Whew ! he whistled, softly; "that's curious. Same name as the lady at our place. Suppose he should be her husband. Holy moley, what a game. I've made a discovery.

Very remarkable, however, is the discovery that the apnoea-lengthening action of a maximal apnoea is already present after 10 sec. With 3 maximal apnoeae, with pauses of only 10 sec. each time, one nevertheless gets breath-holding times of, e.g., 79‒97‒102 sec.

I kicked the tires and then the salesperson invited me to take the car for a spin.

In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.