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1 I | artillery.~“This is horrible!” said Tom Hunter one evening,
2 I | Those days are gone by,” said jolly Bilsby, trying to
3 I | the colonel.~“Quite so,” said J. T. Matson; “but still
4 II | I have now enumerated,” said Barbicane, “the experiments
5 II | Every intelligent being,’ said the geometrician, ‘must
6 II | graver voice.~“You know,” said he, “what progress artillery
7 III | thing with them is no sooner said than done.~The triumphal
8 IV | Answer.— After what has been said above, it will be necessary,
9 VI | Cambridge Observatory had said all that was to be said
10 VI | said all that was to be said in this respect. Every one
11 VI | moon. They had heard it said that, according to observations
12 VII | president himself.~“Gentlemen,” said he, “we have to resolve
13 VII | been granted, “Gentlemen,” said he with an inspired accent, “
14 VII | sandwiches before him.~“And now,” said Barbicane, “let us quit
15 VII | employing?”~“Simply cast iron,” said General Morgan.~“But,” interrupted
16 VII | frequently appeared, he presently said:~“The sides will require
17 VII | What is to be done, then?” said Elphinstone, with a puzzled
18 VII | instead of iron.”~“Copper?” said Morgan.~“No! that would
19 VII | But, my dear president,” said the major, “is not the cost
20 VIII | renewed.~“My dear colleagues,” said Barbicane, without further
21 VIII | up to the present time,” said Barbicane, “our longest
22 VIII | certain limits.”~“Quite so,” said the major. “What is the
23 VIII | definitely adopted.~“But,” said Elphinstone, “what thickness
24 VIII | a superb idea, though,” said Maston.~“But impracticable,”
25 VIII | One simple question,” said Elphinstone: “is our gun
26 VIII | being renewed, “Gentlemen,” said Barbicane, “we must now
27 VIII | for choice.”~“Well, then,” said Morgan, “I propose the best
28 VIII | president, “I repeat what I said yesterday. Make yourselves
29 IX | during the war.~“Gentlemen,” said this distinguished chemist, “
30 IX | artillery.”~“Quite true,” said the general.~“Well,” replied
31 IX | extremes, my dear major,” said J. T. Maston, “you will
32 IX | shot.”~“Perfectly correct,” said Morgan; “but before deciding
33 IX | complete.”~“We must have,” said Maston, “several touch-holes,
34 IX | got an idea. He now simply said, “Well, my friends, what
35 IX | thousand pounds.” at last said Morgan.~“Five hundred thousand,”
36 IX | Gentlemen,” he quietly said, “I start from this principle,
37 IX | impulse.”~“Nevertheless,” said the president, “I hold to
38 IX | What is to be done then?” said the general.~“The thing
39 IX | Nothing could be more simple,” said Morgan.~“Moreover, pyroxyle
40 IX | of detail, a bagatelle,” said J. T. Maston.~
41 XI | United States. “Gentlemen,” said he, in opening the discussion, “
42 XI | carefully considering,” he said, “what is going on now between
43 XIII | disembarked at once. “Gentlemen,” said Barbicane, “we have no time
44 XIII | young Floridan, who quietly said:~“Sir, there are Seminoles
45 XIII | his steed.~“All right,” said the Floridan; “but it is
46 XIII | nearer the moon, perhaps?” said the secretary of the Gun
47 XIII | stroke of the pickaxe,” said the president.~“And I wish
48 XIII | their Columbiad.~“Halt!” said Barbicane, reining up. “
49 XIII | of his observations, and said:~“This spot is situated
50 XIII | here, from this very spot,” said he, stamping his foot on
51 XV | will be a grand ceremony,” said J. T. Maston to his friend
52 XV | Barbicane.~“Undoubtedly,” said Barbicane; “but it will
53 XVI | ready in time!” Barbicane said nothing, but his silence
54 XVIII | are Barbicane, I suppose?” said Michel Ardan, in a tone
