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1 I | there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given
2 I | Go and propose it to the President of the United States,” cried
3 I | BALTIMORE, October 3.~The president of the Gun Club has the
4 II | CHAPTER II~PRESIDENT BARBICANE’S COMMUNICATION~
5 II | the invitation of their president. As regards the corresponding
6 II | important communication of President Barbicane; all pushing,
7 II | further end of the saloon the president, assisted by four secretaries,
8 II | truncheons, so that the president could balance himself upon
9 II | was on the ramparts.” The president was sufficiently well known,
10 II | The meeting felt that the president was now approaching the
11 II | assemblage, electrified by their president’s words.~“I have now enumerated,”
12 II | the very hall tremble. The president attempted to speak, but
13 III | CHAPTER III~EFFECT OF THE PRESIDENT’S COMMUNICATION~It is impossible
14 III | last words of the honorable president— the cries, the shouts,
15 III | triumphal progress of the president continued throughout the
16 III | excitement began to subside. President Barbicane reached his house,
17 IV | was placed in the hands of President Barbicane.~It was couched
18 IV | Cambridge Observatory to the President~ of the Gun Club at Baltimore.~
19 VII | mechanical part still remained.~President Barbicane had, without loss
20 VII | committee met at the house of President Barbicane, 3 Republican
21 VII | meeting was opened by the president himself.~“Gentlemen,” said
22 VII | an inspired accent, “our president is right in placing the
23 VII | before us,” continued the president, “is how to communicate
24 VII | Clearly not!” replied the president.~“What is to be done, then?”
25 VII | projectile.”~“But, my dear president,” said the major, “is not
26 VIII | major.~“True,” replied the president; “but we will overcome that,
27 VIII | I admit,” replied the president, “that this composition
28 VIII | gentlemen,” replied the president, “I repeat what I said yesterday.
29 VIII | this assurance of their president the committee separated,
30 IX | you aiming at?” asked the president.~“If you push your theory
31 IX | was at last broken by the president.~“Gentlemen,” he quietly
32 IX | Nevertheless,” said the president, “I hold to that quantity
33 X | This persevering enemy the president of the Gun Club had never
34 X | Washington, challenging the president of the Gun Club to break
35 X | conical. Refused by the president, who did not choose to compromise
36 X | single admirer from the president of the Gun Club. The latter
37 XI | time. From that very moment President Barbicane and the influential
38 XI | prudence and address of President Barbicane averted the danger.
39 XI | an eye upon the deputies.~President Barbicane knew not which
40 XII | the requisite millions.~President Barbicane undertook, despite
41 XII | jealousy.~On the 8th of October President Barbicane published a manifesto
42 XII | days after the manifesto of President Barbicane $4,000,000 were
43 XII | dollars apiece. This one of President Barbicane, unique in the
44 XII | was signed by Barbicane, president of the Gun Club, of the
45 XIII | him, an honor due to the president who had signalized their
46 XIII | of the pickaxe,” said the president.~“And I wish we were at
47 XIII | of this wealth of nature. President Barbicane, however, less
48 XIV | with the surrounding soil.~President Barbicane and the members
49 XV | like— till then, no!”~The president was right. The operation
50 XVI | At last!” exclaimed the president of the Gun Club, with an
51 XVI | account between himself and President Barbicane, in which he debited
52 XVI | murmurs; they blamed the president, taxed him with dictatorial
53 XVI | basket of honor took down the president, J. T. Maston, Major Elphinstone,
54 XVII | arrived at the address of President Barbicane.~The president
55 XVII | President Barbicane.~The president tore open the envelope,
56 XVIII | straight for the residence of President Barbicane. That worthy individual
57 XVIII | show,” calmly replied the president.~“Time has no business to
58 XVIII | The scrutiny which the president of the Gun Club had instituted
59 XVIII | standing.~“Yes,” replied the president of the Gun Club.~“All right!
60 XVIII | Barbicane.~So saying, the president left the cabin and informed
61 XVIII | this European!”~As to the president, after having suggested
62 XIX | supported on his right by President Barbicane, and on his left
63 XIX | you.”~Up to this point the president of the Gun Club had been
64 XIX | great problem, my worthy president,” replied the orator, smiling. “
65 XIX | or fairly,” replied the president. “The question then reverts
66 XX | Nobody knew him, and the president, uneasy as to the result
67 XX | hundred strong arms, and the president of the Gun Club shared with
