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1 XVII | arrive by steamer Atlanta.~ MICHEL ARDAN.~
2 XVIII | but little discretion, and Michel Ardan’s proposition ran
3 XVIII | telegram, under the name of Michel Ardan, on his way here?
4 XVIII | board a Frenchman named Michel Ardan?”~Two hours afterward
5 XVIII | passengers by the name of Michel Ardan.”~That very evening
6 XVIII | conceal the emotion, called “Michel Ardan.”~“Here!” replied
7 XVIII | other, these were certainly Michel Ardan and the Yankee Barbicane;
8 XVIII | so personal a form, that Michel Ardan, after having shaken
9 XVIII | Barbicane, I suppose?” said Michel Ardan, in a tone of voice
10 XVIII | crowd 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 all. At three o’clock Michel Ardan made his appearance,
13 XIX | staggered at this bold theory. Michel Ardan perceived the fact.~“
14 XIX | feel certain of it,” said Michel Ardan.~“Nevertheless,” retorted
15 XIX | sun.”~“I regret,” replied Michel Ardan, “that I have not
16 XIX | going to see!’”~Whether Michel Ardan’s antagonist hazarded
17 XX | are right, sir,” replied Michel Ardan; “the discussion has
18 XX | Really.”~“Sir,” replied Michel, “pleasantry apart, I have
19 XX | formidable proportions, if Michel Ardan had not quieted it
20 XX | really is too much!” cried Michel Ardan’s adversary. “I do
21 XX | Who, may I ask?” demanded Michel Ardan in an imperious tone.~“
22 XX | the Gun Club shared with Michel Ardan triumphal honors.
23 XX | throughout this triumphant march. Michel Ardan took it all with evident
24 XX | the port of Tampa Town.~Michel Ardan managed fortunately
25 XX | difficult problem proposed by Michel Ardan during the discussion
26 XXI | adversary became a man-hunter— Michel Ardan was resting from the
27 XXI | stop him, and that man is Michel Ardan.”~While J. T. Maston
28 XXI | T. Maston was speaking, Michel Ardan, without interrupting
29 XXI | What demons you are!” cried Michel Ardan, when his companion
30 XXI | better make haste.”~Though Michel Ardan and he had crossed
31 XXI | eye could not penetrate. Michel Ardan and Maston walked
32 XXI | But surely,” replied Michel Ardan, “since we entered
33 XXI | there!”~“Some one?” repeated Michel Ardan.~“Yes; a man! He seems
34 XXI | Nicholl!”~“Nicholl?” cried Michel Ardan, feeling a terrible
35 XXI | Let us go to him,” said Michel Ardan, “and find out the
36 XXI | a brave man.”~He turned. Michel Ardan was before him, repeating
37 XXI | And a kindhearted one!”~“Michel Ardan!” cried the captain. “
38 XXI | hiding?”~“Nicholl!” said Michel Ardan, “this is not courteous!
39 XXI | When we have found him, Michel Ardan tells you this, there
40 XXI | projectile!”~“Indeed?” said Michel Ardan, looking at the captain
41 XXI | forgotten— I am ready!”~Michel Ardan interfered, without
42 XXI | anger is not dangerous.”~Michel Ardan then told the president
43 XXI | something quite unexpected; Michel Ardan saw this, and determined
44 XXI | president.~“Well?” said Michel. “There is now no fear of
45 XXI | hip! hip! hurrah!” cried Michel, giving a hand to each of
46 XXII | denouement. From that day forth, Michel Ardan had not one moment’
47 XXII | the height of his triumph, Michel Ardan had to encounter all
48 XXII | accepted the proposal of Michel Ardan, he determined to
49 XXII | despair, went in search of Michel Ardan, who counseled him
50 XXII | Unquestionably,” replied Michel Ardan; “but we shall not.”~
51 XXII | but to go!~Two days later Michel Ardan received a message
52 XXIII | 10th of that month, where Michel Ardan, Barbicane, and Nicholl
