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1 I | very guarded in what it said. In the mathematical section
2 I | was nothing at all!”~But, said one, “It was an optical
3 I | atmosphere. “It is possible,” said he, “that the object was
4 I | Chant du Départ.~“Good,” said the Yankee wags. “There
5 I | is not to answer.” Thus said the observatory at Boston,
6 I | Indian Ocean? What was to be said in this matter?~But then,
7 III | magnificent!~“And it is not dear,” said Uncle Prudent, as he handed
8 III | obtained.~“A communication!” said Uncle Prudent, after taking
9 IV | Robur looked the man he said he was. Of middle height
10 IV | again.~“Speak, stranger!” said Uncle Prudent, who had some
11 IV | same result.”~What Robur said had been said before by
12 IV | What Robur said had been said before by all the partisans
13 IV | towards your end.”~“Sir,” said the president, who in vain
14 IV | cool, “you forget what was said by our immortal Franklin
15 IV | of mechanics.”~“Indeed!” said Robur, shrugging his shoulders,
16 IV | seventy —”~“Seventy-one,” said the voice of a scoffer.~“
17 IV | hundred and ninety-three!” said the facetious individual.~“
18 IV | There is a difference,” said a voice.~“There is a possibility
19 IV | Which would never fly!” said secretary Phil Evans.~“Which
20 IV | flown, and which will fly,” said Robur, without being in
21 IV | helix; that we know!”~“So,” said Robur; “but Penaud has shown
22 IV | word.~“Mr. Aviator,” he said “you who talk so much of
23 IV | We beg to doubt it!” said Jem Chip.~“Gentlemen,” said
24 IV | said Jem Chip.~“Gentlemen,” said Robur, and his brows knit, “
25 IV | vegetarian.”~“Citizen Chip,” said Robur, “I knew that vegetarians
26 IV | accompanied it.~“Decidedly,” said he, “it was not Amerigo
27 V | for “heavier than air” had said things absolutely abhorrent.
28 V | rivalry.~“No, Sir, no,” said Phil Evans. “If I had had
29 V | compensation. Very little had been said about his gluttony, and
30 V | him anxiously. “Brrr!” he said, “There are those fellows
31 VI | bandage and gag.~“Thanks,” said he, in stifled voice.~“Phil
32 VI | dispute.~“And your servant?” said Phil Evans, pointing to
33 VI | set him free.”~“Not yet,” said Uncle Prudent. “He would
34 VI | little game.”~“Agreed,” said Evans. “We were wrong not
35 VI | wrong not to be right,” said Prudent.~Here a long-drawn
36 VI | scoundrel, that is enough!” said Uncle Prudent. “Now to work.”
37 VI | The wind, doubtless,” said Uncle Prudent.~“The wind!
38 VI | be assigned.~“Frycollin!” said Uncle Prudent.~“Master Uncle!
39 VI | have your bones picked!” said Evans.~And as Frycollin
40 VI | alarming.~“Uncle Prudent,” said Phil Evans.~“Well?”~“Do
41 VI | us brought before him,” said Phil Evans.~“I hope so,”
42 VI | Phil Evans.~“I hope so,” said Uncle Prudent. “And I shall
43 VI | stopped.~“That is strange!” said Phil Evans. “At a quarter
44 VI | where we are?”~“We might,” said Uncle Prudent. “Frycollin,
45 VI | buttress him up.”~“Right!” said Evans.~An instant afterwards
46 VI | limited.~“Break the glass,” said Prudent, “and perhaps you
47 VI | It is unbreakable glass!” said Evans.~It appeared as though
48 VI | of houses or monuments?” said Prudent, whose disappointment
49 VI | Honorable balloonists” he said, in a serious voice, “you
50 VII | as they crowd the earth!” said one of his most excited
51 VII | proved. But, as has been said, it is not necessary to
52 VII | element.~“And with her,” said Robur to his guests—guests
53 VIII | ironically.~“Further than that,” said Robur.~“And if this voyage
54 VIII | beneath them.~“Uncle Prudent,” said Evans, “unless I am mistaken
55 VIII | prolongation of the dawn.~“Yes,” said Phil Evans, “There is the
56 VIII | walked up to them and said: “Well, gentlemen, do you
57 VIII | break! If it was to break!” said the unfortunate Negro. Hence
58 VIII | can hardly believe it,” said Phil Evans.~“Don’t believe
59 VIII | Evans.~“Don’t believe it!” said Uncle Prudent. And going
