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THE PASSENGER OF THE ATLANTA |
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Such was the passenger of the Atlanta, always excitable, as if boiling under the action of some internal fire by the character of his physical organization. If ever two individuals offered a striking contrast to each other, these were certainly Michel Ardan and the Yankee Barbicane; both, moreover, being equally enterprising and daring, each in his own way. The scrutiny which the president of the Gun Club had instituted regarding this new rival was quickly interrupted by the shouts and hurrahs of the crowd. The cries became at last so uproarious, and the popular enthusiasm assumed so personal a form, that Michel Ardan, after having shaken hands some thousands of times, at the imminent risk of leaving his fingers behind him, was fain at last to make a bolt for his cabin. Barbicane followed him without uttering a word. "You are Barbicane, I suppose?" said Michel Ardan, in a tone of voice in which he would have addressed a friend of twenty years' standing. "Yes," replied the president of the Gun Club. "All right! how d'ye do, Barbicane? how are you getting on-- pretty well? that's right." "So," said Barbicane without further preliminary, "you are quite determined to go." "Quite decided." "Nothing will stop you?" "Nothing. Have you modified your projectile according to my telegram." "I waited for your arrival. But," asked Barbicane again, "have you carefully reflected?" "Reflected? have I any time to spare? I find an opportunity of making a tour in the moon, and I mean to profit by it. There is the whole gist of the matter." |
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