53 XXIII | get crushed, they must, as Michel Ardan said, be made of very
54 XXV | gathered round the enclosure. Michel Ardan had volunteered to
55 XXV | have to deal with,” said Michel Ardan. “Men or beasts may
56 XXV | included among the necessaries. Michel Ardan, indeed, was anxious
57 XXV | inspired such confidence, that Michel Ardan carried all the Gun
58 XXV | engagements.~“Now,” said Michel Ardan, “I have only one
59 XXVI | save only the heart of Michel Ardan. That imperturbable
60 XXVI | firm and measured step. Michel Ardan, always easy, dressed
61 XXVI | his feverish gayety, even Michel Ardan was touched. J. T.
62 XXVIII| Nicholl, Barbicane, and Michel Ardan were certain to be
63 XXVIII| intrepid adventurer was Michel Ardan. He landed in America,
64 XXVIII| destination. These bold travelers, Michel Ardan, President Barbicane,
65 XXVIII| and the audacious humor of Michel Ardan. Besides this, it
66 I | As ten o’clock struck, Michel Ardan, Barbicane, and Nicholl,
67 I | my dear companions,” said Michel Ardan, “let us make ourselves
68 I | in the shape of a dome.~Michel Ardan examined everything,
69 I | advances an inch!”~While Michel Ardan was speaking, Barbicane
70 I | Nicholl.~“Well!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, in a good-humored
71 I | which to investigate——”~“Michel,” said Barbicane, “during
72 I | protect us?”~“I hope so, Michel,” replied Barbicane gently, “
73 I | Ah, the joker!” exclaimed Michel Ardan. “He hopes!—He is
74 I | Barbicane.~“Humph!” said Michel Ardan, “it is not easy;
75 I | Nicholl.~“Then,” replied Michel Ardan, ready to suit the
76 I | I may cheer up,” said Michel Ardan.~“Do you approve of
77 I | is not a man,” exclaimed Michel; “he is a chronometer with
78 I | Barbicane.~“There are,” said Michel Ardan, “just as there are
79 I | practical men!” exclaimed Michel Ardan; “I admire you the
80 I | little minutes!” replied Michel Ardan; “and we are enclosed
81 I | interplanetary space.”~“Enough, Michel, enough!” said Barbicane,
82 I | friends.”~“Yes,” exclaimed Michel Ardan, more moved than he
83 I | the religious Barbicane.~Michel Ardan and Nicholl stretched
84 II | Barbicane, Nicholl, and Michel Ardan— did they still breathe?
85 II | getting on its knees. It was Michel Ardan. He felt himself all
86 II | sonorous “Hem!” and then said:~“Michel Ardan is whole. How about
87 II | betrayed it; and in that case Michel Ardan could not have carried
88 II | Each in turn,” replied Michel Ardan. “I began with you,
89 II | really moving?” repeated Michel Ardan.~“Or quietly resting
90 II | the Gulf of Mexico?” added Michel Ardan.~“What an idea!” exclaimed
91 II | intense cold.~“What!” said Michel Ardan. “According to your
92 II | atmosphere?”~“Without a doubt, Michel. Listen to me. It is fifty-five
93 II | and——”~“And then,” said Michel Ardan, “friend Nicholl has
94 II | goodness, captain,” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “that hypothesis
95 II | Hurrah! hurrah!” exclaimed Michel Ardan and Nicholl in one
96 II | placed it in his pocketbook. Michel Ardan, taking off his hat,
97 II | in space.~“Ah!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “What is that? another
98 II | it.~“By Jove!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “we shall run into
99 II | journey to you,” exclaimed Michel Ardan, with a sigh of relief. “
100 II | it possible!” exclaimed Michel Ardan; “the earth then has
101 II | French leagues,” exclaimed Michel Ardan. “That beats the express
102 II | vanishing globe.~“Yes,” said Michel Ardan, “do not let us be
103 II | interior and the exterior.~Michel Ardan knelt by the glass.
