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Updated: May 22, 2025
In the meanwhile his companions watched the vault of space through the lower port-light. There was nothing fresh to signalise. When Michel Ardan came down again he approached the lateral port-light, and suddenly uttered an exclamation of surprise. "What is the matter now?" asked Barbicane.
Underneath the knot was chalked "Pull." I pulled. The door opened on a mass of enclosed night. From the street it was hard to see what was there, so I went inside. What was there might have been a cavern narrow, obscure, and dangerous with dim obstructions. Some of the shadows were darker than others, because the cave ended, far-off, on a port-light, a small square of day framed in black.
Michel Ardan talked sometimes to Barbicane, who did not answer much, to Nicholl, who did not hear, and to Diana, who did not understand his theories, and lastly to himself, making questions and answers, going and coming, occupying himself with a thousand details, sometimes leaning over the lower port-light, sometimes roosting in the heights of the projectile, singing all the time.
All hearts stopped beating. Eyes no longer performed their office. One of the port-lights of the projectile was opened. Some pieces of glass remaining in the frame proved that it had been broken. This port-light was situated actually five feet above water. A boat drew alongside that of J.T. Maston. He rushed to the broken window.
"You're a good sailor, sir!" bawled the captain as he pitched down out of sight. "Yes, thank Heaven!" shouted Ishmael, flying up. Then came a tremendous lurch of the ship. "Oh, I must see that wave!" cried the captain, imprudently climbing up to look out from the port-light above him.
Faces looked down from her rail, faces from the shadow of the hurricane' deck; a line of faces and all looking down upon the little Island tug that had fallen alongside and drifted close under the liner's flank, a short way abaft her red port-light. A murmur of talk went with the faces, as it were a stream rippling by, and mingled with the splash of water pouring over-side from the pumps.
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