68 XX | crossed arms, glaring at President Barbicane.~The shouts of
69 XX | mysterious personage and the president of the Gun Club.~Barbicane,
70 XX | been coldly spoken, the president of the Gun Club and the
71 XXI | was being discussed by the president and the captain— this dreadful,
72 XXI | Maston, ex abrupto, “our president was publicly insulted during
73 XXI | to unknown friends, the president and the captain had, as
74 XXI | a rifle? Barbicane, the president, my best friend?”~The worthy
75 XXI | Gun Club thought that his president must be known by all the
76 XXI | duel between you.”~“Between President Barbicane and myself,” gravely
77 XXI | feeling, “I am a friend of the president’s, his alter ego, his second
78 XXI | Michel Ardan then told the president how the captain had been
79 XXI | certainly,” replied the president.~“And our friend Nicholl
80 XXI | for the decision of the president.~“Well?” said Michel. “There
81 XXII | affair of Captain Nicholl and President Barbicane, as well as its
82 XXII | received a message from the President of the United States, an
83 XXIV | of the subscription, the president of the Gun Club had credited
84 XXV | struggles were undergone by President Barbicane! In vain had he
85 XXV | of the Columbiad; but the president, having surprised him with
86 XXV | dear Ardan,” replied the president, “but our projectile-vehicle
87 XXV | captain, who forthwith paid President Barbicane the sum of three
88 XXVI | the forehead of his dear president.~“Can I not go?” he said, “
89 XXVIII| her a projectile. Their president, Barbicane, the promoter
90 XXVIII| members of the Gun Club, President Barbicane, Major Elphinstone,
91 XXVIII| These questions determined President Barbicane, assisted by Murchison
92 XXVIII| carried in triumph, reconciled President Barbicane to his mortal
93 XXVIII| travelers, Michel Ardan, President Barbicane, and Captain Nicholl,
94 I | lost three bets with our president, as the necessary funds
95 I | thousand dollars to the president; four thousand because the
96 II | Ardan and Nicholl raised the president of the Gun Club and laid
97 II | an idea!” exclaimed the president.~And this double hypothesis
98 II | was singularly high. The president drew a thermometer from
99 II | you to life? Is not the president’s shoulder still bleeding
100 II | Well now,” murmured the president “why did we not hear the
101 II | however, did not prevent the president from exclaiming:~“No, my
102 II | been at his strong-box, the president drew forth his notebook,
103 II | the powerful asteroid. The president caught at a glance the consequences
104 II | well, my friends,” said the president, “but the insoluble question
105 II | The explanation given by President Barbicane was correct. The
106 IV | night?”~“No,” answered the president.~“Of our Cambridge friends.
107 IV | you are as cunning as our president.”~“No, Michel; the difficult
108 IV | The devil!” cried the president, making a gesture of despair.~“
109 V | Nicholl understood that the president was deducting from the terrestrial
110 V | one which could produce a President Barbicane. Ah, now we are
111 V | body out into space.”~The president thought for some moments,
112 V | body into the sea; but, as President Barbicane suggested, they
113 VI | it?” asked Barbicane.~The president approached the window, and
114 VII | Nicholl.~“And Barbicane, the president,” howled Michel.~“Not a
115 VII | howled Michel.~“Not a president elected by the nation,”
116 VII | Barbicane.~“Very well, a president elected by the congress,”
117 VII | Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah! for President Barbicane,” exclaimed Nicholl.~“
118 VII | vociferated Michel Ardan.~Then the president and the senate struck up
119 VIII | them?”~“A joke, my worthy president, a simple joke, which has
120 XII | My friends,” said the president, in a serious voice, “I
121 XII | order to be able to follow President Barbicane’s observations.~
122 XIII | moderate, was inexplicable to President Barbicane. At that distance
123 XIII | Ardan was watching near the president, when he noticed long white
124 XIII | excite yourself, my worthy president,” replied Michel; “might
125 XIV | tone and gestures of the president, “on the contrary, when
126 XV | this,” answered the grave president: “If ever we begin this
127 XVIII | decision was consigned by President Barbicane to his notebook,
128 XX | his leveling operations, President Barbicane writing out his
129 XX | midshipman, “but cannot President Barbicane write?”~A burst
130 XXIII | enthusiasm. The notes of President Barbicane’s voyage were
131 XXIII | carriage was reserved for President Barbicane, Colonel Nicholl,
132 XXIII | seek to make some use of President Barbicane’s attempt.~Thus,
133 XXIII | Interstellary Communication.” President, Barbicane; vice-president,
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