104 II | silver crescent?”~“Doubtless, Michel. In four days, when the
105 II | That the earth?” repeated Michel Ardan, looking with all
106 II | thousand in an hour. But Michel Ardan, disdaining scientific
107 II | What have you found?” asked Michel Ardan, jumping from his
108 III | is the dogs!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, rising at once.~“
109 III | Nicholl.~“By Jove!” replied Michel, “we have forgotten them.”~“
110 III | without much persuasion, Michel Ardan encouraging her with
111 III | is Adam?”~“Adam?” replied Michel; “Adam cannot be far off;
112 III | state.~“The devil!” said Michel.~They brought the unfortunate
113 III | take care of you,” said Michel; “we are responsible for
114 III | circle.~“By Jove!” said Michel Ardan, “I am really sorry
115 III | Our likenesses!” exclaimed Michel Ardan; “They are no more
116 III | Which means to say?” asked Michel Ardan.~“That it is half-past
117 III | Nicholl.~“Very well,” retorted Michel; “then it is impossible
118 III | imperious laws of hunger. Michel Ardan, as a Frenchman, was
119 III | an English eating-house. Michel, who was imaginative, maintained
120 III | nature,” said the amiable Michel) succeeded the dish of meat;
121 III | earth.~“The sun!” exclaimed Michel Ardan.~“No doubt,” replied
122 III | expected it.”~“But,” said Michel, “the conical shadow which
123 III | I should think so,” said Michel Ardan. “With a little earth
124 III | sublime captain,” exclaimed Michel Ardan, clasping his friend’
125 III | of grain and shrubs which Michel Ardan hoped to transplant
126 III | unparalleled dexterity. Michel Ardan chatted first with
127 IV | sounded through the car. Michel Ardan, who was the first
128 IV | Nicholl.~“Why no, my friends,” Michel answered quickly; “it was
129 IV | his companion.~“Yes,” said Michel; “a joke in my country.
130 IV | weight.”~“So be it,” said Michel; “but, once more; how could
131 IV | that calculation?” asked Michel Ardan.~“Perfectly. Nicholl
132 IV | old Barbicane,” replied Michel; “they might have cut off
133 IV | you have said ‘Algebra.’”~“Michel,” said Barbicane, “can you
134 IV | advanced.”~“Then,” said Michel Ardan, in his sly tone, “
135 IV | raising his head, showed Michel Ardan a page covered with
136 IV | that means?”~“Of course, Michel,” replied the captain. “
137 IV | pretend, Nicholl,” asked Michel, “that by means of these
138 IV | as our president.”~“No, Michel; the difficult part is what
139 IV | That is something!” replied Michel Ardan, who for his life
140 IV | understand no more,” said Michel.~“It is a very simple calculation,”
141 IV | simple as I am,” retorted Michel.~“That means, that when
142 IV | That I admit,” answered Michel; “and I understand it, although
143 IV | value.”~“Finish me!” replied Michel.~Barbicane took the paper,
144 IV | Barbicane watched him, while Michel Ardan nursed a growing headache
145 IV | What is the matter?” asked Michel Ardan, much surprised.~“
146 IV | the projectile!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, jumping as if it
147 V | examining his calculations. Michel Ardan was muttering:~“That
148 V | Very well then,” said Michel Ardan quietly; “as we are
149 V | should we not succeed?” said Michel Ardan; “why should we not
150 V | to the Americans,” added Michel Ardan, “the only people
151 V | contingency, my friends,” replied Michel; “you have only to speak,
152 V | trifles?”~“Certainly,” replied Michel, “and not only to distract
153 V | from them.”~“What!” said Michel; “you believe that they
154 V | strong.”~“Then,” continued Michel, “I repeat it, why have
