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1 Pre | the fate in store for the said projectile; for in making
2 I | now, my dear companions,” said Michel Ardan, “let us make
3 I | installation.~“It is a prison,” said he, “but a traveling prison;
4 I | consulted it.~“My friends,” said he, “it is twenty minutes
5 I | Ardan.~“Twenty-four only,” said Nicholl.~“Well, twenty-four,
6 I | like, my noble captain,” said Ardan; “twenty-four minutes
7 I | investigate——”~“Michel,” said Barbicane, “during the passage
8 I | asked Barbicane.~“Humph!” said Michel Ardan, “it is not
9 I | minutes are over.”~“Twenty,” said Nicholl.~For some moments
10 I | Everything is in its place,” said Barbicane. “We have now
11 I | to the head.”~“Just so,” said Nicholl.~“Then,” replied
12 I | the grand circus.”~“No,” said Barbicane, “let us stretch
13 I | thing,’ I may cheer up,” said Michel Ardan.~“Do you approve
14 I | there are dogs in the moon,” said Barbicane.~“There are,”
15 I | Barbicane.~“There are,” said Michel Ardan, “just as there
16 I | dollars we shall find none!” said Nicholl.~“Done, my captain!”
17 I | Forty-two minutes past ten!” said Nicholl.~“Only five minutes
18 I | Enough, Michel, enough!” said Barbicane, in a serious
19 I | embrace.~“God preserve us!” said the religious Barbicane.~
20 II | sonorous “Hem!” and then said:~“Michel Ardan is whole.
21 II | a drunken man.~“Bur-r!” said he. “It produces the same
22 II | around him.~“And Barbicane?” said he.~“Each in turn,” replied
23 II | friction.~“He breathes though,” said Nicholl, putting his ear
24 II | suffer intense cold.~“What!” said Michel Ardan. “According
25 II | interval, and——”~“And then,” said Michel Ardan, “friend Nicholl
26 II | Let us prove it first,” said the captain, “and we will
27 II | I, either.”~“Very well,” said Nicholl.~“Well now,” murmured
28 II | find out where we are,” said Barbicane, “and let down
29 II | the earth.~“I have lost,” said Nicholl.~“I congratulate
30 II | nine thousand dollars,” said the captain, drawing a roll
31 II | Do not alarm yourself,” said Barbicane; “our future globe
32 II | know everything.”~“It is,” said Barbicane, “a simple meteorite,
33 II | position in space is.”~“How?” said Ardan.~“Because its distance
34 II | Only thirteen minutes?” said Barbicane.~“Yes,” said Nicholl; “
35 II | said Barbicane.~“Yes,” said Nicholl; “and if our initiatory
36 II | very well, my friends,” said the president, “but the
37 II | vanishing globe.~“Yes,” said Michel Ardan, “do not let
38 II | the earth?”~“The earth?” said Barbicane. “There it is.”~“
39 II | was inevitable.~“Well,” said Nicholl, “since we must
40 II | Columbiad.”~“And it is——?” said Nicholl.~“Because our projectile
41 III | once.~“They are hungry,” said Nicholl.~“By Jove!” replied
42 III | gracious words.~“Come, Diana,” said he: “come, my girl! thou
43 III | plaintive cries.~“Good,” said Barbicane: “I see Eve, but
44 III | piteous state.~“The devil!” said Michel.~They brought the
45 III | will take care of you,” said Michel; “we are responsible
46 III | perfect circle.~“By Jove!” said Michel Ardan, “I am really
47 III | opposition to the sun.”~“Why?” said Nicholl.~“Because we should
48 III | fresher than nature,” said the amiable Michel) succeeded
49 III | I expected it.”~“But,” said Michel, “the conical shadow
50 III | taken into consideration,” said Barbicane. “But when the
51 III | It is pleasant here,” said Nicholl.~“I should think
52 III | Nicholl.~“I should think so,” said Michel Ardan. “With a little
53 III | What astonishes me,” said Barbicane, “is that we have
54 III | provided for.”~“I feared it,” said Nicholl simply.~“And you
55 IV | of which was partly open, said in a low voice, “Will you
56 IV | Barbicane were awake.~“A cock!” said Nicholl.~“Why no, my friends,”
57 IV | laughing.~“Fine talent that,” said Nicholl, looking suspiciously
58 IV | at his companion.~“Yes,” said Michel; “a joke in my country.
