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Updated: June 26, 2025
"Did you hear the detonation, which must certainly have been formidable?" "No," answered Ardan, much surprised, "I certainly did not hear it." "And you, Barbicane?" "I did not either." "What do you make of that?" asked Nicholl. "What indeed!" murmured the president; "why did we not hear the detonation?" The three friends looked at one another rather disconcertedly.
"Keep her goin' it's her on'y chance!" Then the heavy pine whipsticks bent like bulrushes in the drivers' skilful hands, while a spray of dissevered hair, and sometimes a line of springing blood, followed each detonation the libretto being in keeping.
I had not finished my sentence when a terrible detonation roused the whole neighbourhood from its slumbers. Madame Guerard and I had been seated opposite each other. We found ourselves standing up close together in the middle of the room, terrified. My poor cook, her face quite white, came to me for safety. The detonations continued rather frequently.
But a still sadder reflection came into our minds at each detonation, the grand army must be rapidly hastening to dissolution when the material remaining exceeded our needs, and the number of men still left was so much short of that required to use it. On the 30th, the Emperor's headquarters were in a poor hovel which had neither doors nor windows.
Then he saw two pale spots of light, which seemed curiously high above the ground. "I'm shooting," he said, and in another moment the butt was into his shoulder. He felt the jar of it, but, as usual in such cases, he heard no detonation, though the pale flash from Gordon's rifle was almost in his eyes.
Thunder?" A long, low rumble made itself heard above the storm. It came again, and yet again. The gloom was lighted for a second by a sudden blaze. "What's that!" exclaimed Jim once more. Between the thunder-peals his ears had caught a single whip-like crack. A stunning crash followed a lurid glare, lighting up sky and sea. Again came the sharp detonation, but little louder than a fire-cracker.
Came a third detonation and, blinding in its intensity, a globe of fire burst almost beneath the window, five stories below. The partners, shaking and pale, retreated hastily. A swift, upward-rising shape swept over the courtyard and was gone one of the air-fleet now launched to meet the attackers.
To the sack, then! to the sack!" "To the sack!" repeated the rabble, with a furious hurrah. A discharge of crossbows and hackbuts against the front of the church followed. At this detonation, the peaceable inhabitants of the surrounding houses woke up; many windows were seen to open, and nightcaps and hands holding candles appeared at the casements. "Fire at the windows," shouted Clopin.
Another detonation, and then another, shaking the ground and reverberating, and sending up showers of stones and loose earth that came rattling down on to the canteen-roof, while the huddled, sprawling mass of human bodies shook and squirmed with terror. The droning of propellers could be plainly heard, then it grew weaker and weaker, until it passed away. One by one the men got up.
Jack crouched down to do a little thinking as well as listen to the exchange of compliments between the warring forces every loud detonation as a lump of coquina rock fell on the roof would be followed by its complement of rapid gunfire, just as though the man at bay was bound to keep up his side of the battle even if he had to create a shortage in his ammunition supply.
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