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1 XVII | steamer Atlanta.~ MICHEL ARDAN.~
2 XVIII | little discretion, and Michel Ardan’s proposition ran at once
3 XVIII | under the name of Michel Ardan, on his way here? Yes or
4 XVIII | a Frenchman named Michel Ardan?”~Two hours afterward Barbicane
5 XVIII | passengers by the name of Michel Ardan.”~That very evening he wrote
6 XVIII | emotion, called “Michel Ardan.”~“Here!” replied an individual
7 XVIII | these were certainly Michel Ardan and the Yankee Barbicane;
8 XVIII | personal a form, that Michel Ardan, after having shaken hands
9 XVIII | I suppose?” said Michel Ardan, in a tone of voice in which
10 XVIII | of the proposal of Michel Ardan. His words were received
11 XIX | questions might be put to Michel Ardan, was desirous of reducing
12 XIX | At three o’clock Michel Ardan made his appearance, accompanied
13 XIX | sun, and nearly as ruddy. Ardan mounted a platform, from
14 XIX | this bold theory. Michel Ardan perceived the fact.~“Gentlemen,”
15 XIX | however, desirable to divert Ardan from questions of a practical
16 XIX | certain of it,” said Michel Ardan.~“Nevertheless,” retorted
17 XIX | regret,” replied Michel Ardan, “that I have not the honor
18 XIX | to see!’”~Whether Michel Ardan’s antagonist hazarded any
19 XX | right, sir,” replied Michel Ardan; “the discussion has become
20 XX | the moon.”~At this remark Ardan pushed up his shock of red
21 XX | expedition.~“Sir,” replied Ardan’s antagonist, “there are
22 XX | point of fact,” replied Ardan, “this is your chief, if
23 XX | On again, then,” replied Ardan; “Herschel, in 1787, observed
24 XX | Let us proceed,” replied Ardan, with perfect coolness, “
25 XX | now reduced to silence. Ardan resumed the conversation;
26 XX | assembly.~“Then,” continued Ardan, with a careless air, “since
27 XX | applauded the proposition. Ardan’s opponent tried to get
28 XX | formidable proportions, if Michel Ardan had not quieted it by a
29 XX | too much!” cried Michel Ardan’s adversary. “I do not know
30 XX | I ask?” demanded Michel Ardan in an imperious tone.~“The
31 XX | Club shared with Michel Ardan triumphal honors. The shield
32 XX | triumphant march. Michel Ardan took it all with evident
33 XX | port of Tampa Town.~Michel Ardan managed fortunately to escape
34 XX | problem proposed by Michel Ardan during the discussion at
35 XXI | became a man-hunter— Michel Ardan was resting from the fatigues
36 XXI | granite tables for hardness.~Ardan was sleeping, then, badly
37 XXI | shrieked, “for heaven’s sake!” Ardan saw no reason for complying
38 XXI | and that man is Michel Ardan.”~While J. T. Maston was
39 XXI | Maston was speaking, Michel Ardan, without interrupting him,
40 XXI | this walk that Maston told Ardan the state of the case. He
41 XXI | demons you are!” cried Michel Ardan, when his companion had
42 XXI | make haste.”~Though Michel Ardan and he had crossed the plains
43 XXI | understand him.~“A hunter?” said Ardan.~“A hunter? Yes,” replied
44 XXI | heard any gunshots?” asked Ardan.~“No!”~“Not one?”~“Not one!
45 XXI | Forward, then,” said Ardan, pressing his companion’
46 XXI | could not penetrate. Michel Ardan and Maston walked side by
47 XXI | surely,” replied Michel Ardan, “since we entered the wood
48 XXI | tones of despair.~For once Ardan had no reply to make, he
49 XXI | after all doubtful, and Ardan was about to propose their
50 XXI | Some one?” repeated Michel Ardan.~“Yes; a man! He seems motionless.
51 XXI | you recognize him?” asked Ardan, whose short sight was of
52 XXI | Nicholl?” cried Michel Ardan, feeling a terrible pang
53 XXI | go to him,” said Michel Ardan, “and find out the truth.”~
54 XXI | man.”~He turned. Michel Ardan was before him, repeating