59 IV | its weight.”~“So be it,” said Michel; “but, once more;
60 IV | x^1; you think you have said all when you have said ‘
61 IV | have said all when you have said ‘Algebra.’”~“Michel,” said
62 IV | said ‘Algebra.’”~“Michel,” said Barbicane, “can you use
63 IV | enough advanced.”~“Then,” said Michel Ardan, in his sly
64 IV | tone, “mathematics have not said their last word?”~“Certainly
65 IV | atmosphere.”~“Just so,” said Nicholl; “it is from that
66 IV | I understand no more,” said Michel.~“It is a very simple
67 IV | very simple calculation,” said Barbicane.~“Not as simple
68 IV | written in letters of fire,” said Nicholl.~“Wonderful fellows!”
69 IV | splitting with it.”~“And now,” said Nicholl, “to find out the
70 IV | attraction, ought to be——”~“Yes?” said Barbicane.~“Twelve thousand
71 V | communicated to Barbicane.~“Ah!” said he; “it is seven o’clock
72 V | considerable weight.”~“Just so,” said Nicholl.~“Ah, my brave Nicholl,
73 V | saved!”~“Very well then,” said Michel Ardan quietly; “as
74 V | should we not succeed?” said Michel Ardan; “why should
75 V | aim?”~“It will attain it,” said Barbicane.~“If only to do
76 V | with them.”~“My friend,” said Barbicane, “if the moon
77 V | learn from them.”~“What!” said Michel; “you believe that
78 V | they have never done so?” said Barbicane seriously.~“Indeed,”
79 V | done it?”~“And I repeat,” said Barbicane; “who told you
80 V | hardened.”~“Old Barbicane,” said Michel, “you have an answer
81 V | for her breakfast.~“Ah!” said Michel Ardan, “in our discussion
82 V | Do you see, Barbicane,” said Michel, “we should have
83 V | would have failed us.”~“Oh!” said Michel, “we might have squeezed
84 V | asked Barbicane. “Why,” said Michel, “they make their
85 V | is no longer ill.”~“Ah!” said Nicholl.~“No,” answered
86 V | question presents itself,” said Barbicane. “We cannot keep
87 V | for some moments, and then said:~“Yes, we must do so, but
88 V | throwing out poor Satellite?” said Michel.~“Agreed; but we
89 V | replied Nicholl.~“Who knows?” said Michel Ardan. “But, in admitting
90 V | away from it?”~“There!” said Barbicane, “there is Michel
91 V | Centigrade below zero.”~“Pooh!” said Michel, “that’s nothing!”~“
92 V | zero.”~“If I mistake not,” said Nicholl, “M. Pouillet, another
93 VI | would have been.~“But,” said Barbicane, “I do not see
94 VI | But let us suppose so,” said Michel.~“It is an impossible
95 VI | impossible supposition,” said the practical Barbicane; “
96 VI | meteor which we met.”~“Then,” said Nicholl, “the projectile
97 VI | set in motion.”~“Well,” said michel, “that is an ingenious
98 VI | returning to his theory, said:~“Thus, in case of a shock,
99 VI | raised to such a pitch,” said Barbicane, “that she would
100 VI | reduced to vapor.”~“Well,” said Michel, “that is a way of
101 VI | planets.”~“Thus, my friends,” said Barbicane, “all motion suddenly
102 VI | that all is for the best,” said Michel, “and that this atmosphere
103 VI | us from roasting.”~“Yes!” said Nicholl, “unfortunately,
104 VI | same in the moon.”~“Bah!” said Michel, always hopeful. “
105 VI | intolerable brilliancy.~“By Jove!” said he, “it must be hot up there!”~“
106 VI | And to compensate that,” said Barbicane, “the nights have
107 VI | apparent semidiameter——”~“Oh!” said Michel. “Do speak plainly,
108 VI | from its center.”~“Then,” said Michel, in a merry tone, “
109 VI | Michel.~“None whatever,” said Barbicane, “and the proof
110 VI | Nicholl.~“How time goes,” said Michel, “in the conversation
111 VI | What astonishes me,” said Nicholl, “is that the specific
112 VI | same effect.”~“Just so,” said Nicholl, “and everything
113 VI | themselves up!”~“Granted,” said Barbicane, “but how to breathe?”~“
114 VII | human face.~“Face, indeed!” said Michel Ardan; “but I am
115 VII | oxygen, Captain Nicholl said “it was of the first quality.”
