."

"Ah, really!" cried the two uncles. "Yes, it says that the Swinemunde low pressure has shifted northward and formed a distinct cavity, the center of which has reached near Stockholm today, and the barometer has dropped by an inch, or twenty-five millimeters—if the usual scholarly In decimal terms - it's only twenty-eight and six tenths of an inch, or seven hundred and twenty-six millimetres. Although the air pressure has changed little in England and Scotland, it dropped yesterday in Valentia down a tenth, down two tenths in Stornoway." "So this low pressure..." asked Sam.

"What's going to happen?" Sibb added. "The good weather will not last any longer," replied Aristobulus Ursyklaus, "soon the south-west will blow and bring us the fogs of the North Atlantic." The Melville brothers thanked the young scholar for telling them these interesting predictions, and deduced from this that the green light might make people wait a few more days-which they did not regret very much-because such a delay would prolong their work. The duration of Oban's stay. "Gentlemen, are you here for...?" asked Aristobulus Ursyklaus, picking up a piece of flint and examining it with great attention.

The two uncles tried to avoid interfering with his research.After the flint had enriched the pockets of the young scholar, Sibb said: "Of course we're here planning to stay for a while." "We have to add," said Sam, "Miss Campbell is with us..." "Ah! . . . Miss Campbell!" said Aristobulus Urseyklaus, "—I think this flint is Gaelic, and has some marks on it . . . In fact, I will Very glad to see Miss Campbell again! . . . Some traces of meteorites—this weather, very mild, must do her good." "She's in great shape," Sam reminded. "She doesn't need to recover at all." "Never mind," went on Aristobulus Ursyklaus, "the air here is excellent, 0.21 oxygen, 0.79 nitrogen, plus a healthy amount of moisture, As for carbonic acid, there is hardly any. I analyze it every morning." Brother Melville wished he would be extra careful about Miss Campbell's address. "But," asked Aristobulus Urseyklaus, "since you have not come here for physical reasons, may I know, gentlemen, why you have left Helensburgh cottage?" "Of course we have nothing to hide from you, but in view of our present situation..." replied Sieb. "May I, on this trip," interrupted the young scholar, "have a natural opportunity for me and Miss Campbell to get to know each other better, that is to say, to meet under mutual admiration?" Woolen cloth?" "Of course," replied Sam, "we've thought about it, and we'll get there more quickly that way." "I agree with you, sir," said Aristobulus Ursey Claus, "in this public place, Miss Campbell and I, when we have the opportunity to talk about the undulation of the sea, the direction of the wind. , wave heights, changes in tides, and other physical phenomena that would be of great interest to her." The Melville brothers exchanged a satisfied smile and nodded their approval.They said they would be more than happy to receive their guests in a more formal capacity when they returned to their Helensburgh cottage. Aristobulus Ursey Krauss said he would be happier now that the government is embarking on a major dredging of the Clyde, specifically between Helensburgh and Greenock ——This project is carried out under the new conditions of using electric power equipment.Then as soon as he lives in the villa, he can observe the progress of the project and calculate the possible benefits.The Melville brothers kept admitting how helpful this coincidence was to their plans.When there was nothing to do at the villa, the young scholar could follow the different stages of this profitable project. "But," asked Aristobulus Ursey Claus, "you must have made up some pretense for coming here, and Miss Campbell probably didn't expect to meet me at Aubain." Sib Answered: "In fact, this excuse was provided by Miss Campbell herself." "Ah!" exclaimed the young scholar, "what excuse?" "A physical phenomenon, which occurs under certain conditions, Helensburg does not have." These conditions." "Really, gentlemen," answered Aristobulus Urseyklaus, adjusting his spectacles, "that just shows the resemblance between me and Miss Campbell! I May I know what kind of phenomenon it is that cannot be studied at the villa?" "It's just a green light phenomenon," Sam replied. "Green light?" said Aristobulus Ursyklaus in great amazement. "I've never heard of it! If I dare ask, what is a green light?" The Melville brothers explained as well as they could. What is going on with this phenomenon, and how the Morning Post has just alerted readers to it. "Alas!" sighed Aristobulus Ursyklaus, "it is but a worthless curiosity, a child's amusing physics!" "Miss Campbell is only a girl," replied Sibb, "and she seems to be very concerned about this phenomenon, even a little too concerned..." "Because she said that before she saw the green light, she wasn't going to get married," Sam said. "Then, gentlemen," replied Aristobulus Ulysses Claus, "will let her see the green light she thinks of." Then the three returned to the Caledonian Hotel together along the path on the grass by the beach. Aristobulus Urseyklaus would not miss the opportunity of making the Melville brothers realize how shallow and shallow a woman's mind is.He deduced succinctly what was needed to improve their half-understood education.Their brains were less intelligent than men's, and the structure of their lobes was very different, and he didn't think they could be highly speculative!Let’s not talk about this, maybe people can transform it through special training, although since there are women in this world, no woman can be like Aristotle, Euclid, Erwin, Harder Like Mann, Pascal, Newton, Laplace, Arago, Humpbreydary, Edison, Pasteur, these men became famous through their great discoveries.Later they indulged in explanations of different physical phenomena and talked about deomairescibili instead of Miss Campbell. The Melville brothers listened reverently--so willingly, they couldn't get in a word, and Aristobulus Ursyklaus hummed now and then in his chapterless monologue!snort!The voice is used to express emphasis, domineering and seems to be teaching people. In this way they came to a hundred paces from the Caledonian Hotel, and stopped for a moment to say good-bye to each other. At this moment a young girl was standing in front of the window of her room.She seemed very busy, even a little flustered.She stared ahead for a while, looked to the right for a while, and looked to the left for a while, as if she was searching for a sea level she couldn't see with her eyes. Suddenly Miss Campbell—it was she—saw her uncles.Soon the window was slammed shut, and a moment later she was on the beach, her arms half folded, her expression serious, her brow furrowed in reproach. The Melville brothers looked at each other. Who was Helena resenting?Was it not the presence of Aristobulus Ursyklaus that caused this abnormal hyperarousal? Instead, the young scholar went up to meet her and saluted Miss Campbell stiffly. "Mr. Aristobulus Ursy Claus..." Sam introduced slightly politely. "Yes, what a coincidence... also in Oban!..." added Sieb. "...Mr. Ursey Cross?" Miss Campbell greeted him reluctantly. Then she turned to the Melville brothers, who were too embarrassed to know what to do. "Uncle?" she said seriously. "Dear Helena," said the uncles, obviously concerned. "Are we at Oban?" she asked. "Yes, at Oban." "On the Hebrides coast?" "That's right." "Then we won't be here in an hour!" "After an hour?" "Did I ask you about sea level?" "Yes, my dear boy..." "Can you show me where it is?" Dumbfounded, the Melville brothers turned away. In front of you, no matter whether it is southwest or northwest, there is no sea level where water and sky meet between the islands.The islands of Sayre, Kerrere, and Keysmore formed a continuous barrier from one point to the other.Suffice it to say, the sea level she demanded and they guaranteed did not exist in Oban's landscape. The brothers, who hadn't noticed this while walking on the beach, let out two sighs expressing their genuine disappointment, laced with overwhelming frustration: "Hey!" one sighed. "Hush!" replied another.

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