Chapter
1 I | CHAPTER I.~THE PROFESSOR AND HIS FAMILY~On the 24th
2 I | of May, 1863, my uncle, Professor Liedenbrock, rushed into
3 I | irascible a person as the Professor? With this persuasion I
4 I | had time to move when the Professor was again shouting after
5 I | original character.~He was professor at the Johannæum, and was
6 I | lectures at the Johannæum, the Professor often came to a complete
7 I | assume that the learned Professor’s celebrity dawned in his
8 I | tolerably well off for a German professor. The house was his own,
9 II | admiring exclamations of the Professor.~“See,” he went on, both
10 II | What!” sharply replied the Professor, “a translation! What should
11 II | the means of drawing on Professor Liedenbrock and his nephew
12 II | Runic glyphs occur here]~The Professor mused a few moments over
13 II | muttered between his teeth.~And Professor Liedenbrock must have known,
14 II | waited a few minutes. No Professor came. Never within my remembrance
15 III | RUNIC WRITING EXERCISES THE PROFESSOR~“Undoubtedly it is Runic,”
16 III | Undoubtedly it is Runic,” said the Professor, bending his brows; “but
17 III | not to say so.~Then the Professor took the book and the parchment,
18 III | so; it must be so!”~The Professor’s imagination took fire
19 III | pretty Virlandaise and the professor’s nephew loved each other
20 III | e a !~ “Good,” said the professor, without reading them, “
21 III | Gräuben!”~ “Hallo!” cried the Professor.~Yes, indeed, without knowing
22 III | supreme experiment arrived the Professor’s eyes flashed right through
23 III | therefore waited for the Professor with great pomp to unfold
24 IV | escape from the house? The Professor might return at any moment.
25 V | document upon the table.~Professor Liedenbrock seemed to be
26 V | discover it, would be to kill Professor Liedenbrock! Let him find
27 V | seem too abrupt, when the Professor jumped up, clapped on his
28 V | key of the document.”~The Professor stared at me over his spectacles;
29 V | finished my sentence when the Professor broke out into a cry, nay,
30 V | replied the indefatigable Professor, entering the dining-room.~
31 VI | could have any weight with Professor Liedenbrock. Now there were
32 VI | an unguarded moment. The Professor bent his shaggy brows, and
33 VI | volcanic island,” said the Professor; “observe that all the volcanoes
34 VI | Impossible?” said the Professor severely; “and why, pray?”~“
35 VI | that, do they?” replied the Professor in the tone of a meek disciple. “
36 VI | is my decision,” replied Professor Liedenbrock, putting on
37 VI | beginning to be shaken by the Professor’s arguments, besides which
38 VII | under the iron rule of the Professor Liedenbrock? Was I to believe
39 VII | not taken into account the Professor’s impatience. I found him
40 VII | I drew Gräuben into the Professor’s study.~“Uncle, is it true
41 VII | felt myself grasped by the Professor’s sinewy hand, dragged along,
42 VIII | reflections.~As for the Professor’s reflections, they went
43 VIII | consul at Hamburg and the Professor’s friend. With this we possessed
44 VIII | to look after it. Yet the Professor watched every article with
45 VIII | big enough to contain all Professor Liedenbrock’s madness!~At
46 VIII | German and English; but the Professor, as a polyglot, questioned
47 VIII | Danish consul at Hamburg, Professor Thomsen.~My uncle had a
48 VIII | a good friend, gave the Professor Liedenbrock a cordial greeting,
49 VIII | spire had attracted the Professor’s attention. Starting from
50 VIII | will do it again,” said the Professor.~And it was so; for five
51 IX | Rejkiavik, in Faxa Bay.~The Professor at last emerged from his
52 IX | Baron Trampe himself. The Professor was soon aware of the presence
53 IX | entirely at the service of Professor Liedenbrock.~My uncle was
54 IX | him. But M. Fridrikssen, professor of natural sciences at the
55 X | SAVANTS~Dinner was ready. Professor Liedenbrock devoured his
56 X | befits philosophers; but Professor Liedenbrock was excessively
57 X | replied the Rejkiavik professor. “You mean that learned
58 X | the great scandal of the professor of natural history.~“What!”
59 X | German to the Icelandic Professor. At this dinner my uncle
60 XI | words which fell from the Professor. He stood with arms crossed,
