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Although the Tsar had made trips with John Castellan in the _Flying Fish_, he had never had quite such an aerial experience as his trip to Greenwich. The _Auriole_ rose vertically in the air, soared upward in a splendid spiral curve, and vanished through the thin cloud layer to the north-eastward. Twenty minutes of wonder passed like so many seconds, and Admiral Hingeston, beside whom he was standing in the conning-tower, said quietly:
"We're about there, your Majesty."