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1 II, I | astronomer was none other than Professor Palmyrin Rosette, Servadac’
2 II, I | himself, to lead the poor professor a life of perpetual torment.
3 II, I | Servadac left the Lycee, Professor Rosette had thrown up all
4 II, I | on the aquiline nose. The professor heaved a long sigh of relief,
5 II, I | ground when they found that Professor Palmyrin Rosette had associated
6 II, I | companions that, although the professor was always eccentric, and
7 II, II | Zoof would not leave the professor’s bedside. He had constituted
8 II, II | the western horizon the professor was still sound asleep;
9 II, II | calling, “Joseph! Joseph!”~The professor did not open his eyes, and
10 II, II | Servadac approached the professor in order to assist him in
11 II, II | recognize your quondam pupil, professor?” he asked.~“Ah, yes, yes;
12 II, II | much apparent relish, the professor got out of bed, walked into
13 II, II | that?” asked the startled professor; and he frowned, and made
14 II, II | Europe?” shouted the professor, springing from his seat
15 II, II | most tenaciously to the professor’s chair, and again and again
16 II, II | seem here,” continued the professor, “to be very ignorant of
17 II, II | certain degree,” continued the professor. “It is quite true that
18 II, II | Gallia itself!”~And the professor gazed around him with a
19 II, III | CHAPTER III~THE PROFESSOR’S EXPERIENCES~“Yes, my comet!”
20 II, III | my comet!” repeated the professor, and from time to time he
21 II, III | about the future. Could the professor throw any light upon that?
22 II, III | resident on your comet, Mr. Professor, I beg to acknowledge your
23 II, III | command of the Dobryna.”~The professor bowed again in frigid dignity.~“
24 II, III | eagerly exclaimed the professor.~“Yes, entirely round it,”
25 II, III | little Nina, on whom the professor, evidently no lover of children,
26 II, III | started yet.”~Seeing that the professor was inclined to get angry,
27 II, III | Furious at the slight, the professor resolved to set to work
28 II, III | this particular case the professor was right in adopting the
29 II, III | can be established.~But Professor Rosette did not content
30 II, III | the narrative which the professor gave with sundry repetitions
31 II, III | now, gentlemen,” added the professor, “I must tell you something
32 II, III | nothing to regret.”~And as the professor spoke, he seemed to kindle
33 II, III | a feather in a cap.”~The professor looked angry, and Servadac
34 II, III | shock, sir,” answered the professor, “I had conclusively demonstrated
35 II, III | unaltered,” continued the professor, “the result of the collision
36 II, III | have originated with you.”~Professor Rosette drew himself up
37 II, III | interrupted him by asking the professor how he accounted for the
38 II, III | right!” replied the snappish professor. Soon, however, recovering
39 II, III | eagerness, implored the professor to tell him when they would
40 II, III | great hurry?” asked the professor coolly.~The Jew was about
41 II, III | gallery.~“Yes,” continued the professor, “Gallia is a periodic comet,
42 II, III | exceedingly well as we are.” The professor stamped his foot upon the
43 II, IV | to the fulfillment of the professor’s prediction of an ultimate
44 II, IV | at his disposal; but the professor resolutely declined to occupy
45 II, IV | what he had heard from the professor he could not believe that
46 II, IV | had been drawn out by the professor. The curve was divided into
47 II, IV | look plainer, and if the professor’s calculations were correct (
48 II, IV | Just so,” replied the professor.~“Then we have already passed
49 II, IV | use your eyes?” said the professor, testily. “If you will look
50 II, IV | laughing at?” demanded the professor, turning round upon him
51 II, IV | manner of means, my dear professor, let us be logical.”~“Well,
52 II, IV | listen to me,” resumed the professor, stiffly. “I presume you
53 II, IV | make a month?” asked the professor.~“I suppose sixty or sixty-two,
54 II, IV | No doubt you are right, professor,” said Count Timascheff; “
55 II, IV | use any other,” was the professor’s bluff reply.~After pondering
56 II, IV | March.”~“Yes,” said the professor, “to-day is the 26th of
57 II, IV | with a vengeance!”~The old professor had an undefined consciousness
58 II, IV | calendar was left to the professor’s sole use, and the colony
59 II, IV | intentionally blank] and by the professor’s tables Gallia during the
60 II, IV | blustering, nervous, little professor, when some sudden fancy
61 II, IV | June (old calendar) the professor burst like a cannon-ball
62 II, IV | may I ask,” continued the professor, quite unaware of his previous
63 II, IV | 400 miles.”~“Ah!” said the professor, more than half speaking
64 II, IV | any difficulty?” asked the professor, fiercely. “I have been
65 II, IV | off his old grudge.~The professor looked at him, but did not