55 XVIII | well? that’s right.”~“So,” said Barbicane without further
56 XVIII | anxiety. “But, at least,” said he, “you have some plans,
57 XIX | cried one voice (need it be said it was that of J. T. Maston). “
58 XIX | I feel certain of it,” said Michel Ardan.~“Nevertheless,”
59 XIX | spite of what Voltaire has said. She has but one satellite,
60 XX | return to the moon.”~“Sir,” said the unknown, “you pretend
61 XX | sternly at him in his turn and said:~“Oh! so there is no air
62 XX | you please.”~“You know,” said the stranger, “that when
63 XX | advantage he had gained, simply said:~“You see, then, my dear
64 XX | his adversary.~“Come!” he said shortly.~The other followed
65 XX | not forget your rifle?” said Barbicane.~“No more than
66 XXI | understand him.~“A hunter?” said Ardan.~“A hunter? Yes,”
67 XXI | What is to be done?” said Maston.~“We must go into
68 XXI | Barbicane’s.”~“Forward, then,” said Ardan, pressing his companion’
69 XXI | It must be all over,” said Maston, discouraged. “A
70 XXI | Maston stopped.~“Hush!” said he, “there is some one down
71 XXI | adversary!”~“Let us go to him,” said Michel Ardan, “and find
72 XXI | is he hiding?”~“Nicholl!” said Michel Ardan, “this is not
73 XXI | one of us——”~“Pooh, pooh!” said Ardan. “Brave fellows like
74 XXI | sir!”~“No!”~“Captain,” said J. T. Maston, with much
75 XXI | the foliage.~“It is he!” said Maston.~Barbicane never
76 XXI | the projectile!”~“Indeed?” said Michel Ardan, looking at
77 XXI | anything more.~“Thank heaven!” said he. “It is a happy thing
78 XXI | I put it to you now,” said he in conclusion, “are two
79 XXI | reconciliation.~“My good friends,” said he, with his most bewitching
80 XXI | make to you.”~“Make it,” said Nicholl.~“Our friend Barbicane
81 XXI | cried the captain.~“Good!” said Ardan. “I cannot pretend
82 XXI | of the president.~“Well?” said Michel. “There is now no
83 XXII | Singular hallucination!” said he to Barbicane, after having
84 XXII | You see, old fellow,” he said, “you must not take what
85 XXII | can’t find room in there,” said J. T. Maston, regretting
86 XXIII | they must, as Michel Ardan said, be made of very bad materials.~
87 XXIII | Since I am not to go,” said the brave artillerist, “
88 XXV | shall have to deal with,” said Michel Ardan. “Men or beasts
89 XXV | moon. “Nevertheless,” he said to Barbicane, “some valuable
90 XXV | the journey.~“Besides,” he said one day to his friends, “
91 XXV | his enthusiasm. What he said seemed so simple and so
92 XXV | Columbiad.~“I have lost,” said the captain, who forthwith
93 XXV | his engagements.~“Now,” said Michel Ardan, “I have only
94 XXVI | president.~“Can I not go?” he said, “there is still time!”~“
95 XXVIII| day.~“Those three men,” said he, “have carried into space
96 XXVIII| the fate in store for the said projectile; for in making
97 I | now, my dear companions,” said Michel Ardan, “let us make
98 I | installation.~“It is a prison,” said he, “but a traveling prison;
99 I | consulted it.~“My friends,” said he, “it is twenty minutes
100 I | Ardan.~“Twenty-four only,” said Nicholl.~“Well, twenty-four,
101 I | like, my noble captain,” said Ardan; “twenty-four minutes
102 I | investigate——”~“Michel,” said Barbicane, “during the passage
103 I | asked Barbicane.~“Humph!” said Michel Ardan, “it is not
104 I | minutes are over.”~“Twenty,” said Nicholl.~For some moments
105 I | Everything is in its place,” said Barbicane. “We have now
106 I | to the head.”~“Just so,” said Nicholl.~“Then,” replied
107 I | the grand circus.”~“No,” said Barbicane, “let us stretch
108 I | thing,’ I may cheer up,” said Michel Ardan.~“Do you approve
109 I | there are dogs in the moon,” said Barbicane.~“There are,”
