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  1 Pre  |    intrepid adventurer was Michel Ardan. He landed in America, was
  2 Pre  |      These bold travelers, Michel Ardan, President Barbicane, and
  3 Pre  |         audacious humor of Michel Ardan. Besides this, it will prove
  4 I    |        ten o’clock struck, Michel Ardan, Barbicane, and Nicholl,
  5 I    |          companions,” said Michel Ardan, “let us make ourselves
  6 I    |           shape of a dome.~Michel Ardan examined everything, and
  7 I    |   advances an inch!”~While Michel Ardan was speaking, Barbicane
  8 I    |           Well!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, in a good-humored tone, “
  9 I    | twenty-six minutes left,” replied Ardan.~“Twenty-four only,” said
 10 I    |           my noble captain,” said Ardan; “twenty-four minutes in
 11 I    |          joker!” exclaimed Michel Ardan. “He hopes!—He is not sure!—
 12 I    |   Barbicane.~“Humph!” said Michel Ardan, “it is not easy; we are
 13 I    |             Then,” replied Michel Ardan, ready to suit the action
 14 I    |        may cheer up,” said Michel Ardan.~“Do you approve of my idea,
 15 I    |      departure.~During this time, Ardan, not being able to keep
 16 I    |           There are,” said Michel Ardan, “just as there are horses,
 17 I    |        Done, my captain!” replied Ardan, clasping Nicholl’s hand. “
 18 I    |  practical men!” exclaimed Michel Ardan; “I admire you the more
 19 I    |          minutes!” replied Michel Ardan; “and we are enclosed in
 20 I    |            Yes,” exclaimed Michel Ardan, more moved than he wished
 21 I    |       religious Barbicane.~Michel Ardan and Nicholl stretched themselves
 22 II   |    Barbicane, Nicholl, and Michel Ardan— did they still breathe?
 23 II   |          its knees. It was Michel Ardan. He felt himself all over,
 24 II   |            and then said:~“Michel Ardan is whole. How about the
 25 II   |           first let us light up.”~Ardan felt the tide of life return
 26 II   |           and in that case Michel Ardan could not have carried a
 27 II   |          When the burner was lit, Ardan leaned over the bodies of
 28 II   |      above, Barbicane underneath.~Ardan lifted the captain, propped
 29 II   |          presence of mind, seized Ardan’s hand and looked around
 30 II   |          in turn,” replied Michel Ardan. “I began with you, Nicholl,
 31 II   |         Barbicane.” Saying which, Ardan and Nicholl raised the president
 32 II   |       wounded man.~“Yes,” replied Ardan, “he breathes like a man
 33 II   |           we moving?”~Nicholl and Ardan looked at each other; they
 34 II   |          moving?” repeated Michel Ardan.~“Or quietly resting on
 35 II   |          of Mexico?” added Michel Ardan.~“What an idea!” exclaimed
 36 II   |         cold.~“What!” said Michel Ardan. “According to your showing,
 37 II   |            And then,” said Michel Ardan, “friend Nicholl has lost
 38 II   |        captain,” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “that hypothesis is not
 39 II   |           be loud?”~“No,” replied Ardan, much surprised; “certainly
 40 II   |         hurrah!” exclaimed Michel Ardan and Nicholl in one voice.~
 41 II   |        congratulate you,” replied Ardan.~“Here are the nine thousand
 42 II   |         in his pocketbook. Michel Ardan, taking off his hat, bowed
 43 II   |         the following remark from Ardan:~“And the moon; will she
 44 II   |             Ah!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “What is that? another
 45 II   |           Jove!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “we shall run into one
 46 II   |         to you,” exclaimed Michel Ardan, with a sigh of relief. “
 47 II   |       possible!” exclaimed Michel Ardan; “the earth then has two
 48 II   |         in space is.”~“How?” said Ardan.~“Because its distance is
 49 II   |        leagues,” exclaimed Michel Ardan. “That beats the express
 50 II   |         globe.~“Yes,” said Michel Ardan, “do not let us be ungrateful
 51 II   |          and the exterior.~Michel Ardan knelt by the glass. It was
 52 II   |           earth?” repeated Michel Ardan, looking with all his eyes
 53 II   |   thousand in an hour. But Michel Ardan, disdaining scientific reasonings,
 54 II   |          you found?” asked Michel Ardan, jumping from his bed.~“
 55 III  |           dogs!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, rising at once.~“They are
 56 III  |           much persuasion, Michel Ardan encouraging her with most