60 VIII | horizon.~“Another town,” said Phil Evans.~“Do you recognize
61 VIII | Turner, accompanied him. He said only three words. These
62 VIII | In a word, as Robur had said, the “Albatross,” by using
63 VIII | hours before.~“Gentlemen,” said he, “you ask yourselves
64 VIII | side.~“Engineer Robur,” said Uncle Prudent, in vain endeavoring
65 VIII | To ask is not to answer,” said Phil Evans, “and I repeat,
66 VIII | that right?”~“How can you?” said Robur, ironically, “how
67 IX | can be no doubt of it,” said Phil Evans, “and that group
68 IX | faces.~“If that is Chicago,” said Uncle Prudent, “it is obvious
69 X | Phil Evans.~“I don’t know,” said Turner.~“I need not ask
70 X | being higher in the air,” said Phil Evans.~In fact the
71 X | capital, Salt Lake City,” said Uncle Prudent. And so it
72 X | Francisco before night,” said Phil Evans.~“And then?”
73 X | to him.~“Engineer Robur,” said Uncle Prudent, “we are now
74 X | to end.”~“I never joke,” said Robur.~He raised his hand.
75 X | We must try to escape.” said Phil Evans.~“Yes; cost what
76 XI | his head. It need not be said that while he was executing
77 XI | Yankee. “Eh, stand up!” he said, lifting the Negro by a
78 XI | waist.~“Master Tapage!” said the poor fellow, giving
79 XI | asked Tom Turner.~“Yes,” said Robur.~In the engine-room
80 XI | any importance to what he said, addressed them carelessly
81 XI | the sky.~“Uncle Prudent,” said Phil Evans, “it seems that
82 XI | through the fog.~“Gentlemen,” said he, “I have no reason for
83 XII | cabin.~It need hardly be said that to keep the aeronef
84 XII | The Himalayas, evidently,” said Phil Evans; “and probably
85 XII | through them.”~“Indeed!” said a voice.~The next day, the
86 XIII | That would be Venice,” said Phil Evans, “if we were
87 XIII | no children.~“Gentlemen,” said the engineer, “when people,
88 XIII | over the Caspian.”~“Good!” said the cook; “Then we can have
89 XIII | taken place.~“Phil Evans,” said Uncle Prudent, “I think
90 XIII | with regard to us.”~“None,” said Phil Evans. “He will only
91 XIII | must admit.”~“Perhaps so,” said Uncle Prudent; “but she
92 XIII | afterwards.”~“Just so,” said Uncle Prudent. “And we must
93 XIII | get out?”~“Listen to me,” said Uncle Prudent. “It may happen
94 XIII | slip down them —”~“Yes,” said Evans. “If the case is desperate
95 XIII | much more than you think,” said Uncle Prudent. “You saw
96 XIII | will not be quiet, then?” said Robur, almost out of patience.~“
97 XIII | has a right to complain,” said Phil Evans.~“Yes, and I
98 XIII | Robur.~“Engineer Robur!” said Uncle Prudent, who had just
99 XIII | at the end of a line,” he said.~Turner saw his meaning
100 XIII | scandalous! It is cowardly!” said Uncle Prudent, quite beside
101 XIII | himself with rage.~“Indeed!” said Robur.~“It is an abuse of
102 XIII | Yes, on you and yours!” said Uncle Prudent, whom his
103 XIII | Whenever you please!” said the engineer.~“And in every
104 XIII | That is enough now,” said Robur, in a threatening
105 XIII | danger.~“Let her down, then,” said Robur, “and get out of the
106 XIV | expense. “Eh! eh! my boy!” said he. “So you are not crying
107 XIV | long as we live!”~“Oh!” said the Negro, beginning his
108 XV | his perpetual trances and said, “these are as good as prawns.”~
109 XV | Gentlemen, Timbuktu!” he said, in the same tone as twelve
110 XV | twelve days before he had said, “Gentlemen, India!” Then
111 XV | them against you.”~“Sir,” said Phil Evans, in the same
112 XV | travel with me.”~“And so,” said Uncle Prudent, explosively, “
113 XV | overboard?”~“Did you do that?” said Robur, in a paroxysm of
114 XV | what he will dare not do,” said Uncle Prudent, “I Will do!
115 XV | face!~“Well aimed, Tom!” said Robur,~His comrades, armed
116 XV | what I am going to do!” said the engineer.~And the magazine
117 XV | Ah! They will have them!” said Tom Turner. And, rushing
118 XVI | round the world as Robur had said? Even if she were, the voyage
