Chapter

 1 3 |       his charming home, which stood beneath the shades of some
 2 3 |       my curiosity. And when I stood again before Mr. Ward, shamed
 3 6 |   while! Let us wait!”~Matters stood thus when, on the morning
 4 7 |    upon me in the street. They stood constantly, perhaps a hundred
 5 12|     beyond all human power.~We stood there, Wells and I, completely
 6 12|       of the quay where we had stood.~Leaning forward, Wells
 7 12|      the ravine to the quay; I stood on the very spot where the
 8 14|     the right, groups of trees stood out here and there. In the
 9 14|      point of this latter isle stood once that “Terrapin Tower”
10 15| air-ship.~And now the “Terror” stood motionless at the bottom
11 15|       them beyond our reach?~I stood there, motionless; my eyes
12 15|         I turned. The inventor stood by my side, and pausing
13 16|   Robur the Conqueror, who now stood before me, who revealed
14 16|   remarkable personage who now stood before me. Apparently he
15 17|      intend to do with me?”~We stood face to face scarce two
16 18|    does not the word seem just—stood before her, I feared for