 57 III  |             By Jove!” said Michel Ardan, “I am really sorry that
 58 III  |     likenesses!” exclaimed Michel Ardan; “They are no more our likenesses
 59 III  |       means to say?” asked Michel Ardan.~“That it is half-past eight,”
 60 III  |  imperious laws of hunger. Michel Ardan, as a Frenchman, was declared
 61 III  |      lastly, to crown the repast, Ardan had brought out a fine bottle
 62 III  |        The sun!” exclaimed Michel Ardan.~“No doubt,” replied Barbicane; “
 63 III  |     should think so,” said Michel Ardan. “With a little earth spread
 64 III  |        captain,” exclaimed Michel Ardan, clasping his friend’s hand.~
 65 III  |           and shrubs which Michel Ardan hoped to transplant into
 66 III  |    unparalleled dexterity. Michel Ardan chatted first with Barbicane,
 67 IV   |           through the car. Michel Ardan, who was the first on his
 68 IV   |        calculation?” asked Michel Ardan.~“Perfectly. Nicholl and
 69 IV   |    advanced.”~“Then,” said Michel Ardan, in his sly tone, “mathematics
 70 IV   |           his head, showed Michel Ardan a page covered with algebraical
 71 IV   |        something!” replied Michel Ardan, who for his life could
 72 IV   |      Wonderful fellows!” muttered Ardan.~“Do you understand it at
 73 IV   |           I understand it?” cried Ardan; “my head is splitting with
 74 IV   |         watched him, while Michel Ardan nursed a growing headache
 75 IV   |         the matter?” asked Michel Ardan, much surprised.~“What is
 76 IV   |     projectile!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, jumping as if it was already
 77 V    |          his calculations. Michel Ardan was muttering:~“That is
 78 V    |           well then,” said Michel Ardan quietly; “as we are safe,
 79 V    |         not succeed?” said Michel Ardan; “why should we not arrive
 80 V    |          Americans,” added Michel Ardan, “the only people who could
 81 V    |      breakfast.~“Ah!” said Michel Ardan, “in our discussion we have
 82 V    |         It was quite dead. Michel Ardan looked at his friends with
 83 V    |           Who knows?” said Michel Ardan. “But, in admitting that
 84 VI   |    Nicholl always serious, Michel Ardan always enthusiastic. The
 85 VI   |          the sun,” replied Michel Ardan, “of which the inhabitants
 86 VI   |          new to note!~When Michel Ardan came down, he went to the
 87 VI   |        machine?” continued Michel Ardan. “Is it one of the bodies
 88 VII  |         Besides,” observed Michel Ardan, “a plain is easier to disembark
 89 VII  |        Face, indeed!” said Michel Ardan; “but I am sorry for the
 90 VII  |         his preoccupation, Michel Ardan did not forget to prepare
 91 VII  |        the repast, causing Michel Ardan to remark that the lunar
 92 VII  |          my friends,” said Michel Ardan, “that if one of us had
 93 VII  | projectile are forbidden.”~Michel Ardan allowed himself to be convinced
 94 VII  |          hip!” vociferated Michel Ardan.~Then the president and
 95 VIII |        wise then?” replied Michel Ardan.~After this philosophical
 96 VIII |             Ah!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “that is rather an amusing
 97 VIII |            and Nicholl and Michel Ardan shared Barbicane’s joy.~
 98 VIII |        the laws of weight. Michel Ardan, always enthusiastic, drew
 99 IX   |       sceptical,” retorted Michel Ardan. “We shall arrive, and that,
100 IX   |      Barbicane’s enemy and Michel Ardan’s adversary. To Captain
101 IX   |  audacious adventurer like Michel Ardan.~Conversation was started
102 IX   |      attraction or other.”~Michel Ardan’s indifference did not content
103 IX   |        path.”~“What?” said Michel Ardan.~“What do you mean?” exclaimed
104 X    |       very obliquity, gave Michel Ardan some hopes of striking the
105 X    |        tone which quenched Michel Ardan’s last hope.~The portion
106 XI   |         at least it was in Michel Ardan’s eyes. To him it was a
107 XI   |          the present time. Michel Ardan was right when he compared
108 XII  |       beautiful,” retorted Michel Ardan.~At this moment the projectile
109 XIII |           the cause of it.~Michel Ardan was watching near the president,
110 XIII |          events,” retorted Michel Ardan; “but what laborers those
111 XIII |        however, allow that Michel Ardan had “an idea,” and that,
112 XIII |          I like,” retorted Michel Ardan, “to explain what you savants
113 XIII |          Ah, indeed!” said Michel Ardan, a little out of countenance; “
