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1 Pre | intrepid adventurer was Michel Ardan. He landed in America,
2 Pre | destination. These bold travelers, Michel Ardan, President Barbicane,
3 Pre | and the audacious humor of Michel Ardan. Besides this, it
4 I | As ten o’clock struck, Michel Ardan, Barbicane, and Nicholl,
5 I | my dear companions,” said Michel Ardan, “let us make ourselves
6 I | in the shape of a dome.~Michel Ardan examined everything,
7 I | advances an inch!”~While Michel Ardan was speaking, Barbicane
8 I | Nicholl.~“Well!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, in a good-humored
9 I | which to investigate——”~“Michel,” said Barbicane, “during
10 I | protect us?”~“I hope so, Michel,” replied Barbicane gently, “
11 I | Ah, the joker!” exclaimed Michel Ardan. “He hopes!—He is
12 I | Barbicane.~“Humph!” said Michel Ardan, “it is not easy;
13 I | Nicholl.~“Then,” replied Michel Ardan, ready to suit the
14 I | I may cheer up,” said Michel Ardan.~“Do you approve of
15 I | is not a man,” exclaimed Michel; “he is a chronometer with
16 I | Barbicane.~“There are,” said Michel Ardan, “just as there are
17 I | practical men!” exclaimed Michel Ardan; “I admire you the
18 I | little minutes!” replied Michel Ardan; “and we are enclosed
19 I | interplanetary space.”~“Enough, Michel, enough!” said Barbicane,
20 I | friends.”~“Yes,” exclaimed Michel Ardan, more moved than he
21 I | the religious Barbicane.~Michel Ardan and Nicholl stretched
22 II | Barbicane, Nicholl, and Michel Ardan— did they still breathe?
23 II | getting on its knees. It was Michel Ardan. He felt himself all
24 II | sonorous “Hem!” and then said:~“Michel Ardan is whole. How about
25 II | betrayed it; and in that case Michel Ardan could not have carried
26 II | Each in turn,” replied Michel Ardan. “I began with you,
27 II | really moving?” repeated Michel Ardan.~“Or quietly resting
28 II | the Gulf of Mexico?” added Michel Ardan.~“What an idea!” exclaimed
29 II | intense cold.~“What!” said Michel Ardan. “According to your
30 II | atmosphere?”~“Without a doubt, Michel. Listen to me. It is fifty-five
31 II | and——”~“And then,” said Michel Ardan, “friend Nicholl has
32 II | goodness, captain,” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “that hypothesis
33 II | Hurrah! hurrah!” exclaimed Michel Ardan and Nicholl in one
34 II | placed it in his pocketbook. Michel Ardan, taking off his hat,
35 II | in space.~“Ah!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “What is that? another
36 II | it.~“By Jove!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “we shall run into
37 II | journey to you,” exclaimed Michel Ardan, with a sigh of relief. “
38 II | it possible!” exclaimed Michel Ardan; “the earth then has
39 II | French leagues,” exclaimed Michel Ardan. “That beats the express
40 II | vanishing globe.~“Yes,” said Michel Ardan, “do not let us be
41 II | interior and the exterior.~Michel Ardan knelt by the glass.
42 II | silver crescent?”~“Doubtless, Michel. In four days, when the
43 II | That the earth?” repeated Michel Ardan, looking with all
44 II | thousand in an hour. But Michel Ardan, disdaining scientific
45 II | What have you found?” asked Michel Ardan, jumping from his
46 III | is the dogs!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, rising at once.~“
47 III | Nicholl.~“By Jove!” replied Michel, “we have forgotten them.”~“
48 III | without much persuasion, Michel Ardan encouraging her with
49 III | is Adam?”~“Adam?” replied Michel; “Adam cannot be far off;
50 III | state.~“The devil!” said Michel.~They brought the unfortunate
51 III | take care of you,” said Michel; “we are responsible for
52 III | circle.~“By Jove!” said Michel Ardan, “I am really sorry
53 III | Our likenesses!” exclaimed Michel Ardan; “They are no more
54 III | Which means to say?” asked Michel Ardan.~“That it is half-past
55 III | Nicholl.~“Very well,” retorted Michel; “then it is impossible
56 III | imperious laws of hunger. Michel Ardan, as a Frenchman, was
57 III | an English eating-house. Michel, who was imaginative, maintained
