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1 I | into the oven.~“Well, now,” said I to myself, “if that most
2 I | temperament, I think I shall have said enough to disenchant any
3 II | proper like the Latin.”~“Ah!” said I, a little moved out of
4 II | They were invented, it is said, by Odin himself. Look there,
5 II | never known such a thing,” said Martha. “M. Liedenbrock
6 II | could have believed it?” I said, with my mouth full.~“Something
7 II | serious is going to happen,” said the servant, shaking her
8 III | Undoubtedly it is Runic,” said the Professor, bending his
9 III | cryptogram, or cipher,” he said, “in which letters are purposely
10 III | not by the same hand,” he said; “the cipher is of later
11 III | he added.~“The deuce!” said I to myself; “then it is
12 III | Let us examine carefully,” said he again, taking up the
13 III | realities of life.~“Come,” said he, “the very first idea
14 III | horizontally.”~“Indeed!” said I.~“Now we must see what
15 III | r n~e e y e a !~ “Good,” said the professor, without reading
16 III | vwmdrn eeyea!~ “Excellent!” said my uncle, taking the paper
17 III | remarks very clever.~“Now,” said my uncle, looking straight
18 III | in love with Gräuben?” he said, with the right look for
19 IV | and how about his dinner?” said the old servant.~“He won’
20 V | emotion.~“There, read that!” I said, presenting a sheet of paper
21 VI | I at the other.~“Axel,” said he very mildly; “you are
22 VI | many people bold enough?” said I.~“Certainly; who would
23 VI | what we shall see.”~“Ah!” said I, rather put out. “But
24 VI | My uncle opened it and said:~“Here is one of the best
25 VI | see this volcanic island,” said the Professor; “observe
26 VI | in Iceland.”~“Very good,” said I; “but what of Sneffels?”~
27 VI | But that is impossible,” I said shrugging my shoulders,
28 VI | supposition.~“Impossible?” said the Professor severely; “
29 VI | serious.~“Well, then,” I said, “I am forced to admit that
30 VI | Now for your reason?” said my uncle ironically.~“All
31 VI | there was nothing to be said.~“Well, I will tell you
32 VI | What is that reason?” I said, rather astonished.~“Because
33 VI | the centre?”~“Yes, yes,” said I; “that is possible, too.”~“
34 VII | What is the matter?” she said, holding out her hand.~“
35 VII | without speaking.~At last she said, “Axel!”~“My dear Gräuben.”~“
36 VII | Ah! my dear Axel,” she said. “I see you are better.
37 VII | my own eyes.~“Axel,” she said, “I have had a long talk
38 VII | Well, I don’t doubt,” I said, not to vex him; “but, I
39 VII | the old servant.~“No,” I said. “Lower down than that.”~
40 VII | Gräuben was there; so I said nothing, and could eat nothing.~
41 VIII | That’s a lunatic asylum,” said one of or travelling companions.~
42 VIII | at seven in the morning,” said Captain Bjarne, after having
43 VIII | Let us get to the top,” said my uncle.~“I shall be dizzy,”
44 VIII | uncle.~“I shall be dizzy,” I said.~“The more reason why we
45 VIII | shall I be able to do it,” I said.~“Don’t be a coward; come
46 VIII | a coward; come up, sir”; said my uncle with the coldest
47 VIII | To-morrow we will do it again,” said the Professor.~And it was
48 IX | terrace.~“Sublime madman!” I said, “no doubt you would approve
49 IX | Rejkiavik.~“Well, Axel,” said my uncle, “we are getting
50 IX | is over.”~“The worst!” I said, astonished.~“To be sure,
51 X | And in the meantime,” said my uncle rather spitefully, “
52 X | touched M. Fridrikssen.~“Now,” said he, “will you be kind enough
53 X | left.”~“Do you think so?” said my uncle, pretending to
54 X | That is Snæfell.”~“Ah!” said my uncle, as coolly as he
55 X | never been heard of.~“Yes,” said he, “your words decide me.
56 X | crater!”~“I am very sorry,” said M. Fridrikssen, “that my
57 XI | twenty-two miles, to be done, said my uncle, in two days.~But
58 XI | with one word:~“Efter,“ said he.~“After,” said the Professor
59 XI | Efter,“ said he.~“After,” said the Professor for my edification.~
60 XI | and equipped like this,” said my uncle, “there is no telling
61 XI | single word of all that was said at this semi-official dinner;
62 XII | enterprise.~“Besides,” I said to myself, “where’s the
63 XII | yes or no, except when he said “Gardär.”~I consulted the
64 XII | intelligent as they are said to be, I thought, they won’
65 XII | a foot soldier.~“Färja,“ said the guide, touching his