61 XI | said he.~“After,” said the Professor for my edification.~The
62 XI | furnish the adventurous professor with this more familiar
63 XI | made. Our host gave the Professor very great pleasure by presenting
64 XII | started from under the Professor’s legs, and left him standing
65 XIII | base of the volcano. The Professor hardly took his eyes off
66 XIV | The rector,” repeated the Professor. “It seems, Axel, that this
67 XIV | The place to resist the Professor would have been Hamburg,
68 XIV | the priest’s house, the Professor took a straight road, which,
69 XIV | this clearly,” added the Professor. “At the approach of an
70 XV | As a true nephew of the Professor Liedenbrock, and in spite
71 XV | violently. I was exhausted. The Professor saw that my limbs were refusing
72 XVI | arrival of Hans and the Professor, who joined me on the summit.~
73 XVI | down either of them. But Professor Liedenbrock had hastily
74 XVI | stirred.~“Look!” cried the Professor.~And, sharing his astonishment,
75 XVI | attempt a picture of the Professor’s angry impatience. The
76 XVI | sends unmixed grief, and for Professor Liedenbrock there was a
77 XVI | there it is!” shouted the Professor.~“Now for the centre of
78 XVII | words without a shudder.~The Professor fastened his package of
79 XVII | was all one to me. But the Professor, no doubt, was pursuing
80 XVIII | inches.~“You see,” said the Professor, “we have now only the pressure
81 XVIII | Now, Axel,” cried the Professor with enthusiasm, “now we
82 XVIII | easy to ascertain that; the Professor measured accurately the
83 XVIII | figures are of no use.”~The Professor’s calculations were quite
84 XIX | communicating these fears to Professor Liedenbrock. He would never
85 XIX | Well, Axel?” demanded the Professor impatiently.~“Well, I cannot
86 XIX | level soil of Iceland.”~The Professor nodded slowly and uneasily
87 XIX | examine.”~I obliged the Professor to move his lamp over the
88 XIX | fucoids and lycopodites.~Professor Liedenbrock could not be
89 XX | anything to reassure the Professor; for there was no change
90 XX | fills the highest place. But Professor Liedenbrock seemed not to
91 XX | I asked.~“I know,” the Professor pronounced decidedly, “I
92 XX | Notwithstanding the theories of Professor Liedenbrock, a violent heat
93 XXI | XXI.~COMPASSION FUSES THE PROFESSOR’S HEART~Next day we started
94 XXI | accustomed to see the excitable Professor in a softened mood. I grasped
95 XXI | then, Axel,” replied the Professor ironically, “you have found
96 XXI | over-ruled the obstinate Professor; if it were needed, we might
97 XXI | Hear me to the end,” the Professor went on with a firm voice. “
98 XXII | a hundred yards when the Professor, moving his lantern along
99 XXIII | with me now,” cried the Professor, laughing.~“I agree with
100 XXIV | was all very well for the Professor to call this so simple,
101 XXV | pleasure.~After breakfast the Professor gave a few hours to the
102 XXV | east.”~“Well,” answered the Professor, after a rapid calculation, “
103 XXV | I could see the awful Professor bursting through my uncle’
104 XXV | which would have brought the Professor on the scene when he was
105 XXV | adherent of the opinions of Professor Liedenbrock, and I envied
106 XXIX | wanted to bring out the Professor’s tenderer qualities.~At
107 XXIX | unanswerable questions when the Professor entered.~“Good morning,
108 XXXI | us.”~“Yes,” answered the Professor laughing. “It is rather
109 XXXII | on board; and at six the Professor gave the signal to embark.
110 XXXII | departure from Port Gräuben, Professor Liedenbrock had entrusted
111 XXXII | a small sturgeon.”~The Professor eyes the creature attentively,
112 XXXII | everything that surrounds me. The Professor, the guide, the raft — are
113 XXXII | Is he mad?” cried the Professor.~“What is it all about?”
114 XXXIII | injured man.~I remark that Professor Liedenbrock has a tendency
115 XXXIII | then remembered that the Professor, before starting, had estimated
116 XXXIII | as we ought to be,” the Professor declares. “We are losing
117 XXXIII | answer, and I leave the Professor to bite his lips with impatience.
118 XXXIII | submarine caverns. I suppose Professor Liedenbrock was of my opinion
119 XXXIII | whale, a whale!” cried the Professor. “I can see its great fins.
