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 1 II  | mounting into space. See those stars shining in the night, and
 2 II  |        the constellations. The stars looked like bright points
 3 II  |        eclipse the neighboring stars. The heavens, thus seen,
 4 II  |  brilliant cluster of shooting stars burst upon their eyes. Hundreds
 5 II  |   propitious to these shooting stars, that astronomers have counted
 6 III |       the centers of the three stars, the sun, the earth, and
 7 III |  celestial sphere swarmed with stars and constellations of wonderful
 8 III |       by an impalpable dust of stars, the “Milky Way,” in the
 9 V   |        by the radiation of the stars; that is to say, what the
10 VI  |    seem to change. The sun and stars appeared exactly as they
11 VII |   ground.”~“By the thirty-nine stars of the Union!” said Michel, “
12 XIII|      absolutely black, and the stars would shine to him as on
13 XIV |        so by the rays from the stars. It was “that blackness”
14 XIV |        their part of the polar stars, the one to Canopus in the
15 XIV |      this scintillation. These stars were soft eyes, looking
16 XV  |     Have you not seen shooting stars rush through the sky by
17 XV  |  seasons?”~“Yes.”~“Well, these stars, or rather corpuscles, only
18 XV  |       accustomed darkness; the stars, eclipsed for a moment,
19 XVII|       They saw once more those stars which move slowly from east