110 I | Barbicane.~“There are,” said Michel Ardan, “just as there
111 I | dollars we shall find none!” said Nicholl.~“Done, my captain!”
112 I | Forty-two minutes past ten!” said Nicholl.~“Only five minutes
113 I | Enough, Michel, enough!” said Barbicane, in a serious
114 I | embrace.~“God preserve us!” said the religious Barbicane.~
115 II | sonorous “Hem!” and then said:~“Michel Ardan is whole.
116 II | a drunken man.~“Bur-r!” said he. “It produces the same
117 II | around him.~“And Barbicane?” said he.~“Each in turn,” replied
118 II | friction.~“He breathes though,” said Nicholl, putting his ear
119 II | suffer intense cold.~“What!” said Michel Ardan. “According
120 II | interval, and——”~“And then,” said Michel Ardan, “friend Nicholl
121 II | Let us prove it first,” said the captain, “and we will
122 II | I, either.”~“Very well,” said Nicholl.~“Well now,” murmured
123 II | find out where we are,” said Barbicane, “and let down
124 II | the earth.~“I have lost,” said Nicholl.~“I congratulate
125 II | nine thousand dollars,” said the captain, drawing a roll
126 II | Do not alarm yourself,” said Barbicane; “our future globe
127 II | know everything.”~“It is,” said Barbicane, “a simple meteorite,
128 II | position in space is.”~“How?” said Ardan.~“Because its distance
129 II | Only thirteen minutes?” said Barbicane.~“Yes,” said Nicholl; “
130 II | said Barbicane.~“Yes,” said Nicholl; “and if our initiatory
131 II | very well, my friends,” said the president, “but the
132 II | vanishing globe.~“Yes,” said Michel Ardan, “do not let
133 II | the earth?”~“The earth?” said Barbicane. “There it is.”~“
134 II | was inevitable.~“Well,” said Nicholl, “since we must
135 II | Columbiad.”~“And it is——?” said Nicholl.~“Because our projectile
136 III | once.~“They are hungry,” said Nicholl.~“By Jove!” replied
137 III | gracious words.~“Come, Diana,” said he: “come, my girl! thou
138 III | plaintive cries.~“Good,” said Barbicane: “I see Eve, but
139 III | piteous state.~“The devil!” said Michel.~They brought the
140 III | will take care of you,” said Michel; “we are responsible
141 III | perfect circle.~“By Jove!” said Michel Ardan, “I am really
142 III | opposition to the sun.”~“Why?” said Nicholl.~“Because we should
143 III | fresher than nature,” said the amiable Michel) succeeded
144 III | I expected it.”~“But,” said Michel, “the conical shadow
145 III | taken into consideration,” said Barbicane. “But when the
146 III | It is pleasant here,” said Nicholl.~“I should think
147 III | Nicholl.~“I should think so,” said Michel Ardan. “With a little
148 III | What astonishes me,” said Barbicane, “is that we have
149 III | provided for.”~“I feared it,” said Nicholl simply.~“And you
150 IV | of which was partly open, said in a low voice, “Will you
151 IV | Barbicane were awake.~“A cock!” said Nicholl.~“Why no, my friends,”
152 IV | laughing.~“Fine talent that,” said Nicholl, looking suspiciously
153 IV | at his companion.~“Yes,” said Michel; “a joke in my country.
154 IV | its weight.”~“So be it,” said Michel; “but, once more;
155 IV | x^1; you think you have said all when you have said ‘
156 IV | have said all when you have said ‘Algebra.’”~“Michel,” said
157 IV | said ‘Algebra.’”~“Michel,” said Barbicane, “can you use
158 IV | enough advanced.”~“Then,” said Michel Ardan, in his sly
159 IV | tone, “mathematics have not said their last word?”~“Certainly
160 IV | atmosphere.”~“Just so,” said Nicholl; “it is from that
161 IV | I understand no more,” said Michel.~“It is a very simple
162 IV | very simple calculation,” said Barbicane.~“Not as simple
163 IV | written in letters of fire,” said Nicholl.~“Wonderful fellows!”