58 III | nature,” said the amiable Michel) succeeded the dish of meat;
59 III | earth.~“The sun!” exclaimed Michel Ardan.~“No doubt,” replied
60 III | expected it.”~“But,” said Michel, “the conical shadow which
61 III | I should think so,” said Michel Ardan. “With a little earth
62 III | sublime captain,” exclaimed Michel Ardan, clasping his friend’
63 III | of grain and shrubs which Michel Ardan hoped to transplant
64 III | unparalleled dexterity. Michel Ardan chatted first with
65 IV | sounded through the car. Michel Ardan, who was the first
66 IV | Nicholl.~“Why no, my friends,” Michel answered quickly; “it was
67 IV | his companion.~“Yes,” said Michel; “a joke in my country.
68 IV | weight.”~“So be it,” said Michel; “but, once more; how could
69 IV | that calculation?” asked Michel Ardan.~“Perfectly. Nicholl
70 IV | old Barbicane,” replied Michel; “they might have cut off
71 IV | you have said ‘Algebra.’”~“Michel,” said Barbicane, “can you
72 IV | advanced.”~“Then,” said Michel Ardan, in his sly tone, “
73 IV | raising his head, showed Michel Ardan a page covered with
74 IV | that means?”~“Of course, Michel,” replied the captain. “
75 IV | pretend, Nicholl,” asked Michel, “that by means of these
76 IV | as our president.”~“No, Michel; the difficult part is what
77 IV | That is something!” replied Michel Ardan, who for his life
78 IV | understand no more,” said Michel.~“It is a very simple calculation,”
79 IV | simple as I am,” retorted Michel.~“That means, that when
80 IV | That I admit,” answered Michel; “and I understand it, although
81 IV | value.”~“Finish me!” replied Michel.~Barbicane took the paper,
82 IV | Barbicane watched him, while Michel Ardan nursed a growing headache
83 IV | What is the matter?” asked Michel Ardan, much surprised.~“
84 IV | the projectile!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, jumping as if it
85 V | examining his calculations. Michel Ardan was muttering:~“That
86 V | Very well then,” said Michel Ardan quietly; “as we are
87 V | should we not succeed?” said Michel Ardan; “why should we not
88 V | to the Americans,” added Michel Ardan, “the only people
89 V | contingency, my friends,” replied Michel; “you have only to speak,
90 V | trifles?”~“Certainly,” replied Michel, “and not only to distract
91 V | from them.”~“What!” said Michel; “you believe that they
92 V | strong.”~“Then,” continued Michel, “I repeat it, why have
93 V | Old Barbicane,” said Michel, “you have an answer for
94 V | her breakfast.~“Ah!” said Michel Ardan, “in our discussion
95 V | you see, Barbicane,” said Michel, “we should have made a
96 V | have failed us.”~“Oh!” said Michel, “we might have squeezed
97 V | asked Barbicane. “Why,” said Michel, “they make their skins
98 V | Nicholl.~“No,” answered Michel, “he is dead! There,” added
99 V | wound. It was quite dead. Michel Ardan looked at his friends
100 V | precautions.”~“Why?” asked Michel.~“For two reasons which
101 V | only the oxygen, my worthy Michel; and with regard to that,
102 V | out poor Satellite?” said Michel.~“Agreed; but we must act
103 V | the second reason?” asked Michel.~“The second reason is that
104 V | Nicholl.~“Who knows?” said Michel Ardan. “But, in admitting
105 V | said Barbicane, “there is Michel with his ideas.”~“And,”
106 V | ideas.”~“And,” continued Michel, “do we not know that in
107 V | below zero.”~“Pooh!” said Michel, “that’s nothing!”~“It is
108 V | mean by a vacuum?” asked Michel. “Is it perfectly such?”~“
109 V | were carefully drawn, while Michel, quite grieved, prepared
110 VI | Nicholl always serious, Michel Ardan always enthusiastic.
111 VI | breakfasting, a question of Michel’s, relating to the projectile,
112 VI | which is worth repeating. Michel, supposing it to be roughly
113 VI | let us suppose so,” said Michel.~“It is an impossible supposition,”
114 VI | death.”~“Burned?” exclaimed Michel, “by Jove! I am sorry it
115 VI | in motion.”~“Well,” said michel, “that is an ingenious theory!”~“
116 VI | I understand,” replied Michel, “perfectly. For example,
