Lorand shrugged his shoulders, then began to discuss scientific subjects.
"Does Dollond's telescope show stars in the Milky Way?"
"Yes, a million twinkling stars o'erspread the Milky Way, each several star a sun."
"Does it dissipate the mist in the head of the Northern Hound?"
"The mist remains as it was before—a round cloudy mass with a ring of mist around it."
"Perhaps Gregory's telescope, just arrived from Vienna, magnifies better?"
"Bring it here. Since its arrival there has been no clear weather, to enable us to make experiments with it."
Topándy gazed at the heavens through the new telescope with great interest.
"Ah," he remarked in a tone of surprise. "This is a splendid instrument; the star-mist thins, some tiny stars appear out of the ring."
"And the mass itself?"