119 XVI | shock.~“Get the gun ready!” said Robur.~The order was given
120 XVI | shall not go! I refuse!” said the Negro, who took all
121 XVI | revenge on him.~“Phil,” said he one day, “is it quite
122 XVI | to make that sacrifice,” said Phil Evans, “the sooner
123 XVII | turning back.~“Turning back!” said Phil Evans. “But where to?”~“
124 XVII | can reprovision the ship,” said Uncle Prudent.~“That ought
125 XVII | came up to the engineer and said, “Do you see that black
126 XVII | object.~“It is a boat,” said he, “and there are some
127 XVII | thirst! Well, it shall not be said that the “Albatross” did
128 XVII | no answer. “Fire a gun!” said Robur.~The gun was fired
129 XVII | fear.~“Don’t be afraid,” said Robur in French, “we have
130 XVII | be of assistance to you,” said Robur.~The mate understood
131 XVIII| regions of the pole.~“Higher!” said Robur.~“Higher it is,” said
132 XVIII| said Robur.~“Higher it is,” said Tom Tumor.~An extreme ascensional
133 XVIII| of white.~It need not be said that they had approached
134 XIX | storm, which, as we have said, had considerably lightened
135 XIX | nearer than I supposed,” said Robur to Tom Turner.~“How
136 XIX | propellers into order,” said the mate. “We may have the
137 XIX | the voyage.”~“Mr. Robur,” said Tom “What is to be done
138 XIX | Island, but as the mate had said, the voyage would be a long
139 XIX | consequences.~“Phil Evans,” said Uncle Prudent, “you have
140 XIX | The sooner the better,” said Phil Evans.~It will be seen
141 XIX | Prudent’s plan. As he had said, he had stolen into the
142 XIX | When I got the cartridge,” said he to Phil Evans, “I took
143 XIX | morning.”~“Well planned!” said Phil Evans.~The colleagues,
144 XIX | sacrifice ours as well!” said Uncle Prudent. But it is
145 XIX | before midnight Uncle Prudent said, “It is time!” Under the
146 XIX | Albatross” is where she was,” said he in a low voice. “The
147 XIX | have to put out the match,” said he.~“No,” said Phil Evans, “
148 XIX | the match,” said he.~“No,” said Phil Evans, “we must escape!”~“
149 XIX | him. “The look-out!” he said.~A man was crouching near
150 XIX | around. “Nobody here!” he said.~“Nobody! Where can he be?”
151 XIX | Whether he has or not,” said Phil Evans, “we can’t wait
152 XIX | stopped him.~“Uncle Prudent,” said he. “Here we are safe from
153 XIX | on this island?”~“Never!” said Robur. And the reply was
154 XIX | shoulder.~“Ah! The brutes!” said Uncle Prudent. Knife in
155 XX | calm, “They have escaped,” said he. “Be it so! But they
156 XX | the one in the bow.~“Tom,” said the engineer, “Turn the
157 XX | it is not a heavy rain,” said Tom. “The clouds do not
158 XX | Chatham Islands.~“Tom,” said Robur, “It is about two
159 XX | natives?”~“We’ll fight,” said Robur. “We’ll fight then
160 XX | for orders. “My lads,” he said to them, “we cannot knock
161 XX | from the cabin. “Hallo!” said the mate, with a sniff.~“
162 XXI | from Phil Evans who had said to him twice, “Au revoir!
163 XXI | Philadelphia!~It need hardly be said that the club was put to
164 XXI | but none dreamt that the said Robur had anything to do
165 XXI | is an unseasonable joke,” said some. “It is all smoke,”
166 XXI | some. “It is all smoke,” said others. How could such a
167 XXI | at the desk. As they had said nothing of their adventures,
168 XXI | embarked for Auckland. They said nothing of their adventures,
169 XXI | ashore at San Francisco. They said nothing as to who they were
170 XXI | spoke.~“Worthy citizens,” said he, “The meeting is now
171 XXI | of the Weldon Institute, said, “Gentlemen, it now only
172 XXII | months, however, they had said nothing of their adventures;
173 XXIII| the aeronef. The engineer said that his ship had perished
174 XXIII| of the United States,” he said, “The president and secretary
175 XXIII| Conqueror, appear one day as he said? Yes! He will come to declare
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