66 II, IV | Captain Servadac,” said the professor, “take your pen again, and
67 II, IV | Quick, quick!” cried the professor, impatiently; “surely you
68 II, IV | comet!” said Ben Zoof.~The professor scowled at him, and was
69 II, IV | You rascal!” roared the professor, and clenched his hand in
70 II, IV | The truth was that the professor was just as sensitive about
71 II, IV | might not have arisen.~When Professor Rosette’s equanimity had
72 II, IV | moment at all,” replied the professor; “the problem is independent
73 II, V | misgivings to themselves; the professor was of a temper far too
74 II, V | punctual fulfillment of the professor’s appointment, a note was
75 II, V | felt pledged to render the professor any aid they could in the
76 II, V | entered the hall, caught the professor’s last sentence, and without
77 II, V | A frown came over the professor’s countenance. Servadac
78 II, V | interrupt me,” said the professor, authoritatively, as if
79 II, V | demurely bowed their heads.~The professor resumed. “Upon a steelyard,
80 II, V | said the orderly.~The professor stamped with vexation.~“
81 II, V | approbation. Before they started, Professor Rosette requested that one
82 II, V | don’t mean,” exclaimed the professor, again going off into a
83 II, V | in trying,” answered the professor, as he hustled with hasty
84 II, V | truly ludicrous. The little professor, most comical of all, resembled
85 II, V | hope not!” exclaimed the professor; “where would be the use
86 II, V | Fortunately for us, however, professor,” said the lieutenant, with
87 II, VI | steelyard?”~“Yes!” echoed the professor, impatiently; “a steelyard.”~“
88 II, VI | for one day,” added the professor.~The Jew stammered again,
89 II, VI | than that!” cried out the professor, triumphantly; “we are going
90 II, VI | the weight of the article. Professor Rosette was manifestly right
91 II, VI | once it occurred to the professor that the steelyard would
92 II, VI | ladder, scrambled the little professor, and before the Jew was
93 II, VI | have them!” shouted the professor.~“You shall kill me first!”
94 II, VI | but I must!” persisted the professor again.~It was manifestly
95 II, VI | Servadac to interfere. “My dear professor,” he said, smiling, “allow
96 II, VI | have more than that,” the professor continued. “I want ten two-franc
97 II, VI | say it is,” answered the professor.~“Count, may I ask you,”
98 II, VI | Jew for this loan to the professor?”~“Loan!” cried the Jew, “
99 II, VI | stroke of business.~The professor pocketed his French coins
100 II, VII | we can proceed,” said the professor. “May I request that this
101 II, VII | according to their value.~The professor commenced. “Since none of
102 II, VII | well acquainted with the professor’s temper to make any attempt
103 II, VII | had already divined the professor’s meaning. They knew that
104 II, VII | accordingly guessed that Professor Rosette had conceived the
105 II, VII | decimeter required by the professor.~The next business was to
106 II, VII | Now, gentlemen,” said Professor Rosette, “we are in a position
107 II, VII | Well, then,” continued the professor, “keep it in mind for a
108 II, VII | suppose?”~As he spoke the professor designedly kept his eyes
109 II, VII | of Ben Zoof’s face, the professor went on. “And now, gentlemen,
110 II, VII | ascertained the density.”~The professor took up the cube of rock. “
111 II, VII | who can understand.”~The professor took the cube, and, on attaching
112 II, VII | terrestrial attraction.”~The professor could not refrain from exhibiting
113 II, VII | Well, then,” said the professor, “I must remind you. Taking
114 II, VII | added, looking slyly at the professor.~“Idiot!” exclaimed Rosette. “
115 II, VII | to get the last word, the professor was about to retire, when
116 II, VII | speaking very slowly, the professor said: “It contains 70 per
117 II, VII | was entirely lost upon the professor, who had left the hall with
118 II, VIII| be confessed that all the professor’s calculations had comparatively
119 II, VIII| altogether disastrous? The professor, it is true, in his estimate
120 II, VIII| means sympathized with the professor’s sentiments, and the following
121 II, VIII| astronomical enthusiasm of the professor could quite allay the general
122 II, VIII| being asked, “What does the professor really think?”~“Our friend
123 II, VIII| think?”~“Our friend the professor,” said Servadac, “is not
124 II, VIII| telescope which the old professor keeps pointed up at yonder
125 II, VIII| agency. It would not be Professor Rosette’s lot to enlighten
126 II, VIII| to the observatory. The professor was in the worst of tempers.~
127 II, IX | Servadac, convinced by the professor’s ill humor that the danger
128 II, X | untraversed; but if the professor’s calculations were correct—
129 II, X | very well for a man like Professor Rosette, absorbed in astronomical
130 II, XI | calculated? What our friend the professor has done here, has been
131 II, XI | debate that night whether the professor should be invited to join