114 XIII |          on the black sky.~Michel Ardan wanted to open one of the
115 XIV  |      Melted, disappeared!” Michel Ardan exclaimed, aghast.~Indeed,
116 XIV  |    radiant orb!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “which forces us to expend
117 XIV  |             Well,” replied Michel Ardan, “as the matter is settled,
118 XIV  |           Then,” continued Michel Ardan, “would not this be the
119 XIV  |           easier,” replied Michel Ardan, who was never at a loss. “
120 XIV  |          devil!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “it is cold enough to freeze
121 XV   |          this subject, and Michel Ardan, always ready with an explanation,
122 XV   |          words,” exclaimed Michel Ardan; “one knows directly what
123 XV   |       possible!” exclaimed Michel Ardan in a serious tone, as if
124 XV   |           cared little for Michel Ardan’s fun. They were deep in
125 XV   |          Nicholl,” replied Michel Ardan. “What do you think, Barbicane?”~“
126 XV   |         to that,” answered Michel Ardan. “Here is, however, a good
127 XV   |           But, then,” said Michel Ardan, “in order to maintain that
128 XV   |    Barbicane, Nicholl, and Michel Ardan, bathed in its white sheets,
129 XV   |            By Jove!” cried Michel Ardan, “we are hideous. What is
130 XVI  |        About five o’clock, Michel Ardan distributed, under the name
131 XVI  |       answered Nicholl and Michel Ardan.~“Yes, my friends, it is
132 XVI  |           the moon!” cried Michel Ardan.~“Only, I would have you
133 XVII |              Yes,” replied Michel Ardan, “imbibing as it were the
134 XVII |        ever existed there.~Michel Ardan, however, thought he recognized
135 XVII |          Asiatic Caucasus. Michel Ardan, with his accustomed ardor,
136 XVII |         the fact,” replied Michel Ardan.~Some minutes after passing
137 XVII |           not listening to Michel Ardan; he was contemplating these
138 XVII |       southern hemisphere. Michel Ardan used every metaphor that
139 XVII |             Ah!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, enthusiastic at the sight; “
140 XVIII|          by Jove!” replied Michel Ardan, “it seems easy enough to
141 XVIII|        stomach-ache.” said Michel Ardan.~“Besides,” added Barbicane, “
142 XVIII|         for or against it? Michel Ardan persuaded his two friends
143 XVIII|           well,” continued Michel Ardan, “the Scientific Commission
144 XVIII|         Astonish us?” said Michel Ardan.~“I firmly believe that
145 XVIII|        can say,” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “that the moon did not
146 XVIII|             And so,” asked Michel Ardan, “humanity has disappeared
147 XVIII|         savant,” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “for you make me boil with
148 XIX  |       become of us?” asked Michel Ardan.~“We don’t know,” replied
149 XIX  |          Very well,” cried Michel Ardan in a decided voice; “then
150 XIX  |    disturbed by a cry from Michel Ardan.~“By Jove!” he exclaimed, “
151 XIX  |           was a signal for Michel Ardan’s hips and hurrahs. And
152 XIX  |         motion!” exclaimed Michel Ardan.~“It is forty hours since
153 XIX  |           Certainly,” said Michel Ardan, finding himself alone, “
154 XIX  |         is ready,” replied Michel Ardan, directing a lighted match
155 XIX  |            said Barbicane.~Michel Ardan applied the lighted match
156 XIX  |         we falling?” asked Michel Ardan, at length.~“No,” said Nicholl, “
157 XIX  |       said he.~“Ah!” cried Michel Ardan, “on to the moon?”~“On to
158 XIX  |          devil!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, adding philosophically, “
159 XIX  |         fact,” interrupted Michel Ardan, “the whole of the other
160 XX   |         out his notes, and Michel Ardan embalming the lunar solitudes
161 XXI  |          that he could see Michel Ardan’s face looking through one
162 XXII |    Barbicane, Nicholl, and Michel Ardan was an international affair.
163 XXII |    Nicholl, Barbicane, and Michel Ardan, as if his unfortunate friends
164 XXII |        voice, the voice of Michel Ardan, exclaiming in an accent
165 XXII |           all!”~Barbicane, Michel Ardan, and Nicholl were playing
166 XXIII|    Barbicane, Nicholl, and Michel Ardan? No! and the ardent passion
167 XXIII|        longing.~Barbicane, Michel Ardan, Nicholl, and the delegates
168 XXIII|       Colonel Nicholl, and Michel Ardan. At the whistle of the driver,
169 XXIII|     director of movements, Michel Ardan.~And as it is part of the