55 XXI | kindhearted one!”~“Michel Ardan!” cried the captain. “Why
56 XXI | Nicholl!” said Michel Ardan, “this is not courteous!
57 XXI | we have found him, Michel Ardan tells you this, there will
58 XXI | us——”~“Pooh, pooh!” said Ardan. “Brave fellows like you
59 XXI | is not joking,” replied Ardan. “I fully understand his
60 XXI | incredulity.~“Patience!” exclaimed Ardan. “I can only reveal it in
61 XXI | thought seemed to occur to Ardan; and both were casting inquiring
62 XXI | Barbicane never moved. Ardan looked at the captain, but
63 XXI | captain, but he did not wince. Ardan went forward crying:~“Barbicane!
64 XXI | Barbicane!”~No answer! Ardan rushed toward his friend;
65 XXI | and heard nothing.~When Ardan took his hand, he looked
66 XXI | Indeed?” said Michel Ardan, looking at the captain
67 XXI | also?”~“Himself,” replied Ardan; “and permit me to introduce
68 XXI | forgotten— I am ready!”~Michel Ardan interfered, without giving
69 XXI | is not dangerous.”~Michel Ardan then told the president
70 XXI | quite unexpected; Michel Ardan saw this, and determined
71 XXI | the captain.~“Good!” said Ardan. “I cannot pretend to make
72 XXII | From that day forth, Michel Ardan had not one moment’s rest.
73 XXII | height of his triumph, Michel Ardan had to encounter all the
74 XXII | accepted the proposal of Michel Ardan, he determined to join them,
75 XXII | went in search of Michel Ardan, who counseled him to resign
76 XXII | Unquestionably,” replied Michel Ardan; “but we shall not.”~In
77 XXII | coverlid of their prison.~Ardan, Barbicane, Maston, and
78 XXII | go!~Two days later Michel Ardan received a message from
79 XXIII | that month, where Michel Ardan, Barbicane, and Nicholl
80 XXIII | crushed, they must, as Michel Ardan said, be made of very bad
81 XXV | round the enclosure. Michel Ardan had volunteered to superintend
82 XXV | necessaries were numerous; and had Ardan been allowed to follow his
83 XXV | deal with,” said Michel Ardan. “Men or beasts may possibly
84 XXV | that of the torrid zone.~Ardan wished to convey a number
85 XXV | us.”~“I dare say, my dear Ardan,” replied the president, “
86 XXV | the necessaries. Michel Ardan, indeed, was anxious to
87 XXV | nourishment somewhere in the moon. Ardan never questioned this; indeed,
88 XXV | would be simpler,” replied Ardan; “the Columbiad will be
89 XXV | confidence, that Michel Ardan carried all the Gun Club
90 XXV | engagements.~“Now,” said Michel Ardan, “I have only one thing
91 XXVI | only the heart of Michel Ardan. That imperturbable personage
92 XXVI | which was afterward called “Ardan’s Town.” The whole plain
93 XXVI | and measured step. Michel Ardan, always easy, dressed in
94 XXVI | feverish gayety, even Michel Ardan was touched. J. T. Maston
95 XXVII | frenzied cries. “Hurrah for Ardan! Hurrah for Barbicane! Hurrah
96 XXVIII| Nicholl, Barbicane, and Michel Ardan were certain to be immortalized
97 XXVIII| intrepid adventurer was Michel Ardan. He landed in America, was
98 XXVIII| These bold travelers, Michel Ardan, President Barbicane, and
99 XXVIII| audacious humor of Michel Ardan. Besides this, it will prove
100 I | ten o’clock struck, Michel Ardan, Barbicane, and Nicholl,
101 I | companions,” said Michel Ardan, “let us make ourselves
102 I | shape of a dome.~Michel Ardan examined everything, and
103 I | advances an inch!”~While Michel Ardan was speaking, Barbicane
104 I | Well!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, in a good-humored tone, “
105 I | twenty-six minutes left,” replied Ardan.~“Twenty-four only,” said
106 I | my noble captain,” said Ardan; “twenty-four minutes in
107 I | joker!” exclaimed Michel Ardan. “He hopes!—He is not sure!—
108 I | Barbicane.~“Humph!” said Michel Ardan, “it is not easy; we are
