Agnes Mary Clerke Quote

Comets encountering these precincts must be perplexed to decide between the two potentates claiming their allegiance, and perhaps on occasions pay their court to each in turns, throwing out tails, as they do so, in all sorts of anomalous and contradictory directions.

Of the nature of any planetary system round the double star Alpha Centauri; p. 168. - The System of the Stars (1890)