117 VI | could not help smiling at Michel’s reply; then, returning
118 VI | to vapor.”~“Well,” said Michel, “that is a way of ending
119 VI | heat for the sun,” replied Michel Ardan, “of which the inhabitants
120 VI | Oh, dear!” murmured Michel, “the figures are coming.”~“
121 VI | is the solar heat?” asked Michel.~“It is equal to that produced
122 VI | not roast us!” exclaimed Michel.~“No,” replied Barbicane, “
123 VI | all is for the best,” said Michel, “and that this atmosphere
124 VI | in the moon.”~“Bah!” said Michel, always hopeful. “If there
125 VI | mountains; that is all.” And Michel, rising, went to look at
126 VI | country, that!” exclaimed Michel. “Never mind! I wish I was
127 VI | semidiameter——”~“Oh!” said Michel. “Do speak plainly, you
128 VI | its center.”~“Then,” said Michel, in a merry tone, “why are
129 VI | reason satisfies me,” replied Michel. “Besides we shall see when
130 VI | an idea!”~“Yes,” replied Michel, with an amiable swagger, “
131 VI | idea does not spring from Michel,” answered Nicholl.~“Well,
132 VI | this hypothesis?” asked Michel.~“None whatever,” said Barbicane, “
133 VI | not know.”~“Ah!” exclaimed Michel, “what hundred of volumes
134 VI | Nicholl.~“How time goes,” said Michel, “in the conversation of
135 VI | becoming a well!”~Saying which, Michel hoisted himself to the roof
136 VI | Nothing new to note!~When Michel Ardan came down, he went
137 VI | that machine?” continued Michel Ardan. “Is it one of the
138 VI | that we are!” exclaimed Michel.~“Why that expletive?” asked
139 VI | But if it did not fail, Michel, your density being less
140 VI | We must!”~“Ah!” exclaimed Michel, in a load voice.~“What
141 VII | depths.~“Besides,” observed Michel Ardan, “a plain is easier
142 VII | face.~“Face, indeed!” said Michel Ardan; “but I am sorry for
143 VII | spite of his preoccupation, Michel Ardan did not forget to
144 VII | crowned the repast, causing Michel Ardan to remark that the
145 VII | perfect order; so each morning Michel visited the escape regulators,
146 VII | know, my friends,” said Michel Ardan, “that if one of us
147 VII | Nicholl.~“Ah!” continued Michel, “what I regret is not being
148 VII | projectile.”~“Well, old Michel,” replied Barbicane, “you
149 VII | projectile are forbidden.”~Michel Ardan allowed himself to
150 VII | leave a country,” added Michel, “When we have not yet arrived
151 VII | Barbicane.~“And I,” said Michel, “if I had known how to
152 VII | Nicholl.~“I quite approve of Michel’s words,” said Barbicane; “
153 VII | weight.”~“Enough,” said Michel with animation. “Let it
154 VII | volcanoes.”~“Well thought of, Michel,” said Barbicane in a convinced
155 VII | that.”~“Hurrah!” exclaimed Michel; “these meteors are handy
156 VII | quintupled it!” exclaimed Michel, with whom the verb took
157 VII | stars of the Union!” said Michel, “I have nothing but impracticable
158 VII | to-day?”~“Yes,” continued Michel, “yes, Maston will come,
159 VII | do not know!” exclaimed Michel, with a bellow which provoked
160 VII | Well, I know,” replied Michel.~“Speak, then,” cried Nicholl,
161 VII | it suits me,” exclaimed Michel, seizing his companions’
162 VII | going.”~“Why?” exclaimed Michel, jumping a yard high, “why?
163 VII | no Selenites?” exclaimed Michel in a threatening tone.~“
164 VII | Nicholl.~“Captain,” said Michel, “do not repreat that insolence,
165 VII | them.”~“Yes,” exclaimed Michel, who was not particular; “
166 VII | be the congress,” cried Michel.~“And I the senate,” retorted
167 VII | the president,” howled Michel.~“Not a president elected
168 VII | by the congress,” cried Michel; “and as I am the congress,
169 VII | hip! hip!” vociferated Michel Ardan.~Then the president
170 VIII | disastrous? A simple blunder of Michel’s, which, fortunately, Nicholl
171 VIII | got up and demanded from Michel a supplementary repast.
172 VIII | a supplementary repast. Michel, utterly done up, did not
173 VIII | disorders in the system. Michel had blunderingly opened
174 VIII | does over his wine.~When Michel learned his share of the
175 VIII | the sake of its health!”~Michel spoke with so much animation
