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His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes.
The quiet, the retirement of such a life would have answered all my ideas of happiness!
The gentlemen came; and she thought he looked as if he would have answered her hopes; but, alas! the ladies had crowded round the table, where Miss Bennet was making tea, and Elizabeth pouring out the coffee, in so close a confederacy that there was not a single vacancy near her which would admit of a chair.
Though Elizabeth would not, for the mere purpose of obliging Lady Catherine, have answered this question, she could not but say, after a moment's deliberation:"I am not."
"You can now have nothing further to say," she resentfully answered.
From an unwillingness to confess how much her intimacy with Mr. Darcy had been over-rated, Elizabeth had never yet answered Mrs. Gardiner's long letter; but now, having _that_ to communicate which she knew would be most welcome, she was almost ashamed to find that her uncle and aunt had already lost three days of happiness, and immediately wrote as follows:"I would have thanked you before, my dear aunt, as I ought to have done, for your long, kind, satisfactory, detail of particulars; but to say the truth, I was too cross to write.
His name was Nebuchadnezzar, but he only answered to the familiar abbreviation of Neb.
But the balloon will hold six--""That will be enough, we will go," answered Harding in a firm voice.
But this important question could not yet be answered.
This was soon answered.
"Very warm," answered the engineer.
The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted.
"Will it not be better to wait until we have explored it to its mouth?" answered Herbert.
Cyrus Harding and Herbert, while hunting one day, had entered the forest of the Far West, on the left bank of the Mercy, and, as usual, the lad was asking a thousand questions of the engineer, who answered them heartily.
"It is to be hoped so," answered Spilett, "for without coal there would be no machinery, and without machinery there would be no railways, no steamers, no manufactories, nothing of that which is indispensable to modern civilization!"
As to the question of knowing where this channel ended, at what point of the shore, and at what depth beneath the water, it could not be answered.
The building of the vessel advanced rapidly, she was already completely decked over, and all the inside parts of the hull were firmly united with ribs bent by means of steam, which answered all the purposes of a mold.
"Out of six," answered Pencroft; "you forget Jup.""Out of seven," added Neb; "Top is quite worth another."
"That is perfectly logical," answered Spilett; "and the presence of this castaway explains the arrival of the case on the shores of our island.
"It appears fortunate, that's all," answered the sailor.
All these questions, which would no doubt be answered the next day, kept them in suspense, and at the dawn of day they all fixed their gaze on the western horizon.
"Exactly so," answered the reporter, "and it is the best plan."
"Indeed," answered Herbert, "nothing here betrays the presence of man.""Let us go down," said Pencroft, "and search."
"Indeed," answered Herbert, "an inhabitant, whoever he was, could not have neglected such an important culture!""Yes," said Pencroft, "the castaway has gone."
"Yes, a very long time!" answered the reporter.
"You are right, Pencroft," answered Gideon Spilett, "and if its owner returns, well!
"It matters very little, Pencroft!""Very little indeed," answered the sailor, "and we will save the survivor of her crew if he is still living, to whatever country he may belong.
"Then perhaps it would be best," said the reporter, "to remain a day longer on Tabor Island, so as to collect all that may be useful to us.""No, Mr. Spilett," answered Pencroft, "I will ask you to set off to-morrow at daybreak.
"But he is not an ape," answered Herbert.
"Perhaps," answered Gideon Spilett.
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