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1 I | minutes thirteen seconds,” replied the methodical Nicholl.~“
2 I | twenty-six minutes left,” replied Ardan.~“Twenty-four only,”
3 I | us?”~“I hope so, Michel,” replied Barbicane gently, “but I
4 I | said Nicholl.~“Then,” replied Michel Ardan, ready to suit
5 I | asked Barbicane.~“Entirely,” replied the captain. “We’ve still
6 I | Nicholl.~“Done, my captain!” replied Ardan, clasping Nicholl’
7 I | thousand dollars.”~“Yes,” replied Nicholl. “Thirty-seven minutes
8 I | I have the dollars,” replied Nicholl, slapping the pocket
9 I | the bank in Baltimore,” replied Barbicane simply; “and if
10 I | Yes, five little minutes!” replied Michel Ardan; “and we are
11 II | said he.~“Each in turn,” replied Michel Ardan. “I began with
12 II | the wounded man.~“Yes,” replied Ardan, “he breathes like
13 II | surrounds the globe.”~“Just so,” replied Nicholl; “but in what proportion
14 II | has received?”~“Granted,” replied Nicholl; “but one question.”~“
15 II | ought to be loud?”~“No,” replied Ardan, much surprised; “
16 II | Nicholl.~“I congratulate you,” replied Ardan.~“Here are the nine
17 II | nearly struck us?”~“I know,” replied Barbicane.~“Oh, indeed!
18 II | satellite?” asked Nicholl.~“No,” replied Barbicane; “but if, like
19 II | earth.”~“I should think so,” replied Nicholl, consulting his
20 III | said Nicholl.~“By Jove!” replied Michel, “we have forgotten
21 III | where is Adam?”~“Adam?” replied Michel; “Adam cannot be
22 III | yet rested.~“I dare say,” replied Barbicane; “but if the earth
23 III | You are right, Barbicane,” replied Captain Nicholl; “and, besides,
24 III | about eighty-eight hours,” replied the captain.~“Which means
25 III | it is half-past eight,” replied Nicholl.~“Very well,” retorted
26 III | Michel Ardan.~“No doubt,” replied Barbicane; “I expected it.”~“
27 III | yourself, my worthy friend,” replied Barbicane; “the projectile
28 IV | moon.”~“You mean to say,” replied Barbicane, “to attain that
29 IV | Nothing can be easier,” replied Barbicane.~“And you knew
30 IV | Very well, old Barbicane,” replied Michel; “they might have
31 IV | word?”~“Certainly not,” replied Barbicane.~“Well, perhaps
32 IV | converse of the differential,” replied Barbicane seriously.~“Much
33 IV | means?”~“Of course, Michel,” replied the captain. “All these
34 IV | projectile?”~“Incontestably,” replied Nicholl; “and even by this
35 IV | rules.”~“That is something!” replied Michel Ardan, who for his
36 IV | First effects of algebra,” replied Barbicane; “and now, to
37 IV | their value.”~“Finish me!” replied Michel.~Barbicane took the
38 IV | minutes’ silence.~“Well!” replied Nicholl; every calculation
39 V | up.”~“That is evident,” replied Nicholl; “and we must conclude
40 V | contingency, my friends,” replied Michel; “you have only to
41 V | such trifles?”~“Certainly,” replied Michel, “and not only to
42 V | projectile.”~“My friend,” replied Barbicane, “the sea covers
43 V | little.”~“The fact is,” replied Nicholl, “that cows, bulls,
44 V | hours.”~“No! certainly not,” replied Nicholl; “but our scuttles
45 V | Which is not to be feared,” replied Nicholl.~“Who knows?” said
46 V | That might happen, indeed,” replied Barbicane, “but the consequences
47 V | estimated?”~“Formerly,” replied Barbicane, “it was greatly
48 V | nothing!”~“It is very much,” replied Barbicane; “the temperature
49 V | whatever?”~“By the ether only,” replied Barbicane.~“And pray what
50 VI | with it.”~“More than that,” replied Barbicane; “we should have
51 VI | And you would have seen,” replied Barbicane. “It is known
52 VI | transformation.”~“Yes, I understand,” replied Michel, “perfectly. For
