Chapter
1 I | Frankville, and the German engineer Schultze, in the city of
2 IV | faculties. You see before you an engineer whose nerves are in no way
3 IV | nobody. Amid the smoke, the engineer vanished; and when it had
4 V | appearance of the mysterious engineer named Robur—Robur the Conqueror—
5 VII | cabins, including that of the engineer, the saloon, and above them
6 VII | plates? None can say. The engineer took good care—and not unreasonably—
7 VII | his mate Tom Turner, an engineer and two assistants, two
8 VIII | are silent,” continued the engineer. “Doubtless hunger makes
9 VIII | hesitation the route given by the engineer.~As for the rest of the
10 VIII | their posts. An assistant engineer, examining the machinery,
11 VIII | worlds was the aeronef of the engineer. The trumpet which blared
12 VIII | And if up to then the engineer had taken many precautions
13 VIII | a moment disconcert the engineer. He contented himself with
14 VIII | That was probably what the engineer was waiting for.~Robur made
15 VIII | Institute stood by his side.~“Engineer Robur,” said Uncle Prudent,
16 VIII | And for how long, citizen engineer,” asked Uncle Prudent, who
17 IX | the reefs of the sea. The engineer, it is true, had given the
18 IX | do so. That morning the engineer did not leave his cabin.
19 IX | thinking and waiting for the engineer, Uncle Prudent and Phil
20 X | colleagues walked up to him.~“Engineer Robur,” said Uncle Prudent, “
21 XI | himself in the service of the engineer? By what chain of accidents
22 XI | In the engine-room the engineer and his assistant were at
23 XI | out on the deck while the engineer was taking his observations
24 XI | In the presence of the engineer he was almost choked, as
25 XI | Peking?” interrupted the engineer.~“That is what I think,
26 XII | the two colleagues, as the engineer had told them, could see
27 XII | Turner was at the helm. The engineer kept an attentive watch
28 XIII | XIII~OVER THE CASPIAN~The Engineer had no intention of taking
29 XIII | children.~“Gentlemen,” said the engineer, “when people, have the
30 XIII | crackling of musketry. But the engineer never meddled with the affairs
31 XIII | getting ready for fishing, the engineer ordered them to shut up
32 XIII | my ears,” replied Robur.~“Engineer Robur!” said Uncle Prudent,
33 XIII | Whenever you please!” said the engineer.~“And in every possible
34 XIII | speed of the screws.~The engineer rushed to the central deck-house. “
35 XIV | Albatross belonging to Robur the engineer.””~““Please inform our friends
36 XV | somewhere.~And what was the engineer going to do with his prisoners?
37 XV | ancient Somai kings.~The engineer had no notion of allowing
38 XV | of taste,” answered the engineer. “Anyhow, I shall not try
39 XV | of the crew ran up. The engineer was seriously tempted to
40 XV | swarmed among the trees.~The engineer, leaning over the rail,
41 XV | am going to do!” said the engineer.~And the magazine rifles
42 XVI | this point? How had the engineer come to choose it? Was he
43 XVI | it seemed as though the engineer was in no hurry to cross
44 XVI | impossible to escape, for the engineer could not get through the
45 XVI | Seated in his cabin, the engineer was busy laying out his
46 XVI | the cook as to whither the engineer was bound, but what reliance
47 XVII | the Timbuktu country, the engineer had left off speaking to
48 XVII | during the 24th of July the engineer had frequent consultations
49 XVII | colleagues had partly guessed the engineer’s intentions. During the
50 XVII | Tom Turner came up to the engineer and said, “Do you see that
51 XVIII| Amid these dangers the engineer retained his imperturbable
52 XVIII| very awkward one. And the engineer began to consider if he
53 XIX | waiting for the sun the engineer began the repairs he reckoned
54 XIX | Evans was heard shouting, “Engineer Robur, will you give us
55 XX | again be in the power of the engineer.~Before the day was out!
56 XX | the bow.~“Tom,” said the engineer, “Turn the lights full on.”~“
57 XX | drifting was very slight. The engineer could thus hope that by
58 XX | Tom Turner came up to the engineer. It was a quarter past one. “
59 XX | for our “Albatross.””~The engineer went forward to the men,
60 XXI | stranger calling himself an engineer, and answering to the name
61 XXI | kidnapping “was” Robur the engineer, come expressly to Philadelphia
62 XXIII| prodigious coolness of the engineer, who reversed the gyratory
63 XXIII| remained of the aeronef. The engineer said that his ship had perished
64 XXIII| the Far West. There the engineer, keeping a profound incognito,
65 XXIII| amid profound silence, the engineer’s voice was heard.~“Citizens
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