132 II, XI | requesting the pleasure of Professor Rosette’s company at the
133 II, XI | no answer except that the professor had told him that “to-day
134 II, XI | fairly have startled the professor in the silence of his observatory.~
135 II, XII | retreat.~Here they found the professor, who, startled by the sudden
136 II, XII | Restless and agitated, Professor Rosette, if he took any
137 II, XII | incredible briskness.~Although Professor Rosette yielded to the pressure
138 II, XIII| beginning of February, when the professor brought his complaint to
139 II, XIII| which he asked, that the professor was put into such a manifest
140 II, XIII| would you allow me, my dear professor, to suggest that you should
141 II, XIII| revision.”~“Sir,” said the professor, bridling up, “I want no
142 II, XIII| possibly have made. The professor glared at him fiercely.~“
143 II, XIII| never mind,” replied the professor, quickly appeased; “only
144 II, XIII| Servadac.~“Very good,” said the professor. “No immediate hurry; an
145 II, XIII| without reference to the professor, to calculate the rate of
146 II, XIII| spoke again. “I suppose Professor Rosette couldn’t make his
147 II, XIV | CHAPTER XIV~THE PROFESSOR PERPLEXED~Another month
148 II, XIV | seriously disturbing the professor’s equanimity. Not only would
149 II, XIV | feeling of delight at the professor’s manifest discomfiture,
150 II, XIV | ill-humor on the part of the professor occasioned no little anxiety.
151 II, XIV | was no cessation of the professor’s discomposure. He was the
152 II, XIV | Assuredly, if the poor professor had had any flesh to lose
153 II, XIV | of the cavern, heard the professor inside utter a loud cry.
154 II, XIV | Something has happened to the professor,” he said; “he is rushing
155 II, XIV | hurried off to meet the professor.~But, however great was
156 II, XIV | destined to be gratified. The professor kept muttering in incoherent
157 II, XIV | immediate conclusion that the professor was contemplating borrowing
158 II, XIV | money to him; but here was a professor, a mere man of science,
159 II, XIV | you cannot,” agreed the professor.~“And don’t you think the
160 II, XIV | again.~“Certainly,” the professor assented. “Coffee is nutritious;
161 II, XIV | And as the Jew spoke, the professor fancied he could detect
162 II, XIV | Yes, I will buy.”~The professor, who had been looking on
163 II, XIV | voice that confirmed the professor’s suspicions.~“There is
164 II, XIV | were not uttered before the professor, fierce as a tiger, had
165 II, XIV | rascal! thief! villain!” the professor reiterated, and continued
166 II, XIV | captain.~As soon as the professor had recovered his breath,
167 II, XIV | of any interruption, the professor continued, “False weights!
168 II, XIV | Yes, completely,” said the professor.~“Gallia out of place?”
169 II, XV | DISAPPOINTMENT~It was as the professor had said. From the day that
170 II, XV | ought to have been.~The professor, however, had ascertained
171 II, XVI | allowed to be present, and Professor Rosette had been asked to
172 II, XVI | In fifty-one days, if Professor Rosette has made no error
173 II, XVI | said the captain; “even Professor Rosette, with all his learning,
174 II, XVI | our fellow-creatures.”~“Professor Rosette, I suppose,” Ben
175 II, XVI | extracting the secret from the professor.~To Lieutenant Procope himself
176 II, XVI | Isaac Hakkabut and the professor were the only two members
177 II, XVI | as time passed on, the professor seemed to become more and
178 II, XVI | approaching contact, but the professor seemed to grow more obstinate
179 II, XVI | rocks was the unfortunate professor, who was scrambling down
180 II, XVII| that they should have the professor talking about the 238th
181 II, XVII| moment of collision.~But the professor was in the worst of tempers.
182 II, XVII| contact with the earth, the professor would have been quite unable
183 II, XVII| to the same effect. The professor, by way of retaliation,
184 II, XVII| himself the full force of the professor’s wrath.~Rosette’s language
185 II, XVII| to the earth?” asked the professor, with a look of withering
186 II, XVII| you this?” again said the professor, with a sneer.~“Everybody.
187 II, XVII| uncontrollable.~“Not I,” said the professor.~“ Hold your tongue!” repeated
188 II, XVII| threatening movement towards the professor.~“Touch me if you dare!”
189 II, XVII| the earth,” repeated the professor, with decision.~“Trash!”
190 II, XVII| January.”~“Thanks, my dear professor—many thanks. You have given
191 II, XVII| followed his master. The professor, completely nonplussed,
192 II, XVII| the time predicted by the professor as the instant of collision.
193 II, XVII| carrier-pigeon that had brought the professor’s message to the Hive. Servadac
194 II, XIX | part, nothing could induce Professor Rosette to conceal his experiences.
195 II, XIX | the representations of the professor; an unimportant minority
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