53 VI | According to calculation,” replied Barbicane, “the fall would
54 VI | additional heat for the sun,” replied Michel Ardan, “of which
55 VI | exclaimed Michel.~“No,” replied Barbicane, “because the
56 VI | Without considering,” replied Nicholl, “that the day lasts
57 VI | Yes, eclipses of the sun,” replied Barbicane, “when the centers
58 VI | of algebra!”~“Very well, replied Barbicane; “in popular language
59 VI | That reason satisfies me,” replied Michel. “Besides we shall
60 VI | There’s an idea!”~“Yes,” replied Michel, with an amiable
61 VI | level with it.”~“Nicholl,” replied Barbicane, after a moment’
62 VII | projectile.”~“Well, old Michel,” replied Barbicane, “you would not
63 VII | wishing to draw back,” replied Nicholl; “but I repeat my
64 VII | without a gun!”~“The gun,” replied Barbicane, “can be manufactured.
65 VII | make to your proposition,” replied Barbicane, “which is that,
66 VII | us.”~“Yes, he’ll come,” replied Barbicane; “he is a worthy
67 VII | are going to do there?” replied Barbicane, stamping with
68 VII | loud tone.~“Well, I know,” replied Michel.~“Speak, then,” cried
69 VII | elected by the nation,” replied Barbicane.~“Very well, a
70 VIII | you unmitigated rascal,” replied Barbicane, “you do not want
71 VIII | we were not wise then?” replied Michel Ardan.~After this
72 VIII | Assumption’ cannot last,” replied Barbicane. “If the projectile
73 VIII | will be upon the roof,” replied Michel.~“No,” said Barbicane, “
74 VIII | Calm yourself, Michel,” replied Nicholl; “no upset is to
75 VIII | more burdens!”~“Well said,” replied Barbicane; “but if nothing
76 VIII | exclaimed Michel.~“Yes,” replied Nicholl; “for if the height
77 VIII | said Nicholl.~“Just so,” replied Barbicane.~“And it would
78 VIII | defend oneself.”~“Good,” replied Nicholl; “your projectiles
79 VIII | remark.”~“It is certain,” replied Barbicane; “the attraction
80 IX | were about reaching it,” replied Barbicane.~“You are sceptical,”
81 IX | smash like glass, Michel replied that he would break their
82 IX | Michel.~“I do not think so,” replied Barbicane. “The perpendicularity
83 IX | have passed it.”~“True,” replied Barbicane. “But we started
84 IX | No! a hundred times, no!” replied Barbicane. “An excess of
85 IX | Nicholl.~“I cannot say,” replied Barbicane.~“Very well, then,
86 IX | however little it might be,” replied Barbicane, “in a distance
87 XI | of his pupils.~“No, sir!” replied the pupil, still more ironically, “
88 XII | asked Michel.~“Copernicus,” replied Barbicane.~“Let us see Copernicus.”~
89 XII | Nicholl.~“We do not know,” replied Barbicane.~“What splendid
90 XII | What would you say, then,” replied Barbicane, “if chance should
91 XII | light of the sun?”~“No,” replied Barbicane; “if it was so,
92 XII | an explanation.”~“Yes,” replied Barbicane; “Herschel has
93 XII | resembles?” said Michel.~“No,” replied Nicholl.~“Very well; with
94 XII | Well, let us be serious,” replied Michel quietly; “and instead
95 XII | For a very natural one,” replied Barbicane. “The Selenites
96 XII | Michel.~“A singular idea,” replied Nicholl; “but it is probable
97 XIII | fields!”~“Cultivated fields!” replied Nicholl, shrugging his shoulders.~“
98 XIII | rifts.”~“Rifts? stuff!” replied Michel mildly; “but what
99 XIII | yourself, my worthy president,” replied Michel; “might it not be
100 XIII | ingenious, my dear companion,” replied Barbicane, “but inadmissible.”~“
101 XIV | first direction.”~“Well,” replied Michel Ardan, “as the matter
102 XIV | nothing but to see the moon!” replied Michel.~“Very well!” continued
103 XIV | its rays.”~“Quite right,” replied Nicholl.~“On the contrary,”