164 IV | splitting with it.”~“And now,” said Nicholl, “to find out the
165 IV | attraction, ought to be——”~“Yes?” said Barbicane.~“Twelve thousand
166 V | communicated to Barbicane.~“Ah!” said he; “it is seven o’clock
167 V | considerable weight.”~“Just so,” said Nicholl.~“Ah, my brave Nicholl,
168 V | saved!”~“Very well then,” said Michel Ardan quietly; “as
169 V | should we not succeed?” said Michel Ardan; “why should
170 V | aim?”~“It will attain it,” said Barbicane.~“If only to do
171 V | with them.”~“My friend,” said Barbicane, “if the moon
172 V | learn from them.”~“What!” said Michel; “you believe that
173 V | they have never done so?” said Barbicane seriously.~“Indeed,”
174 V | done it?”~“And I repeat,” said Barbicane; “who told you
175 V | hardened.”~“Old Barbicane,” said Michel, “you have an answer
176 V | for her breakfast.~“Ah!” said Michel Ardan, “in our discussion
177 V | Do you see, Barbicane,” said Michel, “we should have
178 V | would have failed us.”~“Oh!” said Michel, “we might have squeezed
179 V | asked Barbicane. “Why,” said Michel, “they make their
180 V | is no longer ill.”~“Ah!” said Nicholl.~“No,” answered
181 V | question presents itself,” said Barbicane. “We cannot keep
182 V | for some moments, and then said:~“Yes, we must do so, but
183 V | throwing out poor Satellite?” said Michel.~“Agreed; but we
184 V | replied Nicholl.~“Who knows?” said Michel Ardan. “But, in admitting
185 V | away from it?”~“There!” said Barbicane, “there is Michel
186 V | Centigrade below zero.”~“Pooh!” said Michel, “that’s nothing!”~“
187 V | zero.”~“If I mistake not,” said Nicholl, “M. Pouillet, another
188 VI | would have been.~“But,” said Barbicane, “I do not see
189 VI | But let us suppose so,” said Michel.~“It is an impossible
190 VI | impossible supposition,” said the practical Barbicane; “
191 VI | meteor which we met.”~“Then,” said Nicholl, “the projectile
192 VI | set in motion.”~“Well,” said michel, “that is an ingenious
193 VI | returning to his theory, said:~“Thus, in case of a shock,
194 VI | raised to such a pitch,” said Barbicane, “that she would
195 VI | reduced to vapor.”~“Well,” said Michel, “that is a way of
196 VI | planets.”~“Thus, my friends,” said Barbicane, “all motion suddenly
197 VI | that all is for the best,” said Michel, “and that this atmosphere
198 VI | us from roasting.”~“Yes!” said Nicholl, “unfortunately,
199 VI | same in the moon.”~“Bah!” said Michel, always hopeful. “
200 VI | intolerable brilliancy.~“By Jove!” said he, “it must be hot up there!”~“
201 VI | And to compensate that,” said Barbicane, “the nights have
202 VI | apparent semidiameter——”~“Oh!” said Michel. “Do speak plainly,
203 VI | from its center.”~“Then,” said Michel, in a merry tone, “
204 VI | Michel.~“None whatever,” said Barbicane, “and the proof
205 VI | Nicholl.~“How time goes,” said Michel, “in the conversation
206 VI | What astonishes me,” said Nicholl, “is that the specific
207 VI | same effect.”~“Just so,” said Nicholl, “and everything
208 VI | themselves up!”~“Granted,” said Barbicane, “but how to breathe?”~“
209 VII | human face.~“Face, indeed!” said Michel Ardan; “but I am
210 VII | oxygen, Captain Nicholl said “it was of the first quality.”
211 VII | Do you know, my friends,” said Michel Ardan, “that if one
212 VII | That would have been sad,” said Nicholl.~“Ah!” continued
213 VII | solution.~“Ah, indeed!” said he; “it is all very well
214 VII | answered Barbicane.~“And I,” said Michel, “if I had known
215 VII | approve of Michel’s words,” said Barbicane; “and add, that
216 VII | laws of weight.”~“Enough,” said Michel with animation. “
217 VII | Well thought of, Michel,” said Barbicane in a convinced