176 VIII | is all very well, friend Michel,” said he, “but will you
177 VIII | awkward things!” exclaimed Michel. “The oxygen has made them
178 VIII | not wise then?” replied Michel Ardan.~After this philosophical
179 VIII | the air.~“Ah!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “that is rather an
180 VIII | too, placed in space by Michel, reproduced, but without
181 VIII | nothing themselves.~Suddenly Michel, taking a spring, left the
182 VIII | it possible?” exclaimed Michel; “and yet it is so. Ah!
183 VIII | upon the roof,” replied Michel.~“No,” said Barbicane, “
184 VIII | a fact.”~“Calm yourself, Michel,” replied Nicholl; “no upset
185 VIII | the neutral line,” cried Michel; “then let us do as the
186 VIII | slight side movement brought Michel back toward the padded side;
187 VIII | enterprise, and Nicholl and Michel Ardan shared Barbicane’s
188 VIII | neutralization of the laws of weight. Michel Ardan, always enthusiastic,
189 VIII | modern society!”~“Yes,” cried Michel, full of his subject, “destroy
190 VIII | hat on your head, worthy Michel; nor your house, whose stones
191 VIII | That is tiresome,” retorted Michel; “nothing like these matter-of-fact
192 VIII | But console yourself, Michel,” continued Barbicane, “
193 VIII | we shall feel it?” asked Michel.~“Evidently, as two hundred
194 VIII | in the moon!” exclaimed Michel.~“Yes,” replied Nicholl; “
195 VIII | Lilliputians!” ejaculated Michel; “I shall play the part
196 VIII | solar world.”~“One moment, Michel,” answered Barbicane; “if
197 VIII | high.”~“By Jove!” exclaimed Michel; “I should be nothing more
198 VIII | again.”~“The devil!” said Michel; “one would want a portable
199 IX | are sceptical,” retorted Michel Ardan. “We shall arrive,
200 IX | as Barbicane’s enemy and Michel Ardan’s adversary. To Captain
201 IX | would smash like glass, Michel replied that he would break
202 IX | audacious adventurer like Michel Ardan.~Conversation was
203 IX | diverted from our route,” said Michel; “but why?”~“I very much
204 IX | have aimed badly?” asked Michel.~“I do not think so,” replied
205 IX | then, Barbicane,” said Michel, “do you wish to know my
206 IX | of attraction or other.”~Michel Ardan’s indifference did
207 IX | ask but one thing,” said Michel; “that we may pass near
208 IX | our path.”~“What?” said Michel Ardan.~“What do you mean?”
209 IX | brush us as it passed,” said Michel.~“What does that matter?
210 X | its very obliquity, gave Michel Ardan some hopes of striking
211 X | with merciless logic.~“No, Michel, no! We can only reach the
212 X | in a tone which quenched Michel Ardan’s last hope.~The portion
213 XI | Argonauts. So at least it was in Michel Ardan’s eyes. To him it
214 XI | up to the present time. Michel Ardan was right when he
215 XI | man.”~In speaking thus, Michel made his prosaic companions
216 XI | And was not the fantastic Michel right in thus interpreting
217 XII | at this moment?” asked Michel.~“At the northern part of
218 XII | rays.~“That is—?” asked Michel.~“Copernicus,” replied Barbicane.~“
219 XII | splendid radiation!” said Michel. “One could hardly see a
220 XII | more beautiful,” retorted Michel Ardan.~At this moment the
221 XII | these lines of light?” asked Michel; “for I cannot believe that
222 XII | are at, resembles?” said Michel.~“No,” replied Nicholl.~“
223 XII | us be serious,” replied Michel quietly; “and instead of
224 XII | difficult to please,” answered Michel.~“My worthy friend,” continued
225 XII | Well answered,” exclaimed Michel. “That will teach me to
226 XII | Selenites are not fools,” said Michel.~“A singular idea,” replied
227 XII | than on the earth?” said Michel.~“But if the Selenites are
228 XIII | decide upon the cause of it.~Michel Ardan was watching near
229 XIII | parallel with each other.~Michel, with his usual readiness,
230 XIII | at all events,” retorted Michel Ardan; “but what laborers
231 XIII | Rifts? stuff!” replied Michel mildly; “but what do you
232 XIII | must, however, allow that Michel Ardan had “an idea,” and
