Jules Verne For Children: 16 Incredible Tales of Mystery, Courage & Adventure (Illustrated Edition). Jules Verne
day being fairly driven in a corner by the intractable Major, he ended by confiding to him, under the seal of secrecy, a certain peculiarity which would facilitate his apprehension should the police ever be on his track.
“Bah!” said the Major.
“It is really as I tell you,” replied Paganel.
“What does it matter, my worthy friend?”
“Do you think so, Major?”
“On the contrary, it only makes you more uncommon. It adds to your personal merits. It is the very thing to make you the nonpareil husband that Arabella dreams about.”
And the Major with imperturbable gravity left Paganel in a state of the utmost disquietude.
A short conversation ensued between McNabbs and Miss Arabella. A fortnight afterwards, the marriage was celebrated in grand style in the chapel of Malcolm Castle. Paganel looked magnificent, but closely buttoned up, and Miss Arabella was arrayed in splendor.
And this secret of the geographer would have been forever buried in oblivion, if the Major had not mentioned it to Glenarvan, and he could not hide it from Lady Helena, who gave a hint to Mrs. Mangles. To make a long story short, it got in the end to M. Olbinett’s ears, and soon became noised abroad.
Jacques Paganel, during his three days’ captivity among the Maories, had been tattooed from the feet to the shoulders, and he bore on his chest a heraldic kiwi with outspread wings, which was biting at his heart.
This was the only adventure of his grand voyage that Paganel could never get over, and he always bore a grudge to New Zealand on account of it. It was for this reason too, that, notwithstanding solicitation and regrets, he never would return to France. He dreaded lest he should expose the whole Geographical Society in his person to the jests of caricaturists and low newspapers, by their secretary coming back tattooed.
The return of the captain to Scotland was a national event, and Harry Grant was soon the most popular man in old Caledonia. His son Robert became a sailor like himself and Captain Mangles, and under the patronage of Lord Glenarvan they resumed the project of founding a Scotch colony in the Southern Seas.
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
CHAPTER I. The Professor And His Family
CHAPTER II. A Mystery To Be Solved At Any Price
CHAPTER III. The Runic Writing Exercises The Professor
CHAPTER IV. The Enemy To Be Starved Into Submission
CHAPTER V. Famine, Then Victory, Followed By Dismay
CHAPTER VI. Exciting Discussions About An Unparalleled Enterprise
CHAPTER VII. A Woman’s Courage
CHAPTER VIII. Serious Preparations For Vertical Descent
CHAPTER IX. Iceland! But What Next?
CHAPTER X. Interesting Conversations With Icelandic Savants
CHAPTER XI. A Guide Found To The Centre Of The Earth
CHAPTER XIII. Hospitality Under The Arctic Circle
CHAPTER XIV. But Arctics Can Be Inhospitable, Too
CHAPTER XVI. Boldly Down The Crater
CHAPTER XVII. Vertical Descent
CHAPTER XVIII. The Wonders Of Terrestrial Depths
CHAPTER XIX. Geological Studies In Situ
CHAPTER XX. The First Signs Of Distress
CHAPTER XXI. Compassion Fuses The Professor’s Heart
CHAPTER XXII. Total Failure Of Water
CHAPTER XXIII. Water Discovered
CHAPTER XXIV. Well Said, Old Mole! Canst Thou Work I’ The Ground So Fast?
CHAPTER XXVI. The Worst Peril Of All
CHAPTER XXVII. Lost In The Bowels Of The Earth
CHAPTER XXVIII. The Rescue In The Whispering Gallery
CHAPTER XXIX. Thalatta! Thalatta!
CHAPTER XXX. A New Mare Internum
CHAPTER XXXI. Preparations For A Voyage Of Discovery
CHAPTER XXXII. Wonders Of The Deep
CHAPTER XXXIII. A Battle Of Monsters
CHAPTER XXXIV. The Great Geyser
CHAPTER XXXV. An Electric Storm
CHAPTER XXXVI. Calm Philosophic Discussions
CHAPTER XXXVII. The Liedenbrock Museum Of Geology