Chapter
1 Pre | the readers of this little book, who, are gifted with the
2 II | grasping between his hands a book over which he bent, pondering
3 II | admiration.~“Here’s a remarkable book! What a wonderful book!”
4 II | remarkable book! What a wonderful book!” he was exclaiming.~These
5 II | bibliomania; but no old book had any value in his eyes
6 II | such a binding? Doesn’t the book open easily? Yes; it stops
7 II | you take it for a printed book, you ignorant fool? It is
8 II | myself before this wonderful book, a way of answering equally
9 II | within the folds of this old book, had for him an immeasurable
10 III | Then the Professor took the book and the parchment, and diligently
11 III | is of later date than the book, an undoubted proof of which
12 III | be found in Turlleson’s book, and which was only added
13 III | that some possessor of this book wrote these mysterious letters.
14 III | examined the blank pages of the book. On the front of the second,
15 VI | document.”~“What! not of the book, inside which we have discovered
16 XI | gunpowder.~[1] In M. Verne’s book a ‘manometer’ is the instrument
17 XVIII| down figures in my note book. “Nine times a hundred and
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