120 XXXIV | the distance,” says the Professor, “there is a rock or islet,
121 XXXIV | getting on may please the Professor, because it is vertical;
122 XXXIV | open mutiny against the Professor, who vouchsafes no answer.~
123 XXXIV | nothing else,” shouted the Professor, with a loud laugh.~“But
124 XXXIV | Let us land,” said the Professor.~“But we must carefully
125 XXXIV | not at all in harmony with Professor Liedenbrock’s theories.
126 XXXIV | shall see.” So says the Professor, who, having named this
127 XXXV | weather coming on.”~The Professor made no answer. His temper
128 XXXVI | exhilarating voice of the Professor fell upon my ears as I awoke;
129 XXXVI | storm.~“Well,” cried the Professor, “as we have no guns we
130 XXXVI | Four months!” cried the Professor. “We have time to go and
131 XXXVI | went in.”~I stared at the Professor with a good deal of mistrust.
132 XXXVI | and see what it says.”~The Professor moved towards the rock upon
133 XXXVII | succession shook the breast of Professor Liedenbrock? First stupefaction,
134 XXXVII | interruption; not that the Professor was paying any respectful
135 XXXVII | in its waving folds.~The Professor said a few words to the
136 XXXVII | were not really where the Professor supposed we were. In fact
137 XXXVII | waters of former ages. The Professor was carefully examining
138 XXXVII | enthusiast was my uncle, Professor Liedenbrock.~But more was
139 XXXVIII| CHAPTER XXXVIII.~THE PROFESSOR IN HIS CHAIR AGAIN~To understand
140 XXXVIII| some moments’ silence the Professor was himself again. Otto
141 XXXVIII| Gigantosteologie,” at last the Professor burst out, between two words
142 XXXVIII| wonderful story.”~Here the Professor laid hold of the fossil
143 XXXVIII| smiling; but the learned Professor was frequently disturbed
144 XXXVIII| the lowest savages.~The Professor ceased to speak, and the
145 XXXIX | hills of bones. The rash Professor, careless of losing his
146 XXXIX | that I am aware,” said the Professor. “I have never had this
147 XXXIX | hundred years old.”~The Professor was getting excited according
148 XL | reflections were occupying me, Professor Liedenbrock had launched
149 XL | the gloomy tunnel when the Professor stopped me; he, the man
150 XL | sentence! The soul of the Professor had passed into me. The
151 XL | activity.~“To-morrow,” said the Professor.~I had to be resigned and
152 XLI | the end of the match. The Professor stood, chronometer in hand. “
153 XLI | intense excitement. The Professor was watching the hand of
154 XLII | torch! The torch!” cried the Professor.~Not without difficulty
155 XLII | as I thought,” said the Professor “We are in a tunnel not
156 XLII | crushed.”~“Axel,” replied the Professor with perfect coolness, “
157 XLII | say?”~“Yes, at once.”~The Professor added a few words in Danish,
158 XLII | feared this, and said to the Professor:~“If we are neither drowned,
159 XLII | certainly not,” was the Professor’s firm reply.~“What! do
160 XLII | nourishment for each. The Professor ate his greedily, with a
161 XLII | remaining cool, and assuredly Professor Liedenbrock possessed this
162 XLII | and then —”~What did the Professor mean? Could he be trying
163 XLII | I cried.~This time the Professor’s only answer was an angry
164 XLIII | are,” said the indomitable Professor with an air of perfect self-possession; “
165 XLIII | us!”~“Yes,” replied the Professor, eyeing me over his spectacles, “
166 XLIII | been suffocated.~But the Professor gave up his idea of abandoning
167 XLIII | crater.”~As he spoke, the Professor continued to consult his
168 XLIV | Not Iceland?” cried the Professor.~“Hans must be mistaken,”
169 XLIV | give up this notion.~The Professor was the first to speak,
170 XLIV | with thirst.”~Decidedly the Professor was not given to contemplation.
171 XLIV | the child dumb?” cried the Professor, who, proud of his knowledge
172 XLIV | again, the terrible German professor of mineralogy.~One hour
173 XLV | produced by the return of Professor Liedenbrock? Thanks to Martha’
174 XLV | tattling, the news that the Professor had gone to discover a way
175 XLV | audience was given to the Professor at the Johannæum, at which
176 XLV | Aha! aha!” shouted the Professor with a loud laugh. “So it
177 XLV | From that day forth the Professor was the most glorious of
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