Chapter
1 I | continued the famous James T. Maston, scratching with his steel
2 I | invention of the Hon. J. T. Maston, by which, at its first
3 I | whale-oil.”~“What!” roared J. T. Maston, “shall we not employ these
4 I | too true,” replied J. T. Maston, with fresh violence; “there
5 I | Well, then,” replied J. T. Maston, “why should not England
6 I | United States,” cried J. T. Maston, “and see how he will receive
7 I | By Jove!” cried J. T. Maston, “he mustn’t count on my
8 I | Meanwhile,” replied J. T. Maston, “allow me to say that,
9 VII | Major Elphinstone, and J. T. Maston, to whom were confided the
10 VII | word,” here broke in J. T. Maston. Permission having been
11 VII | general.~“Ah!” groaned J. T. Maston, “if my mortar had not burst——”~“
12 VII | quickly replied J. T. Maston, “must be big enough to
13 VII | So, then,” cried J. T. Maston, “our projectile need not
14 VIII | not enough,” cried J. T. Maston impetuously.~“I agree with
15 VIII | Ridiculous!” rejoined Maston. “As well take a pistol.”~“
16 VIII | superb idea, though,” said Maston.~“But impracticable,” replied
17 VIII | In a moment,” replied Maston. Then, dashing off some
18 VIII | hundred and one dollars.”~Maston, the major, and the general
19 IX | dear major,” said J. T. Maston, “you will get to this,
20 IX | powder at all.”~“Our friend Maston is always at his jokes,
21 IX | complete.”~“We must have,” said Maston, “several touch-holes, so
22 IX | hundred thousand,” screamed Maston.~A moment of silence followed
23 IX | shall surprise our friend Maston, then, by stigmatizing his
24 IX | thousand pounds?” shouted Maston, leaping from his seat.~“
25 IX | What matter?” cried J. T. Maston.~“Finally, it imparts to
26 IX | At this juncture J. T. Maston could not repress his emotion;
27 IX | a bagatelle,” said J. T. Maston.~
28 XIII | Baltimore, accompanied by J. T. Maston, Major Elphinstone, and
29 XIII | road.”~“Pooh!” cried J. T. Maston, mounting his steed.~“All
30 XIII | answer to a question of J. T. Maston, replied:~“My worthy friend,
31 XIII | at the last,” cried J. T. Maston.~About ten A.M. the little
32 XIII | brilliantly plumaged birds.~J. T. Maston and the major could not
33 XIII | fifteen to eighteen feet long. Maston courageously menaced them
34 XV | grand ceremony,” said J. T. Maston to his friend Barbicane.~“
35 XV | I must be very careful, Maston. The casting of the Columbiad
36 XV | personal interest. J. T. Maston became their cicerone. He
37 XVI | could do nothing. J. T. Maston escaped roasting by a miracle.
38 XVI | August,” exclaimed J. T. Maston one morning, “only four
39 XVI | rendezvous.~The ecstasy of J. T. Maston knew no bounds, and he narrowly
40 XVI | down the president, J. T. Maston, Major Elphinstone, General
41 XVI | gigantic Columbiad.~J. T. Maston was no longer master of
42 XVIII | with the exception of J. T. Maston, who exclaimed, “It is a
43 XVIII | board. Among others J. T. Maston got his hook fixed in the
44 XIX | and on his left by J. T. Maston, more radiant than the midday
45 XIX | said it was that of J. T. Maston). “Distance does not exist!”
46 XIX | course, no other than J. T. Maston. And, in all probability,
47 XXI | Last night,” cried J. T. Maston, ex abrupto, “our president
48 XXI | Michel Ardan.”~While J. T. Maston was speaking, Michel Ardan,
49 XXI | was during this walk that Maston told Ardan the state of
50 XXI | been leveled by his axe.~Maston ran toward him, saying, “
51 XXI | hour.”~“Too late!” cried Maston.~“Have you heard any gunshots?”
52 XXI | What is to be done?” said Maston.~“We must go into the wood,
53 XXI | intended for us.”~“Ah!” cried Maston, in a tone which could not
54 XXI | penetrate. Michel Ardan and Maston walked side by side in silence
55 XXI | must be all over,” said Maston, discouraged. “A man like
56 XXI | we came too late?” cried Maston in tones of despair.~For
57 XXI | no reply to make, he and Maston resuming their walk in silence.
58 XXI | pursuit, when all at once Maston stopped.~“Hush!” said he, “
59 XXI | turning toward us,” answered Maston.~“And it is?”~“Captain Nicholl!”~“
60 XXI | Captain,” said J. T. Maston, with much feeling, “I am
61 XXI | these jokes——”~“Our friend Maston is not joking,” replied
62 XXI | pursuit was still fruitless. Maston was oppressed by sinister
63 XXI | on Nicholl, when suddenly Maston paused.~The motionless figure
64 XXI | foliage.~“It is he!” said Maston.~Barbicane never moved.
65 XXI | will act as a spring— ah! Maston,” cried Barbicane, “you
66 XXI | What?” exclaimed J. T. Maston, stupefied.~The two rivals,
67 XXII | mention a proposal of J. T. Maston’s. When the secretary of
68 XXII | contain so many passengers. Maston, in despair, went in search