109 I | Then,” replied Michel Ardan, ready to suit the action
110 I | may cheer up,” said Michel Ardan.~“Do you approve of my idea,
111 I | departure.~During this time, Ardan, not being able to keep
112 I | There are,” said Michel Ardan, “just as there are horses,
113 I | Done, my captain!” replied Ardan, clasping Nicholl’s hand. “
114 I | practical men!” exclaimed Michel Ardan; “I admire you the more
115 I | minutes!” replied Michel Ardan; “and we are enclosed in
116 I | Yes,” exclaimed Michel Ardan, more moved than he wished
117 I | religious Barbicane.~Michel Ardan and Nicholl stretched themselves
118 II | Barbicane, Nicholl, and Michel Ardan— did they still breathe?
119 II | its knees. It was Michel Ardan. He felt himself all over,
120 II | and then said:~“Michel Ardan is whole. How about the
121 II | first let us light up.”~Ardan felt the tide of life return
122 II | and in that case Michel Ardan could not have carried a
123 II | When the burner was lit, Ardan leaned over the bodies of
124 II | above, Barbicane underneath.~Ardan lifted the captain, propped
125 II | presence of mind, seized Ardan’s hand and looked around
126 II | in turn,” replied Michel Ardan. “I began with you, Nicholl,
127 II | Barbicane.” Saying which, Ardan and Nicholl raised the president
128 II | wounded man.~“Yes,” replied Ardan, “he breathes like a man
129 II | we moving?”~Nicholl and Ardan looked at each other; they
130 II | moving?” repeated Michel Ardan.~“Or quietly resting on
131 II | of Mexico?” added Michel Ardan.~“What an idea!” exclaimed
132 II | cold.~“What!” said Michel Ardan. “According to your showing,
133 II | And then,” said Michel Ardan, “friend Nicholl has lost
134 II | captain,” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “that hypothesis is not
135 II | be loud?”~“No,” replied Ardan, much surprised; “certainly
136 II | hurrah!” exclaimed Michel Ardan and Nicholl in one voice.~
137 II | congratulate you,” replied Ardan.~“Here are the nine thousand
138 II | in his pocketbook. Michel Ardan, taking off his hat, bowed
139 II | the following remark from Ardan:~“And the moon; will she
140 II | Ah!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “What is that? another
141 II | Jove!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “we shall run into one
142 II | to you,” exclaimed Michel Ardan, with a sigh of relief. “
143 II | possible!” exclaimed Michel Ardan; “the earth then has two
144 II | in space is.”~“How?” said Ardan.~“Because its distance is
145 II | leagues,” exclaimed Michel Ardan. “That beats the express
146 II | globe.~“Yes,” said Michel Ardan, “do not let us be ungrateful
147 II | and the exterior.~Michel Ardan knelt by the glass. It was
148 II | earth?” repeated Michel Ardan, looking with all his eyes
149 II | thousand in an hour. But Michel Ardan, disdaining scientific reasonings,
150 II | you found?” asked Michel Ardan, jumping from his bed.~“
151 III | dogs!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, rising at once.~“They are
152 III | much persuasion, Michel Ardan encouraging her with most
153 III | By Jove!” said Michel Ardan, “I am really sorry that
154 III | likenesses!” exclaimed Michel Ardan; “They are no more our likenesses
155 III | means to say?” asked Michel Ardan.~“That it is half-past eight,”
156 III | imperious laws of hunger. Michel Ardan, as a Frenchman, was declared
157 III | lastly, to crown the repast, Ardan had brought out a fine bottle
158 III | The sun!” exclaimed Michel Ardan.~“No doubt,” replied Barbicane; “
159 III | should think so,” said Michel Ardan. “With a little earth spread
160 III | captain,” exclaimed Michel Ardan, clasping his friend’s hand.~
161 III | and shrubs which Michel Ardan hoped to transplant into