233 XIII | worthy president,” replied Michel; “might it not be possible
234 XIII | Barbicane.~“I like,” retorted Michel Ardan, “to explain what
235 XIII | mineral.~“Ah, indeed!” said Michel Ardan, a little out of countenance; “
236 XIII | visible on the black sky.~Michel Ardan wanted to open one
237 XIII | whatever of the satellite, Michel, carried along by its motion,
238 XIV | Melted, disappeared!” Michel Ardan exclaimed, aghast.~
239 XIV | radiant orb!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “which forces us
240 XIV | It is the sun!” continued Michel.~“It is the moon!” retorted
241 XIV | direction.”~“Well,” replied Michel Ardan, “as the matter is
242 XIV | meeting with no contradiction, Michel prepared the repast in a
243 XIV | to see the moon!” replied Michel.~“Very well!” continued
244 XIV | Nicely worded!” said Michel, “slightly academical perhaps.”~“
245 XIV | for you, Nicholl, because Michel will probably not understand.”~“
246 XIV | understand.”~“Thank you,” said Michel.~“Indeed,” continued Barbicane, “
247 XIV | Barbicane.~“One moment,” said Michel, interrupting his grave
248 XIV | On the contrary,” said Michel, imitating the tone and
249 XIV | Barbicane. “Do you know, Michel, that, for an amateur, you
250 XIV | intelligent.”~“Yes,” replied Michel coolly, “we are all so on
251 XIV | Never mind,” replied Michel; “if we ever become Selenites,
252 XIV | be a consideration,” said Michel.~Breakfast over, the observers
253 XIV | Fahrenheit.~ “Well!” observed Michel, “we cannot reasonably complain
254 XIV | Barbicane.~“Then,” continued Michel Ardan, “would not this be
255 XIV | any case it is cold,” said Michel. “See! the steam of the
256 XIV | Nothing is easier,” replied Michel Ardan, who was never at
257 XIV | With the hand,” replied Michel.~“Well, then, my friend,
258 XIV | The devil!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “it is cold enough
259 XV | arose on this subject, and Michel Ardan, always ready with
260 XV | get near enough?” replied Michel.~“Pure mistake,” replied
261 XV | upon it.”~“But then,” asked Michel, “I shall be curious to
262 XV | grand words,” exclaimed Michel Ardan; “one knows directly
263 XV | the sides.”~“Ah! ah!” said Michel, in a satisfied tone.~“It
264 XV | hyperbola?”~“The hyperbola, Michel, is a curve of the second
265 XV | it possible!” exclaimed Michel Ardan in a serious tone,
266 XV | Barbicane cared little for Michel Ardan’s fun. They were deep
267 XV | couched in language which made Michel jump. The discussion was
268 XV | lasted so long that it made Michel very impatient.~“Now, gentlemen
269 XV | indefinitely.”~“Ah, savants!” cried Michel; “and what are either the
270 XV | drew this reflection from Michel, apparently a just one:~“
271 XV | said, Nicholl,” replied Michel Ardan. “What do you think,
272 XV | to say to that,” answered Michel Ardan. “Here is, however,
273 XV | volcano?”~“But, then,” said Michel Ardan, “in order to maintain
274 XV | Barbicane, Nicholl, and Michel Ardan, bathed in its white
275 XV | with salt.~“By Jove!” cried Michel Ardan, “we are hideous.
276 XV | wonderfully intense, that Michel, drawing Barbicane and Nicholl
277 XVI | studies. About five o’clock, Michel Ardan distributed, under
278 XVI | sun?” answered Nicholl and Michel Ardan.~“Yes, my friends,
279 XVI | the north pole,” replied Michel. “We have made the circuit
280 XVI | satellite, then?”~“Yes, my good Michel.”~“Then, no more hyperbolas,
281 XVI | Moon of the moon!” cried Michel Ardan.~“Only, I would have
282 XVII | of day.”~“Yes,” replied Michel Ardan, “imbibing as it were
283 XVII | had ever existed there.~Michel Ardan, however, thought
284 XVII | to the Asiatic Caucasus. Michel Ardan, with his accustomed
285 XVII | dispute the fact,” replied Michel Ardan.~Some minutes after
286 XVII | my friends,” exclaimed Michel, “can you picture to yourselves
287 XVII | Barbicane was not listening to Michel Ardan; he was contemplating
288 XVII | the southern hemisphere. Michel Ardan used every metaphor
289 XVII | times over.~“Ah!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, enthusiastic at the