155 V | Old Barbicane,” said Michel, “you have an answer for
156 V | her breakfast.~“Ah!” said Michel Ardan, “in our discussion
157 V | you see, Barbicane,” said Michel, “we should have made a
158 V | have failed us.”~“Oh!” said Michel, “we might have squeezed
159 V | asked Barbicane. “Why,” said Michel, “they make their skins
160 V | Nicholl.~“No,” answered Michel, “he is dead! There,” added
161 V | wound. It was quite dead. Michel Ardan looked at his friends
162 V | precautions.”~“Why?” asked Michel.~“For two reasons which
163 V | only the oxygen, my worthy Michel; and with regard to that,
164 V | out poor Satellite?” said Michel.~“Agreed; but we must act
165 V | the second reason?” asked Michel.~“The second reason is that
166 V | Nicholl.~“Who knows?” said Michel Ardan. “But, in admitting
167 V | said Barbicane, “there is Michel with his ideas.”~“And,”
168 V | ideas.”~“And,” continued Michel, “do we not know that in
169 V | below zero.”~“Pooh!” said Michel, “that’s nothing!”~“It is
170 V | mean by a vacuum?” asked Michel. “Is it perfectly such?”~“
171 V | were carefully drawn, while Michel, quite grieved, prepared
172 VI | Nicholl always serious, Michel Ardan always enthusiastic.
173 VI | breakfasting, a question of Michel’s, relating to the projectile,
174 VI | which is worth repeating. Michel, supposing it to be roughly
175 VI | let us suppose so,” said Michel.~“It is an impossible supposition,”
176 VI | death.”~“Burned?” exclaimed Michel, “by Jove! I am sorry it
177 VI | in motion.”~“Well,” said michel, “that is an ingenious theory!”~“
178 VI | I understand,” replied Michel, “perfectly. For example,
179 VI | could not help smiling at Michel’s reply; then, returning
180 VI | to vapor.”~“Well,” said Michel, “that is a way of ending
181 VI | heat for the sun,” replied Michel Ardan, “of which the inhabitants
182 VI | Oh, dear!” murmured Michel, “the figures are coming.”~“
183 VI | is the solar heat?” asked Michel.~“It is equal to that produced
184 VI | not roast us!” exclaimed Michel.~“No,” replied Barbicane, “
185 VI | all is for the best,” said Michel, “and that this atmosphere
186 VI | in the moon.”~“Bah!” said Michel, always hopeful. “If there
187 VI | mountains; that is all.” And Michel, rising, went to look at
188 VI | country, that!” exclaimed Michel. “Never mind! I wish I was
189 VI | semidiameter——”~“Oh!” said Michel. “Do speak plainly, you
190 VI | its center.”~“Then,” said Michel, in a merry tone, “why are
191 VI | reason satisfies me,” replied Michel. “Besides we shall see when
192 VI | an idea!”~“Yes,” replied Michel, with an amiable swagger, “
193 VI | idea does not spring from Michel,” answered Nicholl.~“Well,
194 VI | this hypothesis?” asked Michel.~“None whatever,” said Barbicane, “
195 VI | not know.”~“Ah!” exclaimed Michel, “what hundred of volumes
196 VI | Nicholl.~“How time goes,” said Michel, “in the conversation of
197 VI | becoming a well!”~Saying which, Michel hoisted himself to the roof
198 VI | Nothing new to note!~When Michel Ardan came down, he went
199 VI | that machine?” continued Michel Ardan. “Is it one of the
200 VI | that we are!” exclaimed Michel.~“Why that expletive?” asked
201 VI | But if it did not fail, Michel, your density being less
202 VI | We must!”~“Ah!” exclaimed Michel, in a load voice.~“What
203 VII | depths.~“Besides,” observed Michel Ardan, “a plain is easier
204 VII | face.~“Face, indeed!” said Michel Ardan; “but I am sorry for
205 VII | spite of his preoccupation, Michel Ardan did not forget to
206 VII | crowned the repast, causing Michel Ardan to remark that the