162 III | unparalleled dexterity. Michel Ardan chatted first with Barbicane,
163 IV | through the car. Michel Ardan, who was the first on his
164 IV | calculation?” asked Michel Ardan.~“Perfectly. Nicholl and
165 IV | advanced.”~“Then,” said Michel Ardan, in his sly tone, “mathematics
166 IV | his head, showed Michel Ardan a page covered with algebraical
167 IV | something!” replied Michel Ardan, who for his life could
168 IV | Wonderful fellows!” muttered Ardan.~“Do you understand it at
169 IV | I understand it?” cried Ardan; “my head is splitting with
170 IV | watched him, while Michel Ardan nursed a growing headache
171 IV | the matter?” asked Michel Ardan, much surprised.~“What is
172 IV | projectile!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, jumping as if it was already
173 V | his calculations. Michel Ardan was muttering:~“That is
174 V | well then,” said Michel Ardan quietly; “as we are safe,
175 V | not succeed?” said Michel Ardan; “why should we not arrive
176 V | Americans,” added Michel Ardan, “the only people who could
177 V | breakfast.~“Ah!” said Michel Ardan, “in our discussion we have
178 V | It was quite dead. Michel Ardan looked at his friends with
179 V | Who knows?” said Michel Ardan. “But, in admitting that
180 VI | Nicholl always serious, Michel Ardan always enthusiastic. The
181 VI | the sun,” replied Michel Ardan, “of which the inhabitants
182 VI | new to note!~When Michel Ardan came down, he went to the
183 VI | machine?” continued Michel Ardan. “Is it one of the bodies
184 VII | Besides,” observed Michel Ardan, “a plain is easier to disembark
185 VII | Face, indeed!” said Michel Ardan; “but I am sorry for the
186 VII | his preoccupation, Michel Ardan did not forget to prepare
187 VII | the repast, causing Michel Ardan to remark that the lunar
188 VII | my friends,” said Michel Ardan, “that if one of us had
189 VII | projectile are forbidden.”~Michel Ardan allowed himself to be convinced
190 VII | hip!” vociferated Michel Ardan.~Then the president and
191 VIII | wise then?” replied Michel Ardan.~After this philosophical
192 VIII | Ah!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “that is rather an amusing
193 VIII | and Nicholl and Michel Ardan shared Barbicane’s joy.~
194 VIII | the laws of weight. Michel Ardan, always enthusiastic, drew
195 IX | sceptical,” retorted Michel Ardan. “We shall arrive, and that,
196 IX | Barbicane’s enemy and Michel Ardan’s adversary. To Captain
197 IX | audacious adventurer like Michel Ardan.~Conversation was started
198 IX | attraction or other.”~Michel Ardan’s indifference did not content
199 IX | path.”~“What?” said Michel Ardan.~“What do you mean?” exclaimed
200 X | very obliquity, gave Michel Ardan some hopes of striking the
201 X | tone which quenched Michel Ardan’s last hope.~The portion
202 XI | at least it was in Michel Ardan’s eyes. To him it was a
203 XI | the present time. Michel Ardan was right when he compared
204 XII | beautiful,” retorted Michel Ardan.~At this moment the projectile
205 XIII | the cause of it.~Michel Ardan was watching near the president,
206 XIII | events,” retorted Michel Ardan; “but what laborers those
207 XIII | however, allow that Michel Ardan had “an idea,” and that,
208 XIII | I like,” retorted Michel Ardan, “to explain what you savants
209 XIII | Ah, indeed!” said Michel Ardan, a little out of countenance; “
210 XIII | on the black sky.~Michel Ardan wanted to open one of the
211 XIV | Melted, disappeared!” Michel Ardan exclaimed, aghast.~Indeed,
212 XIV | radiant orb!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “which forces us to expend
213 XIV | Well,” replied Michel Ardan, “as the matter is settled,
214 XIV | Then,” continued Michel Ardan, “would not this be the
