Ah!" I cried, springing up. "But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist upon doing it too. He would want to know all about it. Ropes could not hold him, such a determined geologist as he is! He would start, he would, in spite of everything and everybody, and he would take me with him, and we should never get back. No, never! never!" My over-excitement was beyond all description.


The Collected Works Of Jules Verne (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2013) - ISBN: 9781627938808


Ah! I cried, springing up. But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist upon doing it too. He would want to know all about it. Ropes...

Ah! I cried, springing up. But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist upon doing it too. He would want to know all about it. Ropes...

Ah! I cried, springing up. But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist upon doing it too. He would want to know all about it. Ropes...

Ah! I cried, springing up. But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist upon doing it too. He would want to know all about it. Ropes...