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Today we'll be continuing 20,000 leagues under the sea by Jules Verne chapter nine.
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Ned Land's tempers how long we slept I do not know, but our sleep.
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Must have lasted long, for it rested.
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Us completely from our fatigues.
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I woke first.
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My companions had not moved and were still stretched in their corner.
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Hardly roused from my somewhat hard couch, I felt my brain freed, my mind clear.
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I then began an attentive examination of our cell.
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Nothing was changed.
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Inside the prison was still a prison.
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The prisoners prisoners.
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However, the steward during our sleep, had cleared the table.
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I breathed with difficulty.
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The heavy air seemed to oppress my lungs.
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Although the cell was large, we had evidently consumed a great part of the.
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Oxygen that it contained.
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Indeed, each man consumes in 1 hour.
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The oxygen contained in more than 176.
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Pints of air, and this air, charged.
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As then with a nearly equal quantity.
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Of carbonic acid, becomes unbreathable.
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It became necessary to renew the atmosphere of our prison, and no doubt the hole in the submarine boat that gave.
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Rise to a question in my mind.
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How would the commander of this floating dwelling place proceed.
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Would he obtain air by chemical means.
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In getting by heat the oxygen contained.
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In chlorate of potash, and in absorbing carbonic acid by caustic potash?
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Or a more convenient, economical, and consequently more probable alternative?
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Would he be satisfied to rise and.
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Take breath at the surface of the.
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Water like a cetacean, and so renew for 24 hours the atmospheric provision?
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In fact, I was already obliged to.
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Increase my respirations, to eke out of.
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This cell the little oxygen it contained, when suddenly I was refreshed by a current of pure air and perfumed with saline emanations.
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It was an invigorating sea breeze charged with iodine.
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I opened my mouth wide, and my lungs saturated themselves with fresh particles.
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At the same time I felt the boat rolling.
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The iron plated monster had evidently just risen to the surface of the ocean.
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To breathe after the fashion of whales.
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I found out from that the mode.
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Of ventilating the boat.
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When I had inhaled this air freely, I sought the conduit pipe, which conveyed to us the beneficial whiff, and I was not long in finding it.
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Above the door was a ventilator, through which volumes of fresh air renewed the.
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Impoverished atmosphere of the cell.
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I was making my observations when Ned and conceal awoke.
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Almost at the same time, under the.
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Influence of this reviving air.
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They rubbed their eyes, stretched themselves, and.
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Were on their feet in an instant.
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Did master sleep well?
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Asked conceal, with his usual politeness.
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Very well, my brave boy.
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And you, Mr.
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Land?
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Soundly, professor, but I don't know if.
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I'm right or not.
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There seems to be a sea breeze.
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A sea man cannot be mistaken.
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And I told the Canadian all that.
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Had passed during his sleep.
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Good, said he.
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That accounts for those roarings we heard.
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When the supposed narwhal sighted the Abraham Lincoln.
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Quite so, Masterland.
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It was taking breath only, Mr.
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Aranax.
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I have no idea what o'clock it.
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Is, unless it is dinner time.
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Dinner time, my good fellow, say rather.
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Breakfast time, for we certainly have begun another day.
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So, said conceal.
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We have slept 24 hours.
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That is my opinion.
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I will not contradict you, replied Ned.
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Land, but dinner or breakfast, the steward will be welcome, whichever he brings.
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Master land, we must conform to the rules on board, and I suppose our appetites are in advance of the dinner hour.
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That is just like you, friend.
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Conceal, said Ned impatiently.
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You are never out of temper, always calm.
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You would return thanks before grace and die of hunger rather than complain.
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Time was getting on, and we were fearfully hungry.
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And this time the steward did not appear.
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It was rather long to leave us, if they really had good intentions towards us.
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Ned land, tormented by the cravings of.
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Hunger, got still more angry.
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And notwithstanding its promise, I dreaded an explosion.
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When he found himself with one of the crew.
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For 2 hours more, Ned Land's temper increased.
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He cried.
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He shouted, but in vain.
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The vaults were deaf.
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There was no sound to be heard in the boat.
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All was still his death.
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It did not move, for I should.
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Have felt the trembling motion of the hole.
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Under the influence of the screw, plunged in the depths of the waters.
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It belonged no longer to earth.
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The silence was dreadful.
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I felt terrified.
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Kinseal was calm.
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Ned land roared.
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Just then, a noise was heard outside.
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Steps sounded on the metal flags.
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The locks were turned.
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The door opened, and the steward appeared.
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Before I could rush forward to stop him, the Canadian had thrown him down and held him by the throat.
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The steward was choking under the grip.
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Of his powerful hand.
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Conceal was already trying to unclasp the harpooner's hand from his half suffocated victim.
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And I was going to fly to the rescue when suddenly I was nailed to the spot by hearing these words in French.
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Be quiet, master land.
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And you, professor, will you be so.
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Good as to listen to me?
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