66 XII | us go on.”~“Tidvatten,“ said the guide.~“What is he saying?”~“
67 XII | saying?”~“He says tide,” said my uncle, translating the
68 XII | for the tide.”~“Förbida,“ said my uncle.~“Ja,“ replied
69 XIII | previous day.~“Sællvertu,“ said Hans.~Then calmly, automatically,
70 XIII | Sællvertu.”~“Spetelsk,“ said he.~“A leper!” my uncle
71 XIV | leathern apron on.~“Sællvertu,“ said the hunter.~“God dag,“ said
72 XIV | said the hunter.~“God dag,“ said the blacksmith in good Danish.~“
73 XIV | good Danish.~“Kyrkoherde,“ said Hans, turning round to my
74 XIV | You don’t doubt my word?” said my uncle. “Well, follow
75 XIV | new-born hopes when my uncle said:~“You see all these volumes
76 XV | seems we must go higher,” said my uncle.~Then he asked
77 XV | the guide.~“Ja Mistour,“ said one of the Icelanders in
78 XV | asked uneasily.~“Look!” said my uncle.~I looked down
79 XVI | of waters.~“Greenland!” said he.~“Greenland?” I cried.~“
80 XVII | again ad infinitum.~“Now,” said my uncle, after having completed
81 XVII | under that head.~“Hans,” said he, “will take charge of
82 XVII | delicate instruments.”~“But,” said I, “the clothes, and that
83 XVII | heavier form of Hans, he said in his tranquil voice:~“
84 XVII | for in one of our halts he said to me:~“The farther I go
85 XVII | there,” he cried.~“Where?” said I, stepping near to him.~“
86 XVIII | twenty-nine inches.~“You see,” said the Professor, “we have
87 XVIII | level of the sea.~“But,” I said, “is there not reason to
88 XVIII | in our possession.~“Now,” said my uncle, “let us breakfast;
89 XVIII | march!”~He had better have said slide, for we did nothing
90 XVIII | this want of springs?” he said.~“More than that, I am anxious
91 XVIII | According to your system,” said my uncle. “But what does
92 XVIII | boy.”~“Nothing is easier,” said I, putting down figures
93 XIX | of a mile down.~My uncle said it was time to go to sleep.
94 XIX | you please.”~“Going up!” said my uncle, with a shrug.~“
95 XIX | saying?” he asked.~“See,” I said, pointing to the varied
96 XIX | then, joining my uncle, I said:~“Look at this!”~“Very well,”
97 XIX | Look at this!”~“Very well,” said he quietly, “it is the shell
98 XX | fork in the road.” “Yes,” said I, “if we have any strength
99 XXI | in his arms.~“Poor boy!” said he, in genuine tones of
100 XXI | it on my lips.~“Drink!” said he.~Had I heard him? Was
101 XXI | understand him.~“Drink!” he said again.~And raising his flask
102 XXI | clasped hands.~“Yes,” he said, “a draught of water; but
103 XXI | you.”~“My dear uncle,” I said, whilst hot tears trickled
104 XXI | Thank you, thank you,” I said. Although my thirst was
105 XXI | speak. .~“Let us see,” I said, “we have now but one thing
106 XXI | crater again!”~“Return!” said my uncle, as if he was rather
107 XXI | calmly pointing to my uncle said:~“Master.”~“Master!” I shouted; “
108 XXI | The want of water,” he said, “is the only obstacle in
109 XXI | hazardous a proposal.~“Well,” I said, “do as you will, and God
110 XXIII | Hans was not mistaken,” he said. “What you hear is the rushing
111 XXIII | better for the digestion,” said my uncle. “It is highly
112 XXIII | corner to rest.~“Now,” I said, “we must not lose this
113 XXIII | fruitless.~“It is quite plain,” said I, “that the higher body
114 XXIV | CHAPTER XXIV.~WELL SAID, OLD MOLE! CANST THOU WORK
115 XXIV | I am not mistaken,” I said, and examining the map,
116 XXIV | delight.~“Can it be?” I said. “Is the ocean spread above
117 XXV | his daily notes.~“First,” said he, “I will make a calculation
118 XXV | the pain.”~“Exactly so,” I said, determined not to say a
119 XXVI | through me.~“Calmly!” I said aloud to myself, “I am sure
120 XXVII | Fridrikssen, Snæfell. I said to myself that if, in such
121 XXVIII | understanding what the voices said. Yet it was language, I
122 XXVIII | from my lethargy.~“No,” I said, “no; it is not through
123 XXVIII | Forty seconds,” said my uncle. “Forty seconds
124 XXIX | feebly.~“My dear nephew,” said my uncle, pressing me to
125 XXIX | countenance.~“God dag,“ said he.~“How do you do, Hans?
126 XXIX | better.”~“Yes, I am indeed,” said I, sitting up on my couch.~“
127 XXX | shall see it no more,” I said, with a sigh.~“What matters,”
128 XXX | a forest of mushrooms,” said he.~And he was right. Imagine
129 XXX | jaw of a mastodon,” [1] I said. “These are the molar teeth
130 XXXI | coffee so delicious.~“Now,” said my uncle, “now is the time
