Join Host Bree Carlile as she reads the forty-sixth chapter of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
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Today we will be concluding 20,000 leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne chapter.
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23 conclusion this ends the voyage under the seas.
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What passed during that night, how the boat escaped from the eddies of the maelstrom, how Ned land conceal, and myself ever came out of the gulf, I cannot tell.
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But when I returned to consciousness, I was lying in a fisherman's hut on the Loffadin Isles.
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My two companions, safe and sound, were near me, holding hands.
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We embraced each other heartily.
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At that moment we could not think of returning to France.
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The means of communication between the north of Norway and the south are rare, and I'm therefore obliged to wait for the steamboat running monthly from Cape north.
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And among the worthy people who have so kindly received us, I revise my record of these adventures once more.
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Not a fact has been omitted, not a detail exaggerated.
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It is a faithful narrative of this incredible expedition in an element inaccessible to man, but to which progress will one day open a road.
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Shall I be believed?
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I do not know, and it matters little.
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After all.
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What I now affirm is that I have a right to speak of these seas under which in less than ten months, I have crossed 20,000 leagues in that submarine tour of the world which has revealed so many wonders.
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But what has become of the nautilus?
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Did it resist the pressure of the maelstrom?
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Does Captain Nemo still live?
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And does he still follow under the ocean those frightful retaliations?
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Or did he stop after the last hecatome?
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Will the waves one day carry to him this manuscript containing the history of his life?
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Shall I ever know the name of this man?
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Will the missing vessel tell us by its nationality that of Captain Nemo?
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I hope so.
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And I also hope that his powerful vessel has conquered the sea at its most terrible gulf, and that the nautilus has survived where so many other vessels have been lost.
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If it be so, if Captain Nemo still inhabits the ocean, his adopted country, may hatred be appeased in that savage heart.
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May the contemplation of so many wonders extinguish forever the spirit of vengeance.
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May the judge disappear and the philosopher continue the peaceful exploration of the sea.
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If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime.
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Have I not understood it myself?
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Have I not lived ten months of this unnatural life?
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And of the question asked by ecclesiastes 3000 years ago, that which is far off and exceeding deep?
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Who can find it out?
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Two men alone of all now living, have the right to give an answer.
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Captain Nemo and myself thank you for joining bite at a time books today.
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Again, my name is Brie Carlyle, and I hope you join us tomorrow when we read the first bite of Pride and prejudice.
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Taking chapter by chapter, one at a time, you any adventures and mountains we can climb take it word for word, line by line, one bite at a time, close.