218 VII | thirty-nine stars of the Union!” said Michel, “I have nothing
219 VII | tension of the mind.~“Now,” said Nicholl, in a short tone, “
220 VII | violence.~“It must suit you,” said Barbicane, with an eye on
221 VII | to know what for.”~“Yes,” said the captain, “now that I
222 VII | very contradictory.~“Who said that there were no Selenites?”
223 VII | howled Nicholl.~“Captain,” said Michel, “do not repreat
224 VII | Stop, miserable men,” said he, separating his two companions; “
225 VII | the moon belongs to us,” said Nicholl.~“Let us three constitute
226 VIII | foolish things had been said while under its influence,
227 VIII | very well, friend Michel,” said he, “but will you inform
228 VIII | replied Michel.~“No,” said Barbicane, “because the
229 VIII | did not exist.”~“Just so,” said Nicholl, smiling; “if we
230 VIII | no more burdens!”~“Well said,” replied Barbicane; “but
231 VIII | Gulliver with the giants,” said Nicholl.~“Just so,” replied
232 VIII | raise again.”~“The devil!” said Michel; “one would want
233 IX | reaching our destination?” said Nicholl.~“Let us act as
234 IX | diverted from our route,” said Michel; “but why?”~“I very
235 IX | asked Nicholl.~“Too late?” said Barbicane.~“Yes,” continued
236 IX | well, then, Barbicane,” said Michel, “do you wish to
237 IX | I ask but one thing,” said Michel; “that we may pass
238 IX | crossed our path.”~“What?” said Michel Ardan.~“What do you
239 IX | exclaimed Nicholl.~“I mean,” said Barbicane in a decided tone, “
240 IX | brush us as it passed,” said Michel.~“What does that
241 X | away from it.”~This was said in a tone which quenched
242 XI | Cyrano de Bergerac. “Only,” said he, “it is no longer the
243 XII | observers.~“My friends,” said the president, in a serious
244 XII | our observations!”~This said, work was begun with great
245 XII | craters.~“There exist,” said Barbicane, “several kinds
246 XII | What splendid radiation!” said Michel. “One could hardly
247 XII | terrestrial observers.~“But why,” said Nicholl, “should not these
248 XII | height we are at, resembles?” said Michel.~“No,” replied Nicholl.~“
249 XII | by one.”~“Do be serious,” said Barbicane.~“Well, let us
250 XII | Selenites are not fools,” said Michel.~“A singular idea,”
251 XII | less than on the earth?” said Michel.~“But if the Selenites
252 XIII | They are not furrows,” said Barbicane; “they are rifts.”~“
253 XIII | with Julius Schmidt.~“Why,” said he, “should not these unaccountable
254 XIII | your vegetation, then?” said Barbicane.~“I like,” retorted
255 XIII | the mineral.~“Ah, indeed!” said Michel Ardan, a little out
256 XIV | let us accuse the sun,” said Nicholl, “it is not his
257 XIV | phenomenon.~“Curious indeed,” said they; “for, if each hemisphere
258 XIV | turn!”~“Nicely worded!” said Michel, “slightly academical
259 XIV | the moon is new.”~“But,” said Nicholl, “that advantage
260 XIV | understand.”~“Thank you,” said Michel.~“Indeed,” continued
261 XIV | Barbicane.~“One moment,” said Michel, interrupting his
262 XIV | Get along with you,” said Barbicane, smiling.~“On
263 XIV | smiling.~“On the contrary,” said Michel, imitating the tone
264 XIV | little less.”~“Very well said!” exclaimed Barbicane. “
265 XIV | point upon the sun.~“So,” said Nicholl, “there is a hemisphere,
266 XIV | would be a consideration,” said Michel.~Breakfast over,
267 XIV | In any case it is cold,” said Michel. “See! the steam
268 XIV | prepare a thermometer,” said Barbicane.~We may imagine
269 XIV | part of the instrument, and said:~“A hundred and forty degrees
270 XV | cannot estimate.”~“Yes,” said Nicholl, “it will follow
271 XV | of the sides.”~“Ah! ah!” said Michel, in a satisfied tone.~“
