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Here M'Nicholl laughed so loud that Ardan was seriously irritated. However, before he could say anything cutting enough to make the Captain mind his manners, Barbican had quickly resumed: "Dear friend, let the comets alone, I beg of you; the old astronomers fled to them on all occasions and made them explain every difficulty " "The comets were all used up long ago " interrupted M'Nicholl.
Then, you see, we shall receive news regularly from the earth, and we shall indeed be stupid if we hit upon no plan for communicating with our good friends here!" These words inspired such confidence, that Michel Ardan carried all the Gun Club with him in his enthusiasm.
"Not from such planets as Mercury, Venus or Mars anyhow, friend Michael," observed Barbican. "But the inhabitants of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune, if they bear the same proportion to their planet that we do ours, must certainly be regular Brobdignagians." "Let us keep severely away from all planets of the latter class then," said Ardan. "I never liked to play the part of Lilliputian myself.
Chance was therefore in the travellers' favour. If the velocity of the projectile were to be absolutely annihilated upon the neutral point, a given motion, however slight, towards the moon would determine its fall. "Five minutes to one," said Nicholl. "Everything is ready," answered Michel Ardan, directing his match towards the flame of the gas. "Wait!" said Barbicane, chronometer in hand.
At last it was accomplished, and the little bird flew joyfully away and disappeared. Nicholl lovingly watched its flight, when he heard these words pronounced by a voice full of emotion: "You are indeed a brave man." He turned. Michel Ardan was before him, repeating in a different tone: "And a kindhearted one!" "Michel Ardan!" cried the captain. "Why are you here?"
They gave themselves up for lost in the agony of terror that partially interrupted the ordinary functions of their brains, this was absolutely all they could do! Hardly three minutes had elapsed since Ardan had caught the first glimpse of it three ages of agony! Now it was on them! In a second in less than a second, the terrible fireball had burst like a shell!
But now the waters grew calm, and it was seen that drowning was not their doom. Then, as the waters withdrew from the plain, soldiers came to bind Nathos, Ailne, and Ardan, and to take them before the King. And Concobar commanded that they should be slain before his eyes. 'If such be our doom, then slay me first, said Ardan, 'for I am the youngest of Usna's sons.
"Don't you approve of my suggestion, Captain?" asked Barbican. "Certainly," was the hasty reply. "That is to say, absolutely. Seventeen minutes twenty-seven seconds!" "Mac isn't a human being at all!" cried Ardan, admiringly. "He is a repeating chronometer, horizontal escapement, London-made lever, capped, jewelled, "
"You are right, Barbicane," answered Captain Nicholl; "and besides, when we have reached the moon we shall have plenty of time during the long lunar nights to consider at leisure the globe that harbours men like us." "Men like us!" cried Michel Ardan. "But now they are not more like us than the Selenites. We are inhabitants of a new world peopled by us alone the projectile!
I say incontestably advisedly, for Nature never exhausts herself in producing useless things, and therefore a world, so wonderfully inhabitable, must of necessity have had inhabitants." "I like of necessity too," said Ardan, who could never keep still; "I always did, when I felt my arguments to be what you call a little shaky."
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