104 XIV | are intelligent.”~“Yes,” replied Michel coolly, “we are all
105 XIV | by nature.”~“Never mind,” replied Michel; “if we ever become
106 XIV | of the planetary space,” replied Barbicane.~“Then,” continued
107 XIV | rays?~“It is now or never,” replied Barbicane, “for we are in
108 XIV | Nicholl.~“Nothing is easier,” replied Michel Ardan, who was never
109 XIV | Barbicane.~“With the hand,” replied Michel.~“Well, then, my
110 XV | if we get near enough?” replied Michel.~“Pure mistake,”
111 XV | Michel.~“Pure mistake,” replied Barbicane. “Have you not
112 XV | see but two hypotheses,” replied Barbicane, after some moments’
113 XV | a hyperbola.”~“Just so,” replied Barbicane. “With a certain
114 XV | lead us to?”~“Nowhere,” replied Nicholl.~“How, nowhere?”~“
115 XV | Well said, Nicholl,” replied Michel Ardan. “What do you
116 XV | extinguished.”~“Yes, an eruption,” replied Barbicane, who was carefully
117 XV | the moon.”~“Perhaps so,” replied Barbicane, “but not necessarily.~
118 XV | ill-conditioned moon?”~“A meteor,” replied Barbicane.~“A meteor burning
119 XVI | passed the north pole,” replied Michel. “We have made the
120 XVI | observe, my worthy friend,” replied Barbicane, “that we are
121 XVII | the orb of day.”~“Yes,” replied Michel Ardan, “imbibing
122 XVII | do not dispute the fact,” replied Michel Ardan.~Some minutes
123 XVII | Nicholl.~“It is 150 miles,” replied Barbicane. “This circle
124 XVII | be too small for them,” replied Barbicane simply.~
125 XVIII| inexplicable.”~“Eh! by Jove!” replied Michel Ardan, “it seems
126 XVIII| square of glass!”~“Well!” replied Barbicane, smiling. “And
127 XVIII| That Nasmyth was no fool!” replied Michel.~Long did the travelers,
128 XVIII| Put it your own way,” replied Michel.~“Here it is,” continued
129 XVIII| been inhabitable?”~“Good!” replied Nicholl. “First let us see
130 XVIII| understand it.”~“Agreed,” replied Nicholl. “But is not the
131 XVIII| creatures which do not live,” replied Michel.~“Just so,” said
132 XVIII| opinion?” said Michel.~“Yes,” replied Nicholl.~“Very well,” continued
133 XVIII| Barbicane?”~“My friends,” replied Barbicane, “I did not undertake
134 XVIII| solar rays.”~“Granted,” replied Nicholl, “but why should
135 XVIII| still fluid?”~“Just so,” replied Nicholl; “and who can say
136 XVIII| disappeared from the moon?”~“Yes,” replied Barbicane, “after having
137 XVIII| By cooling?”~“Certainly,” replied Barbicane; “as the internal
138 XVIII| Very well, my good Michel,” replied Barbicane quietly; “we know
139 XIX | Ardan.~“We don’t know,” replied Barbicane.~“But one can
140 XIX | better, my worthy Michel,” replied Barbicane, “but means fail
141 XIX | do not say we are not,” replied Barbicane; “but why?”~“Because
142 XIX | drawing it nearer?”~“Just so,” replied Michel.~“Let us wait, then.
143 XIX | Nicholl.~“All is ready,” replied Michel Ardan, directing
144 XX | nearing its completion,” replied Lieutenant Bronsfield. “
145 XX | and twenty-seven fathoms,” replied the lieutenant, entering
146 XX | in.”~“Do so, sir; do so!” replied the lieutenant obligingly.~
147 XX | should like to believe it,” replied the lieutenant, who was
148 XX | ironically.~“Not necessarily,” replied the midshipman, not at all
149 XX | to her.”~“It is clear,” replied Lieutenant Bronsfield, “
150 XXI | suffocation.”~“Burned!” replied a fourth; “the projectile
151 XXI | projectile fell.”~“Besides,” replied Lieutenant Bronsfield, “
152 XXI | Well, Mr. Bronsfield,” replied the captain, “now, with
153 XXI | would have paid for it,” replied Belfast severely.~“And that
154 XXI | Fish up the projectile,” replied J. T. Maston, “and the sooner
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