207 VII | perfect order; so each morning Michel visited the escape regulators,
208 VII | know, my friends,” said Michel Ardan, “that if one of us
209 VII | Nicholl.~“Ah!” continued Michel, “what I regret is not being
210 VII | projectile.”~“Well, old Michel,” replied Barbicane, “you
211 VII | projectile are forbidden.”~Michel Ardan allowed himself to
212 VII | leave a country,” added Michel, “When we have not yet arrived
213 VII | Barbicane.~“And I,” said Michel, “if I had known how to
214 VII | Nicholl.~“I quite approve of Michel’s words,” said Barbicane; “
215 VII | weight.”~“Enough,” said Michel with animation. “Let it
216 VII | volcanoes.”~“Well thought of, Michel,” said Barbicane in a convinced
217 VII | that.”~“Hurrah!” exclaimed Michel; “these meteors are handy
218 VII | quintupled it!” exclaimed Michel, with whom the verb took
219 VII | stars of the Union!” said Michel, “I have nothing but impracticable
220 VII | to-day?”~“Yes,” continued Michel, “yes, Maston will come,
221 VII | do not know!” exclaimed Michel, with a bellow which provoked
222 VII | Well, I know,” replied Michel.~“Speak, then,” cried Nicholl,
223 VII | it suits me,” exclaimed Michel, seizing his companions’
224 VII | going.”~“Why?” exclaimed Michel, jumping a yard high, “why?
225 VII | no Selenites?” exclaimed Michel in a threatening tone.~“
226 VII | Nicholl.~“Captain,” said Michel, “do not repreat that insolence,
227 VII | them.”~“Yes,” exclaimed Michel, who was not particular; “
228 VII | be the congress,” cried Michel.~“And I the senate,” retorted
229 VII | the president,” howled Michel.~“Not a president elected
230 VII | by the congress,” cried Michel; “and as I am the congress,
231 VII | hip! hip!” vociferated Michel Ardan.~Then the president
232 VIII | disastrous? A simple blunder of Michel’s, which, fortunately, Nicholl
233 VIII | got up and demanded from Michel a supplementary repast.
234 VIII | a supplementary repast. Michel, utterly done up, did not
235 VIII | disorders in the system. Michel had blunderingly opened
236 VIII | does over his wine.~When Michel learned his share of the
237 VIII | the sake of its health!”~Michel spoke with so much animation
238 VIII | is all very well, friend Michel,” said he, “but will you
239 VIII | awkward things!” exclaimed Michel. “The oxygen has made them
240 VIII | not wise then?” replied Michel Ardan.~After this philosophical
241 VIII | the air.~“Ah!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “that is rather an
242 VIII | too, placed in space by Michel, reproduced, but without
243 VIII | nothing themselves.~Suddenly Michel, taking a spring, left the
244 VIII | it possible?” exclaimed Michel; “and yet it is so. Ah!
245 VIII | upon the roof,” replied Michel.~“No,” said Barbicane, “
246 VIII | a fact.”~“Calm yourself, Michel,” replied Nicholl; “no upset
247 VIII | the neutral line,” cried Michel; “then let us do as the
248 VIII | slight side movement brought Michel back toward the padded side;
249 VIII | enterprise, and Nicholl and Michel Ardan shared Barbicane’s
250 VIII | neutralization of the laws of weight. Michel Ardan, always enthusiastic,
251 VIII | modern society!”~“Yes,” cried Michel, full of his subject, “destroy
252 VIII | hat on your head, worthy Michel; nor your house, whose stones
253 VIII | That is tiresome,” retorted Michel; “nothing like these matter-of-fact
254 VIII | But console yourself, Michel,” continued Barbicane, “
255 VIII | we shall feel it?” asked Michel.~“Evidently, as two hundred
256 VIII | in the moon!” exclaimed Michel.~“Yes,” replied Nicholl; “
257 VIII | Lilliputians!” ejaculated Michel; “I shall play the part