215 XIV | easier,” replied Michel Ardan, who was never at a loss. “
216 XIV | devil!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “it is cold enough to freeze
217 XV | this subject, and Michel Ardan, always ready with an explanation,
218 XV | words,” exclaimed Michel Ardan; “one knows directly what
219 XV | possible!” exclaimed Michel Ardan in a serious tone, as if
220 XV | cared little for Michel Ardan’s fun. They were deep in
221 XV | Nicholl,” replied Michel Ardan. “What do you think, Barbicane?”~“
222 XV | to that,” answered Michel Ardan. “Here is, however, a good
223 XV | But, then,” said Michel Ardan, “in order to maintain that
224 XV | Barbicane, Nicholl, and Michel Ardan, bathed in its white sheets,
225 XV | By Jove!” cried Michel Ardan, “we are hideous. What is
226 XVI | About five o’clock, Michel Ardan distributed, under the name
227 XVI | answered Nicholl and Michel Ardan.~“Yes, my friends, it is
228 XVI | the moon!” cried Michel Ardan.~“Only, I would have you
229 XVII | Yes,” replied Michel Ardan, “imbibing as it were the
230 XVII | ever existed there.~Michel Ardan, however, thought he recognized
231 XVII | Asiatic Caucasus. Michel Ardan, with his accustomed ardor,
232 XVII | the fact,” replied Michel Ardan.~Some minutes after passing
233 XVII | not listening to Michel Ardan; he was contemplating these
234 XVII | southern hemisphere. Michel Ardan used every metaphor that
235 XVII | Ah!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, enthusiastic at the sight; “
236 XVIII | by Jove!” replied Michel Ardan, “it seems easy enough to
237 XVIII | stomach-ache.” said Michel Ardan.~“Besides,” added Barbicane, “
238 XVIII | for or against it? Michel Ardan persuaded his two friends
239 XVIII | well,” continued Michel Ardan, “the Scientific Commission
240 XVIII | Astonish us?” said Michel Ardan.~“I firmly believe that
241 XVIII | can say,” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “that the moon did not
242 XVIII | And so,” asked Michel Ardan, “humanity has disappeared
243 XVIII | savant,” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “for you make me boil with
244 XIX | become of us?” asked Michel Ardan.~“We don’t know,” replied
245 XIX | Very well,” cried Michel Ardan in a decided voice; “then
246 XIX | disturbed by a cry from Michel Ardan.~“By Jove!” he exclaimed, “
247 XIX | was a signal for Michel Ardan’s hips and hurrahs. And
248 XIX | motion!” exclaimed Michel Ardan.~“It is forty hours since
249 XIX | Certainly,” said Michel Ardan, finding himself alone, “
250 XIX | is ready,” replied Michel Ardan, directing a lighted match
251 XIX | said Barbicane.~Michel Ardan applied the lighted match
252 XIX | we falling?” asked Michel Ardan, at length.~“No,” said Nicholl, “
253 XIX | said he.~“Ah!” cried Michel Ardan, “on to the moon?”~“On to
254 XIX | devil!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, adding philosophically, “
255 XIX | fact,” interrupted Michel Ardan, “the whole of the other
256 XX | out his notes, and Michel Ardan embalming the lunar solitudes
257 XXI | that he could see Michel Ardan’s face looking through one
258 XXII | Barbicane, Nicholl, and Michel Ardan was an international affair.
259 XXII | Nicholl, Barbicane, and Michel Ardan, as if his unfortunate friends
260 XXII | voice, the voice of Michel Ardan, exclaiming in an accent
261 XXII | all!”~Barbicane, Michel Ardan, and Nicholl were playing
262 XXIII | Barbicane, Nicholl, and Michel Ardan? No! and the ardent passion
263 XXIII | longing.~Barbicane, Michel Ardan, Nicholl, and the delegates
264 XXIII | Colonel Nicholl, and Michel Ardan. At the whistle of the driver,
265 XXIII | director of movements, Michel Ardan.~And as it is part of the
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