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I imagined the torrents of fire hurled back at every angle in the gallery, and the accumulation of intensely heated vapours in the midst of this confined channel. I only hope, thought I, that this so-called extinct volcano won't take a fancy in his old age to begin his sports again! I abstained from communicating these fears to Professor Liedenbrock. He would never have understood them at all.
"I remember that when I went to my husband, I likewise wanted every woman of my acquaintance to be married." Laura sighed deeply. "What is this poor withered body of mine now? It feels like an old volcano, cindery, with fire somewhere: a charming bride! My dear, if I live till my children make me a grandmother, I shall look on the love of men and women as a toy that I have played with.
But I can love you just as much, not to say more, if you are here in your own house in Old Chester, instead of being in my house in Philadelphia. Why, it would be like sitting on a volcano!" "I cannot stay in Old Chester any longer," she said; "dreadful things have happened, and " "What things? You said that before. Do explain these mysterious allusions."
Perhaps it is due to the wine grown on these scorching slopes. If geologists are right, we are sitting at this moment on the crater of a volcano " "Dear me! That might be rather awkward. I suppose this pumice is very light?" "Light as foam. But who can believe it? The bearers move within a few feet of us, and yet it resembles the most ponderous limestone or granite.
Still, his eyes could flash with fire like a volcano supposed to be extinct, and he endeavored, by dressing fashionably, to make up for the lack of youth that might strike a woman's eye.
Various computations which the writer has made indicate that an ordinary volcano, such as Ætna, in times of most intense explosion, may send forth in the form of steam one fourth of a cubic mile or more of water during each day of its discharge, and in a single great eruption may pour forth several times this quantity.
It even seemed to the reporter that this water, being slightly sulphurous, which was explained by the neighborhood of the volcano, had a more direct action on the healing. The suppuration was much less abundant, and thanks to the incessant care by which he was surrounded! Herbert returned to life, and his fever abated.
"But you wouldn't try experiments with a volcano?" "I would try any experiment with Ireland which it wants, and which I did not think dangerous," The Bradder said, and he seemed to be wholly occupied in trying to say as little as possible without appearing to be ashamed or afraid of his opinions. "So you are a Radical, but not a Home-Ruler.
Henri exclaimed. "Parbleu! Don't I know you to be a volcano?" "How did you manage the affair that fellow's ruin? It frightens me to realize that you can accomplish such things." The Count pushed his wife away. "What are you talking about?" he demanded. "Oh, very well! Carry it out if you wish," she said, with a careless shrug. "But you're not fooling me in the least.
The mountain had two summits: one comparatively broad and rugged, with a huge crater, and a number of smaller vents; and a second and higher one, nearest the bay, the ash-heap of the volcano proper, on which the vigia is erected, and whence our observations were made. This is a sugar-loaf in form, with steep sides, and at its summit scarcely affording standing-room for a dozen horsemen.
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