258 VIII | solar world.”~“One moment, Michel,” answered Barbicane; “if
259 VIII | high.”~“By Jove!” exclaimed Michel; “I should be nothing more
260 VIII | again.”~“The devil!” said Michel; “one would want a portable
261 IX | are sceptical,” retorted Michel Ardan. “We shall arrive,
262 IX | as Barbicane’s enemy and Michel Ardan’s adversary. To Captain
263 IX | would smash like glass, Michel replied that he would break
264 IX | audacious adventurer like Michel Ardan.~Conversation was
265 IX | diverted from our route,” said Michel; “but why?”~“I very much
266 IX | have aimed badly?” asked Michel.~“I do not think so,” replied
267 IX | then, Barbicane,” said Michel, “do you wish to know my
268 IX | of attraction or other.”~Michel Ardan’s indifference did
269 IX | ask but one thing,” said Michel; “that we may pass near
270 IX | our path.”~“What?” said Michel Ardan.~“What do you mean?”
271 IX | brush us as it passed,” said Michel.~“What does that matter?
272 X | its very obliquity, gave Michel Ardan some hopes of striking
273 X | with merciless logic.~“No, Michel, no! We can only reach the
274 X | in a tone which quenched Michel Ardan’s last hope.~The portion
275 XI | Argonauts. So at least it was in Michel Ardan’s eyes. To him it
276 XI | up to the present time. Michel Ardan was right when he
277 XI | man.”~In speaking thus, Michel made his prosaic companions
278 XI | And was not the fantastic Michel right in thus interpreting
279 XII | at this moment?” asked Michel.~“At the northern part of
280 XII | rays.~“That is—?” asked Michel.~“Copernicus,” replied Barbicane.~“
281 XII | splendid radiation!” said Michel. “One could hardly see a
282 XII | more beautiful,” retorted Michel Ardan.~At this moment the
283 XII | these lines of light?” asked Michel; “for I cannot believe that
284 XII | are at, resembles?” said Michel.~“No,” replied Nicholl.~“
285 XII | us be serious,” replied Michel quietly; “and instead of
286 XII | difficult to please,” answered Michel.~“My worthy friend,” continued
287 XII | Well answered,” exclaimed Michel. “That will teach me to
288 XII | Selenites are not fools,” said Michel.~“A singular idea,” replied
289 XII | than on the earth?” said Michel.~“But if the Selenites are
290 XIII | decide upon the cause of it.~Michel Ardan was watching near
291 XIII | parallel with each other.~Michel, with his usual readiness,
292 XIII | at all events,” retorted Michel Ardan; “but what laborers
293 XIII | Rifts? stuff!” replied Michel mildly; “but what do you
294 XIII | must, however, allow that Michel Ardan had “an idea,” and
295 XIII | worthy president,” replied Michel; “might it not be possible
296 XIII | Barbicane.~“I like,” retorted Michel Ardan, “to explain what
297 XIII | mineral.~“Ah, indeed!” said Michel Ardan, a little out of countenance; “
298 XIII | visible on the black sky.~Michel Ardan wanted to open one
299 XIII | whatever of the satellite, Michel, carried along by its motion,
300 XIV | Melted, disappeared!” Michel Ardan exclaimed, aghast.~
301 XIV | radiant orb!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “which forces us
302 XIV | It is the sun!” continued Michel.~“It is the moon!” retorted
303 XIV | direction.”~“Well,” replied Michel Ardan, “as the matter is
304 XIV | meeting with no contradiction, Michel prepared the repast in a
305 XIV | to see the moon!” replied Michel.~“Very well!” continued
306 XIV | Nicely worded!” said Michel, “slightly academical perhaps.”~“
307 XIV | for you, Nicholl, because Michel will probably not understand.”~“
308 XIV | understand.”~“Thank you,” said Michel.~“Indeed,” continued Barbicane, “