131 XXXI | This is wonderful,” I said.~“No; it is quite natural.”~“
132 XXXI | the earth.”~“No doubt,” said my uncle; “and inhabited
133 XXXI | inhabited too.”~“To be sure,” said I; “and why should not these
134 XXXI | Would you then conclude,” I said, “that the magnetic pole
135 XXXI | below the surface.”~“So,” I said, examining the map, “the
136 XXXI | well-made raft.”~“Why,” I said, “a raft would be just as
137 XXXI | waves.~“Are you convinced?” said my uncle.~“I am quite convinced,
138 XXXII | a better to propose,” I said: “Grauben. Let it be called
139 XXXII | progress. At this rate, he said, we shall make thirty leagues
140 XXXIII | seem anxious, my uncle,” I said, seeing him continually
141 XXXIII | at the hunter.~“Tänder,“ said he.~I could not understand
142 XXXIII | animals?”~“He is right,” said my uncle, whose glass has
143 XXXIV | column of water?”~“Geyser,“ said Hans.~“No doubt it is a
144 XXXIV | colours.~“Let us land,” said the Professor.~“But we must
145 XXXIV | Oh, nothing at all,” I said, seeing that I was going
146 XXXVI | slept?”~“Oh, very well,” I said. “I am only a little knocked
147 XXXVI | him to astonish me.~“Now,” said he, “we will replenish our
148 XXXVI | let us go to breakfast,” said he.~I followed him to a
149 XXXVI | now.~“That seems to me,” I said, “rather difficult to make
150 XXXVI | Yes, it is difficult,” he said, “to calculate exactly;
151 XXXVI | parts of the globe.”~“Well,” said I, “let it be Axel Island.
152 XXXVII | Just listen to me,” I said firmly. “Ambition must have
153 XXXVII | waving folds.~The Professor said a few words to the guide,
154 XXXVII | sail until to-morrow,” he said.~I made a movement intended
155 XXXVII | must neglect nothing,” he said; “and since my fate has
156 XXXVII | upon fresh discoveries,” I said.~And leaving Hans to his
157 XXXVIII| dexterous showman.~“You see,” he said, “that it is not six feet
158 XXXIX | eager interest.~“Come on!” said he, seizing my arm. “Forward!
159 XXXIX | fly!~“Come, do come!” I said to my uncle, who for once
160 XXXIX | monotonous scene.~“Evidently,” said I, “we have not landed again
161 XXXIX | just picked up.~“Come,” said he, “had you this weapon
162 XXXIX | Not that I am aware,” said the Professor. “I have never
163 XXXIX | taken me a long way, and said coolly:~“Be calm, Axel,
164 XL | first return to Hans,” he said, “and bring the raft to
165 XL | the rocks on the shore.~I said: “Uncle, do you know it
166 XL | lukewarm.~“At least,” I said, “don’t let us lose a minute.”~“
167 XL | Saknussemm?” I cried.~“Yes,” said my uncle, “was he stopped
168 XL | linen.~“This will do it,” I said.~“It will,” replied my uncle.~
169 XL | into activity.~“To-morrow,” said the Professor.~I had to
170 XLI | fire to the fuse. “Now go,” said my uncle, “and return immediately
171 XLI | Five minutes more!” he said. “Four! Three!”~My pulse
172 XLII | in.~“Just as I thought,” said the Professor “We are in
173 XLII | not understand.~“Well,” said I, “do you think we have
174 XLII | liquid? I feared this, and said to the Professor:~“If we
175 XLII | new had happened.~“Come,” said he, “we must determine upon
176 XLII | something.”~“Determine on what?” said I.~“Yes, we must recruit
177 XLII | slightly.~“Forträfflig,“ said Hans, drinking in his turn.~“
178 XLIII | his head.~“Do you think,” said he, “an earthquake is coming?”~“
179 XLIII | volcano?”~“I believe we are,” said the indomitable Professor
180 XLIII | stopped?” I cried.~“Ah!” said my uncle between his clenched
181 XLIII | stopped again.~“Very good,” said my uncle; “in ten minutes
182 XLIV | Hans must be mistaken,” I said, raising myself up.~This
183 XLIV | the first to speak, and said:~“Well, this is not much
184 XLIV | mountain this may be,” he said at last, “it is very hot
185 XLIV | antipodes.”~“But the compass?” said my uncle.~“Ay, the compass!”
186 XLIV | uncle.~“Ay, the compass!” I said, greatly puzzled. “According
187 XLIV | as well as he could, and said to him in good German:~“
188 XLIV | no answer.~“Very well,” said my uncle. “I infer that
189 XLIV | Now let us try Italian,” said my uncle; and he said:~“
190 XLIV | said my uncle; and he said:~“Dove noi siamo?”~“Yes,
191 XLV | Now you are a hero, Axel,” said to me my blushing fiancée,
192 XLV | name in English.~“Farval,“ said he one day; and with that
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