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The box of goods in Verne's MYSTERIOUS ISLAND is another case in point: there was no gusto and no glamour about that; it might have come from a shop.
The catalogue, a carefully chosen list of books for young readers, with stars placed against those specially recommended, includes, besides books mentioned in other letters, the Boy's Froissart and King Arthur, Miss Tuckey's Joan of Arc, Le Liefde's Great Dutch Admirals, Eggleston's Famous American Indians, Bryan's History of the United States, Verne's Exploration of the World, Du Chaillu's books, What Mr.
Barbara Verne's eyes gazed softly at him out of the page, her gentle voice echoed in his ears, and the simple, straight-forward words of thanks that she had spoken thrust out of his mind the words of the great philosopher, as the youth endeavored to read them. He was sitting, in his dressing gown, with his slippered feet resting upon a stool.
Arnold reckoned without her host. She met with more opposition than she expected, and the lesson she yet had to learn cost her a bitter experience! Mrs. Verne's vascillating nature was a source of much annoyance to her first-born. "It is so provoking," murmured Mrs. Arnold, as she noted the infatuation her mother possessed for a certain baronet of a distinguished Yorkshire family.
The box of goods in Verne's "Mysterious Island" is another case in point: there was no gusto and no glamour about that; it might have come from a shop.
Such were the lawyer's remarks as he sat alone in his office with a heavy load off his mind. He had just returned from witnessing Marguerite Verne's departure, and he felt calm and content. Mr. Verne had accompanied the young man to his door and left with many kind invitations for "Sunnybank."
Verne, his eye resting with fond admiration upon his daughter. Children are oftentimes de trop, and Charlie Verne proved no exception. "Papa, I was one day with Madge, and she had two big red spots on her cheeks as big peonies." The precocious youth was on the eve of explanation, when Mrs. Verne's "Children should be seen and not heard" put an end to the subject.
It is certain, however, that everyone Ministers, generals, colonists, and intelligence officers concurred in making a most remarkable miscalculation. It reminds me of Jules Verne's story of the men who planned to shift the axis of the earth by the discharge of a great cannon. Everything was arranged. The calculations were exact to the most minute fraction.
And yet the inland sea sounds natural enough. We know, too, that there are such things as underground rivers, outside of Jules Verne's yarns. But those animals, or reptiles, which?" "Both, I believe," answered Bruno, with a subdued laugh. "That's all right, old man. I never was worth a continental when it came to such things.
Moses Spriggins drew Miss Marguerite's Verne's attention to his legal proceedings that Phillip Lawson should be turning over certain facts in his memory in order to elucidate some important problems as regards his relation to this fair being.
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