69 XXII | room in there,” said J. T. Maston, regretting that his height
70 XXII | squirrel belonging to J. T. Maston, and of which he was particularly
71 XXII | prison.~Ardan, Barbicane, Maston, and Nicholl were present
72 XXII | its fellow-traveler!~J. T. Maston grieved much for the loss
73 XXIII | energetically claimed by J. T. Maston.~“Since I am not to go,”
74 XXIII | opened. The friends of J. T. Maston had been all along in a
75 XXV | perpetual state of alarm. J. T. Maston seconded him to the best
76 XXV | indeed!” replied J. T. Maston.~“Nothing would be simpler,”
77 XXVI | playing pranks with J. T. Maston. In one word, he was the
78 XXVI | Ardan was touched. J. T. Maston had found in his own dry
79 XXVII | seriously injured. J. T. Maston, who, despite all dictates
80 XXVII | the 10th, no change! J. T. Maston went nearly mad, and great
81 XXVIII| Messrs. Belfast and J. T. Maston, 12th of~December, at 8:
82 XXVIII| their devoted friend J. T. Maston.~Besides, he never let them
83 XXVIII| the secretary Joseph T. Maston, and other learned men,
84 XXVIII| nights.~The worthy Joseph T. Maston, the staunchest friend of
85 XXVIII| Long’s Peak by Joseph T. Maston and Belfast to the gentlemen
86 XXVIII| detected by Messrs. Belfast and Maston— that it had deviated from
87 XXVIII| the impatient Joseph T. Maston should have done before
88 XXVIII| see it; and what Joseph T. Maston had seen, or thought he
89 XXVIII| worthy friend, Joseph T. Maston, was wasting his time, while
90 II | if one of them— Joseph T. Maston for example— could have
91 III | Florida.”~“But then J. T. Maston will think we are roasted!”~“
92 VII | imitating the worthy Joseph T. Maston, began to acquire a degree
93 VII | to-day; ideas worthy of J. T. Maston. But I have a notion that,
94 VII | not return to earth, J. T. Maston will be able to come to
95 VII | continued Michel, “yes, Maston will come, and with him
96 VII | the moon! Hurrah for J. T. Maston!”~It is probable that, if
97 VII | that, if the Hon. J. T. Maston did not hear the hurrahs
98 XIX | the dearest of all, J. T. Maston. At that moment, the honorable
99 XIX | of a satellite! Had J. T. Maston given this unexpected news
100 XX | Bronsfield, “that J. T. Maston will one day join his friends.”~“
101 XXI | CHAPTER XXI~ J. T. MASTON RECALLED~“It is ‘they’ come
102 XXI | third to the Hon. J. T. Maston, Long’s Peak, Rocky Mountains;
103 XXI | dispatch, in which J. T. Maston and Belfast announced that
104 XXI | decidely contradicting J. T. Maston’s telegram, two parties
105 XXI | Francisco, the Honorable J. T. Maston was undergoing the greatest
106 XXI | taking observation, J. T. Maston and Belfast were placed
107 XXI | impatience of the fuming J. T. Maston and his not less impatient
108 XXI | could not be seen, J. T. Maston maintaining that “it had
109 XXI | projectile!” repeated J. T. Maston.~“No,” answered Belfast; “
110 XXI | observing the lunar disc, J. T. Maston abusing the learned Belfast
111 XXI | cry.~“What!” said J. T. Maston.~“The projectile!”~“Well!”~“
112 XXI | He turned toward J. T. Maston. The unfortunate man, imprudently
113 XXI | reflector.~He breathed. J. T. Maston, caught by his metal hook,
114 XXI | has fallen?” asked J. T. Maston.~“Into the Pacific!”~“Let
115 XXI | projectile,” replied J. T. Maston, “and the sooner the better.”~
116 XXII | living.~“Yes,” repeated J. T. Maston incessantly, whose confidence
117 XXII | must act quickly. J. T. Maston hurried the workmen day
118 XXII | were put on board. J. T. Maston, Engineer Murchison, and
119 XXII | At last!” exclaimed J. T. Maston.~“Shall we begin?” asked
120 XXII | would be dreadful.~J. T. Maston, the brothers Blomsberry,
121 XXII | minutes past two, J. T. Maston and his companions had reached
122 XXII | where are they?” cried J. T. Maston. And the poor man called
123 XXII | To-morrow,” said J. T. Maston, as he set foot on the bridge
124 XXII | another spot?”~“Yes.”~J. T. Maston did not doubt of their final
125 XXII | possibly,” answered J. T. Maston resolutely, “but their morale
126 XXII | of finding it.~But J. T. Maston would not hear of going
127 XXII | Commander Blomsberry, J. T. Maston, and the delegates of the
128 XXII | it was the brave J. T. Maston who had just fallen all
129 XXII | boats were put to sea. J. T. Maston and his friends had rushed
130 XXII | alongside, that of J. T. Maston, and J. T. Maston rushed
131 XXII | J. T. Maston, and J. T. Maston rushed to the broken window.~
132 XXIII | special favor, the Hon. J. T. Maston, secretary of the Gun Club.
133 XXIII | Nicholl; secretary, J. T. Maston; director of movements,
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