309 XIV | Barbicane.~“One moment,” said Michel, interrupting his grave
310 XIV | On the contrary,” said Michel, imitating the tone and
311 XIV | Barbicane. “Do you know, Michel, that, for an amateur, you
312 XIV | intelligent.”~“Yes,” replied Michel coolly, “we are all so on
313 XIV | Never mind,” replied Michel; “if we ever become Selenites,
314 XIV | be a consideration,” said Michel.~Breakfast over, the observers
315 XIV | Fahrenheit.~“Well!” observed Michel, “we cannot reasonably complain
316 XIV | Barbicane.~“Then,” continued Michel Ardan, “would not this be
317 XIV | any case it is cold,” said Michel. “See! the steam of the
318 XIV | Nothing is easier,” replied Michel Ardan, who was never at
319 XIV | With the hand,” replied Michel.~“Well, then, my friend,
320 XIV | The devil!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “it is cold enough
321 XV | arose on this subject, and Michel Ardan, always ready with
322 XV | get near enough?” replied Michel.~“Pure mistake,” replied
323 XV | upon it.”~“But then,” asked Michel, “I shall be curious to
324 XV | grand words,” exclaimed Michel Ardan; “one knows directly
325 XV | the sides.”~“Ah! ah!” said Michel, in a satisfied tone.~“It
326 XV | hyperbola?”~“The hyperbola, Michel, is a curve of the second
327 XV | it possible!” exclaimed Michel Ardan in a serious tone,
328 XV | Barbicane cared little for Michel Ardan’s fun. They were deep
329 XV | couched in language which made Michel jump. The discussion was
330 XV | lasted so long that it made Michel very impatient.~“Now, gentlemen
331 XV | indefinitely.”~“Ah, savants!” cried Michel; “and what are either the
332 XV | drew this reflection from Michel, apparently a just one:~“
333 XV | said, Nicholl,” replied Michel Ardan. “What do you think,
334 XV | to say to that,” answered Michel Ardan. “Here is, however,
335 XV | volcano?”~“But, then,” said Michel Ardan, “in order to maintain
336 XV | Barbicane, Nicholl, and Michel Ardan, bathed in its white
337 XV | with salt.~“By Jove!” cried Michel Ardan, “we are hideous.
338 XV | wonderfully intense, that Michel, drawing Barbicane and Nicholl
339 XVI | studies. About five o’clock, Michel Ardan distributed, under
340 XVI | sun?” answered Nicholl and Michel Ardan.~“Yes, my friends,
341 XVI | the north pole,” replied Michel. “We have made the circuit
342 XVI | satellite, then?”~“Yes, my good Michel.”~“Then, no more hyperbolas,
343 XVI | Moon of the moon!” cried Michel Ardan.~“Only, I would have
344 XVII | of day.”~“Yes,” replied Michel Ardan, “imbibing as it were
345 XVII | had ever existed there.~Michel Ardan, however, thought
346 XVII | to the Asiatic Caucasus. Michel Ardan, with his accustomed
347 XVII | dispute the fact,” replied Michel Ardan.~Some minutes after
348 XVII | my friends,” exclaimed Michel, “can you picture to yourselves
349 XVII | Barbicane was not listening to Michel Ardan; he was contemplating
350 XVII | the southern hemisphere. Michel Ardan used every metaphor
351 XVII | times over.~“Ah!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, enthusiastic at the
352 XVIII | Eh! by Jove!” replied Michel Ardan, “it seems easy enough
353 XVIII | Barbicane.~“Indeed,” continued Michel. “It is enough to say that
354 XVIII | exclaimed Barbicane. “My brave Michel, your explanation is not
355 XVIII | lunar stomach-ache.” said Michel Ardan.~“Besides,” added
356 XVIII | Nasmyth was no fool!” replied Michel.~Long did the travelers,
357 XVIII | decide for or against it? Michel Ardan persuaded his two
358 XVIII | it your own way,” replied Michel.~“Here it is,” continued