290 XVIII| Eh! by Jove!” replied Michel Ardan, “it seems easy enough
291 XVIII| Barbicane.~“Indeed,” continued Michel. “It is enough to say that
292 XVIII| exclaimed Barbicane. “My brave Michel, your explanation is not
293 XVIII| lunar stomach-ache.” said Michel Ardan.~“Besides,” added
294 XVIII| Nasmyth was no fool!” replied Michel.~Long did the travelers,
295 XVIII| decide for or against it? Michel Ardan persuaded his two
296 XVIII| it your own way,” replied Michel.~“Here it is,” continued
297 XVIII| nothing about it,” answered Michel.~“And I answer in the negative,”
298 XVIII| which do not live,” replied Michel.~“Just so,” said Barbicane, “
299 XVIII| form our opinion?” said Michel.~“Yes,” replied Nicholl.~“
300 XVIII| Very well,” continued Michel Ardan, “the Scientific Commission
301 XVIII| extinct!”~“Then,” asked Michel, “the moon must be older
302 XVIII| they last six months,” said Michel.~“An argument of little
303 XVIII| you.”~“Astonish us?” said Michel Ardan.~“I firmly believe
304 XVIII| who can say,” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “that the moon did
305 XVIII| possible.”~“And so,” asked Michel Ardan, “humanity has disappeared
306 XVIII| clumsy savant,” exclaimed Michel Ardan, “for you make me
307 XVIII| impatience!”~“Very well, my good Michel,” replied Barbicane quietly; “
308 XVIII| thousand years!” exclaimed Michel. “Ah! I breathe again. Really
309 XIX | will become of us?” asked Michel Ardan.~“We don’t know,”
310 XIX | it may be,” interrupted Michel.~“Or,” continued Barbicane, “
311 XIX | at all consoling,” said Michel, “to pass to the state of
312 XIX | do not answer,” continued Michel impatiently.~“There is nothing
313 XIX | Subdue it?”~“Yes,” continued Michel, getting animated, “or else
314 XIX | No recrimination,” said Michel. “I do not complain, the
315 XIX | ask no better, my worthy Michel,” replied Barbicane, “but
316 XIX | weight.”~“Very well,” cried Michel Ardan in a decided voice; “
317 XIX | point of view. Certainly Michel had none but good ideas.~
318 XIX | the hour mattered little. Michel served his usual repast,
319 XIX | disturbed by a cry from Michel Ardan.~“By Jove!” he exclaimed, “
320 XIX | will do so.”~“When?” asked Michel.~“When the time comes. Observe,
321 XIX | nearer?”~“Just so,” replied Michel.~“Let us wait, then. By
322 XIX | lunar disc.”~“Bravo!” said Michel. “What we did not do, what
323 XIX | conclusion was a signal for Michel Ardan’s hips and hurrahs.
324 XIX | What a motion!” exclaimed Michel Ardan.~“It is forty hours
325 XIX | strength.”~“Never,” interrupted Michel.~“Well,” continued Nicholl, “
326 XIX | baritone.~“Certainly,” said Michel Ardan, finding himself alone, “
327 XIX | arms folded under his head, Michel slept in his turn.~But this
328 XIX | plunged in their calculations, Michel going and coming between
329 XIX | All is ready,” replied Michel Ardan, directing a lighted
330 XIX | clock,” said Barbicane.~Michel Ardan applied the lighted
331 XIX | Are we falling?” asked Michel Ardan, at length.~“No,”
332 XIX | falling!” said he.~“Ah!” cried Michel Ardan, “on to the moon?”~“
333 XIX | The devil!” exclaimed Michel Ardan, adding philosophically, “
334 XIX | hour.~“We are lost!” said Michel coolly.~“Very well! if we
335 XIX | In fact,” interrupted Michel Ardan, “the whole of the
336 XX | writing out his notes, and Michel Ardan embalming the lunar
337 XXI | adding that he could see Michel Ardan’s face looking through
338 XXII | Barbicane, Nicholl, and Michel Ardan was an international
339 XXII | Nicholl, Barbicane, and Michel Ardan, as if his unfortunate
340 XXII | merry voice, the voice of Michel Ardan, exclaiming in an
341 XXII | white all!”~Barbicane, Michel Ardan, and Nicholl were
342 XXIII| Barbicane, Nicholl, and Michel Ardan? No! and the ardent
343 XXIII| universal longing.~Barbicane, Michel Ardan, Nicholl, and the
344 XXIII| Barbicane, Colonel Nicholl, and Michel Ardan. At the whistle of
345 XXIII| director of movements, Michel Ardan.~And as it is part
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