116 VII | Do you know, my friends,” said Michel Ardan, “that if one
117 VII | That would have been sad,” said Nicholl.~“Ah!” continued
118 VII | solution.~“Ah, indeed!” said he; “it is all very well
119 VII | answered Barbicane.~“And I,” said Michel, “if I had known
120 VII | approve of Michel’s words,” said Barbicane; “and add, that
121 VII | laws of weight.”~“Enough,” said Michel with animation. “
122 VII | Well thought of, Michel,” said Barbicane in a convinced
123 VII | thirty-nine stars of the Union!” said Michel, “I have nothing
124 VII | tension of the mind.~“Now,” said Nicholl, in a short tone, “
125 VII | violence.~“It must suit you,” said Barbicane, with an eye on
126 VII | to know what for.”~“Yes,” said the captain, “now that I
127 VII | very contradictory.~“Who said that there were no Selenites?”
128 VII | howled Nicholl.~“Captain,” said Michel, “do not repreat
129 VII | Stop, miserable men,” said he, separating his two companions; “
130 VII | the moon belongs to us,” said Nicholl.~“Let us three constitute
131 VIII | foolish things had been said while under its influence,
132 VIII | very well, friend Michel,” said he, “but will you inform
133 VIII | replied Michel.~“No,” said Barbicane, “because the
134 VIII | did not exist.”~“Just so,” said Nicholl, smiling; “if we
135 VIII | no more burdens!”~“Well said,” replied Barbicane; “but
136 VIII | Gulliver with the giants,” said Nicholl.~“Just so,” replied
137 VIII | raise again.”~“The devil!” said Michel; “one would want
138 IX | reaching our destination?” said Nicholl.~“Let us act as
139 IX | diverted from our route,” said Michel; “but why?”~“I very
140 IX | asked Nicholl.~“Too late?” said Barbicane.~“Yes,” continued
141 IX | well, then, Barbicane,” said Michel, “do you wish to
142 IX | I ask but one thing,” said Michel; “that we may pass
143 IX | crossed our path.”~“What?” said Michel Ardan.~“What do you
144 IX | exclaimed Nicholl.~“I mean,” said Barbicane in a decided tone, “
145 IX | brush us as it passed,” said Michel.~“What does that
146 X | away from it.”~This was said in a tone which quenched
147 XI | Cyrano de Bergerac. “Only,” said he, “it is no longer the
148 XII | observers.~“My friends,” said the president, in a serious
149 XII | our observations!”~This said, work was begun with great
150 XII | craters.~“There exist,” said Barbicane, “several kinds
151 XII | What splendid radiation!” said Michel. “One could hardly
152 XII | terrestrial observers.~“But why,” said Nicholl, “should not these
153 XII | height we are at, resembles?” said Michel.~“No,” replied Nicholl.~“
154 XII | by one.”~“Do be serious,” said Barbicane.~“Well, let us
155 XII | Selenites are not fools,” said Michel.~“A singular idea,”
156 XII | less than on the earth?” said Michel.~“But if the Selenites
157 XIII | They are not furrows,” said Barbicane; “they are rifts.”~“
158 XIII | with Julius Schmidt.~“Why,” said he, “should not these unaccountable
159 XIII | your vegetation, then?” said Barbicane.~“I like,” retorted
160 XIII | the mineral.~“Ah, indeed!” said Michel Ardan, a little out
161 XIV | let us accuse the sun,” said Nicholl, “it is not his
162 XIV | phenomenon.~“Curious indeed,” said they; “for, if each hemisphere
163 XIV | turn!”~“Nicely worded!” said Michel, “slightly academical
164 XIV | the moon is new.”~“But,” said Nicholl, “that advantage
165 XIV | understand.”~“Thank you,” said Michel.~“Indeed,” continued
166 XIV | Barbicane.~“One moment,” said Michel, interrupting his
167 XIV | Get along with you,” said Barbicane, smiling.~“On
168 XIV | smiling.~“On the contrary,” said Michel, imitating the tone
169 XIV | little less.”~“Very well said!” exclaimed Barbicane. “
170 XIV | point upon the sun.~“So,” said Nicholl, “there is a hemisphere,
171 XIV | would be a consideration,” said Michel.~Breakfast over,
172 XIV | In any case it is cold,” said Michel. “See! the steam