272 XV | nowhere?”~“Evidently,” said Barbicane, “they are open
273 XV | the full.”~“Certainly,” said Nicholl, “that circumstance
274 XV | magnificently lit.”~“Well said, Nicholl,” replied Michel
275 XV | a volcano?”~“But, then,” said Michel Ardan, “in order
276 XVII | its usual quantity.~“Ah!” said Nicholl, “these rays of
277 XVII | mouth of hell.~“Newton,” said Barbicane, “is the most
278 XVII | Terrestrial volcanoes,” said Barbicane, “are but mole-hills
279 XVIII | of these rays.”~“Indeed?” said Barbicane.~“Indeed,” continued
280 XVIII | like a lunar stomach-ache.” said Michel Ardan.~“Besides,”
281 XVIII | think that we can answer,” said Barbicane; “but according
282 XVIII | replied Michel.~“Just so,” said Barbicane, “which for us
283 XVIII | we may form our opinion?” said Michel.~“Yes,” replied Nicholl.~“
284 XVIII | December may be seen.~“Now,” said Nicholl, “let us attack
285 XVIII | older than the earth?”~“No!” said Barbicane decidedly, “but
286 XVIII | habitable.”~“I believe it,” said Nicholl.~“Then,” continued
287 XVIII | necessarily be inhabited.”~“But,” said Nicholl, “many phenomena
288 XVIII | poles they last six months,” said Michel.~“An argument of
289 XVIII | astonish you.”~“Astonish us?” said Michel Ardan.~“I firmly
290 XVIII | speculations are too high,” said he; “problems utterly insoluble.
291 XIX | revolution not at all consoling,” said Michel, “to pass to the
292 XIX | There is nothing to answer,” said Nicholl.~“Is there nothing
293 XIX | that?”~“No recrimination,” said Michel. “I do not complain,
294 XIX | What would you throw out?” said Nicholl. “We have no ballast
295 XIX | Neither slower nor quicker,” said Barbicane, wishing to make
296 XIX | in our rockets.”~“Done!” said Nicholl.~“We have not used
297 XIX | not used this force yet,” said Barbicane, “it is true,
298 XIX | the lunar disc.”~“Bravo!” said Michel. “What we did not
299 XIX | Very well reasoned,” said Nicholl.~“Let us wait patiently,”
300 XIX | nothing else to be done,” said Nicholl, “I make a proposition.”~“
301 XIX | since we closed our eyes,” said Nicholl. “Some hours of
302 XIX | has a good deal of sense,” said Barbicane; “presently I
303 XIX | s baritone.~“Certainly,” said Michel Ardan, finding himself
304 XIX | Five minutes to one,” said Nicholl.~“All is ready,”
305 XIX | flame of the gas.~“Wait!” said Barbicane, holding his chronometer
306 XIX | touch it.~“One o’clock,” said Barbicane.~Michel Ardan
307 XIX | Ardan, at length.~“No,” said Nicholl, “since the bottom
308 XIX | contracted.~“We are falling!” said he.~“Ah!” cried Michel Ardan, “
309 XIX | per hour.~“We are lost!” said Michel coolly.~“Very well!
310 XX | is a great depression,” said Captain Blomsberry. “In
311 XX | apparatus is very ingenious,” said Captain Blomsberry; “it
312 XX | notebook.~“Well, Bronsfield,” said the captain, “I will take
313 XX | have been gone ten days,” said Lieutenant Bronsfield at
314 XX | me so, my young friend,” said Lieutenant Bronsfield, smiling.~“
315 XX | Beg pardon, lieutenant,” said the midshipman, “but cannot
316 XX | their disposal.~“Evidently,” said one of the officers; “but
317 XXI | the young midshipman had said, and every one had understood
318 XXI | their fate.~“They are dead!” said one.~“They are alive!” said
319 XXI | said one.~“They are alive!” said another; “the crater is
320 XXI | fasten the end to a buoy,” said he, “and that buoy will
321 XXI | and uttered a cry.~“What!” said J. T. Maston.~“The projectile!”~“
322 XXI | orifice without hurt.~“Ah!” said he, “if I had broken the
323 XXII | before midnight.~“To-morrow,” said J. T. Maston, as he set
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