359 XVIII | nothing about it,” answered Michel.~“And I answer in the negative,”
360 XVIII | which do not live,” replied Michel.~“Just so,” said Barbicane, “
361 XVIII | form our opinion?” said Michel.~“Yes,” replied Nicholl.~“
362 XVIII | Very well,” continued Michel Ardan, “the Scientific Commission
363 XVIII | extinct!”~“Then,” asked Michel, “the moon must be older
364 XVIII | they last six months,” said Michel.~“An argument of little
365 XVIII | you.”~“Astonish us?” said Michel Ardan.~“I firmly believe
366 XVIII | who can say,” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “that the moon did
367 XVIII | possible.”~“And so,” asked Michel Ardan, “humanity has disappeared
368 XVIII | clumsy savant,” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “for you make me
369 XVIII | impatience!”~“Very well, my good Michel,” replied Barbicane quietly; “
370 XVIII | thousand years!” exclaimed Michel. “Ah! I breathe again. Really
371 XIX | will become of us?” asked Michel Ardan.~“We don’t know,”
372 XIX | it may be,” interrupted Michel.~“Or,” continued Barbicane, “
373 XIX | at all consoling,” said Michel, “to pass to the state of
374 XIX | do not answer,” continued Michel impatiently.~“There is nothing
375 XIX | Subdue it?”~“Yes,” continued Michel, getting animated, “or else
376 XIX | No recrimination,” said Michel. “I do not complain, the
377 XIX | ask no better, my worthy Michel,” replied Barbicane, “but
378 XIX | weight.”~“Very well,” cried Michel Ardan in a decided voice; “
379 XIX | point of view. Certainly Michel had none but good ideas.~
380 XIX | the hour mattered little. Michel served his usual repast,
381 XIX | disturbed by a cry from Michel Ardan.~“By Jove!” he exclaimed, “
382 XIX | will do so.”~“When?” asked Michel.~“When the time comes. Observe,
383 XIX | nearer?”~“Just so,” replied Michel.~“Let us wait, then. By
384 XIX | lunar disc.”~“Bravo!” said Michel. “What we did not do, what
385 XIX | conclusion was a signal for Michel Ardan’s hips and hurrahs.
386 XIX | What a motion!” exclaimed Michel Ardan.~“It is forty hours
387 XIX | strength.”~“Never,” interrupted Michel.~“Well,” continued Nicholl, “
388 XIX | baritone.~“Certainly,” said Michel Ardan, finding himself alone, “
389 XIX | arms folded under his head, Michel slept in his turn.~But this
390 XIX | plunged in their calculations, Michel going and coming between
391 XIX | All is ready,” replied Michel Ardan, directing a lighted
392 XIX | clock,” said Barbicane.~Michel Ardan applied the lighted
393 XIX | Are we falling?” asked Michel Ardan, at length.~“No,”
394 XIX | falling!” said he.~“Ah!” cried Michel Ardan, “on to the moon?”~“
395 XIX | The devil!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, adding philosophically, “
396 XIX | hour.~“We are lost!” said Michel coolly.~“Very well! if we
397 XIX | In fact,” interrupted Michel Ardan, “the whole of the
398 XX | writing out his notes, and Michel Ardan embalming the lunar
399 XXI | adding that he could see Michel Ardan’s face looking through
400 XXII | Barbicane, Nicholl, and Michel Ardan was an international
401 XXII | Nicholl, Barbicane, and Michel Ardan, as if his unfortunate
402 XXII | merry voice, the voice of Michel Ardan, exclaiming in an
403 XXII | white all!”~Barbicane, Michel Ardan, and Nicholl were
404 XXIII | Barbicane, Nicholl, and Michel Ardan? No! and the ardent
405 XXIII | universal longing.~Barbicane, Michel Ardan, Nicholl, and the
406 XXIII | Barbicane, Colonel Nicholl, and Michel Ardan. At the whistle of
407 XXIII | director of movements, Michel Ardan.~And as it is part
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