173 XIV | prepare a thermometer,” said Barbicane.~We may imagine
174 XIV | part of the instrument, and said:~“A hundred and forty degrees
175 XV | cannot estimate.”~“Yes,” said Nicholl, “it will follow
176 XV | of the sides.”~“Ah! ah!” said Michel, in a satisfied tone.~“
177 XV | nowhere?”~“Evidently,” said Barbicane, “they are open
178 XV | the full.”~“Certainly,” said Nicholl, “that circumstance
179 XV | magnificently lit.”~“Well said, Nicholl,” replied Michel
180 XV | a volcano?”~“But, then,” said Michel Ardan, “in order
181 XVII | its usual quantity.~“Ah!” said Nicholl, “these rays of
182 XVII | mouth of hell.~“Newton,” said Barbicane, “is the most
183 XVII | Terrestrial volcanoes,” said Barbicane, “are but mole-hills
184 XVIII| of these rays.”~“Indeed?” said Barbicane.~“Indeed,” continued
185 XVIII| like a lunar stomach-ache.” said Michel Ardan.~“Besides,”
186 XVIII| think that we can answer,” said Barbicane; “but according
187 XVIII| replied Michel.~“Just so,” said Barbicane, “which for us
188 XVIII| we may form our opinion?” said Michel.~“Yes,” replied Nicholl.~“
189 XVIII| December may be seen.~“Now,” said Nicholl, “let us attack
190 XVIII| older than the earth?”~“No!” said Barbicane decidedly, “but
191 XVIII| habitable.”~“I believe it,” said Nicholl.~“Then,” continued
192 XVIII| necessarily be inhabited.”~“But,” said Nicholl, “many phenomena
193 XVIII| poles they last six months,” said Michel.~“An argument of
194 XVIII| astonish you.”~“Astonish us?” said Michel Ardan.~“I firmly
195 XVIII| speculations are too high,” said he; “problems utterly insoluble.
196 XIX | revolution not at all consoling,” said Michel, “to pass to the
197 XIX | There is nothing to answer,” said Nicholl.~“Is there nothing
198 XIX | that?”~“No recrimination,” said Michel. “I do not complain,
199 XIX | What would you throw out?” said Nicholl. “We have no ballast
200 XIX | Neither slower nor quicker,” said Barbicane, wishing to make
201 XIX | in our rockets.”~“Done!” said Nicholl.~“We have not used
202 XIX | not used this force yet,” said Barbicane, “it is true,
203 XIX | the lunar disc.”~“Bravo!” said Michel. “What we did not
204 XIX | Very well reasoned,” said Nicholl.~“Let us wait patiently,”
205 XIX | nothing else to be done,” said Nicholl, “I make a proposition.”~“
206 XIX | since we closed our eyes,” said Nicholl. “Some hours of
207 XIX | has a good deal of sense,” said Barbicane; “presently I
208 XIX | s baritone.~“Certainly,” said Michel Ardan, finding himself
209 XIX | Five minutes to one,” said Nicholl.~“All is ready,”
210 XIX | flame of the gas.~“Wait!” said Barbicane, holding his chronometer
211 XIX | touch it.~“One o’clock,” said Barbicane.~Michel Ardan
212 XIX | Ardan, at length.~“No,” said Nicholl, “since the bottom
213 XIX | contracted.~“We are falling!” said he.~“Ah!” cried Michel Ardan, “
214 XIX | per hour.~“We are lost!” said Michel coolly.~“Very well!
215 XX | is a great depression,” said Captain Blomsberry. “In
216 XX | apparatus is very ingenious,” said Captain Blomsberry; “it
217 XX | notebook.~“Well, Bronsfield,” said the captain, “I will take
218 XX | have been gone ten days,” said Lieutenant Bronsfield at
219 XX | me so, my young friend,” said Lieutenant Bronsfield, smiling.~“
220 XX | Beg pardon, lieutenant,” said the midshipman, “but cannot
221 XX | their disposal.~“Evidently,” said one of the officers; “but
222 XXI | the young midshipman had said, and every one had understood
223 XXI | their fate.~“They are dead!” said one.~“They are alive!” said
224 XXI | said one.~“They are alive!” said another; “the crater is
225 XXI | fasten the end to a buoy,” said he, “and that buoy will
226 XXI | and uttered a cry.~“What!” said J. T. Maston.~“The projectile!”~“
227 XXI | orifice without hurt.~“Ah!” said he, “if I had broken the
228 XXII | before midnight.~“To-morrow,” said J. T. Maston, as he set
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