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`` And that is not all , '' said Angelo . `` A thing that is even more marvelous , perhaps , is the fact that the change takes note of longitude and fits itself to the meridian we are on . Luigi is in command this week . Now , if on Saturday night at a moment before midnight we could fly in an instant to a point fifteen degrees west of here , he would hold possession of the power another hour , for the change observes local time and no other . '' Betsy Hale was deeply impressed , and said with solemnity : `` Patsy Cooper , for detail it lays over the Passage of the Red Sea . '' `` Now , I should n't go as far as that , '' said Aunt Patsy , `` but if you 've a mind to say Sodom and Gomorrah , I am with you , Betsy Hale . '' `` I am agreeable , then , though I do think I was right , and I believe Parson Maltby would say the same .