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My companions weren't yet stirring and still lay in their corners like inanimate objects.
"Why, the freedom to come, go, see, and even closely observe everything happening here--except under certain rare circumstances-- in short, the freedom we ourselves enjoy, my companions and I."It was obvious that we did not understand each other.
You, if not your companions, won't perhaps complain too much about the stroke of fate that has brought us together.
"By what name am I to call you?""Sir," the commander replied, "to you, I'm simply Captain Nemo; to me, you and your companions are simply passengers on the Nautilus."
There our Nautilus was completed by me and my workmen, in other words, by my gallant companions whom I've molded and educated.
My two gallant companions stood petrified at the sight of the wonders on display.
He hopes nothing will prevent the professor from attending, and he looks forward with pleasure to the professor's companions joining him.
I showed my companions this small, stray rock in the middle of the north Pacific.
Since he made no allusion to his absence the past eight days, I also refrained from mentioning it, and I simply answered that my companions and I were ready to go with him.
Captain Nemo led me to the Nautilus's stern, and passing by Ned and Conseil's cabin, I summoned my two companions, who instantly followed us.
Towed in the same way, my companions went with me.
This rather shady conduct aroused the suspicion that the natives had mistreated the castaways; and in truth, the natives seemed afraid that Dumont d'Urville had come to avenge the Count de La Pérouse and his unfortunate companions.
The commander of the new Astrolabe then had a monument erected under a tuft of mangrove, in memory of the famous navigator and his companions.
"A coral grave is a tranquil grave, and may Heaven grant that my companions and I rest in no other!"
Taking advantage of this situation, my two companions and I found seats on the ever-deserted platform.
I suspect that my two fine companions weren't quite as clearheaded as one could wish.
Ten of his companions followed him.
My companions and I then witnessed an unusual sight.
He addressed a few words to his chief officer in their strange language, then he turned to me:"Professor Aronnax," he told me in a tone of some urgency, "I ask that you now honor one of the binding agreements between us.""Which one, captain?""You and your companions must be placed in confinement until I see fit to set you free."
I told my companions what had happened.
No doubt my companions had been put back in their cabin without noticing it any more than I had.
"Professor," he said to me, "would it be convenient for you to make an underwater excursion today?""With my companions?"
My companions and I stopped walking, and turning around, I saw the crewmen form a semicircle around their leader.
My two companions and I bowed reverently.
"And now he rests beside his companions in that coral cemetery?"
Nevertheless, I'm well aware that the Nautilus is drawing near to populated shores, and if some chance for salvation becomes available to us, it would be sheer cruelty to sacrifice my companions to my passion for the unknown.
"On that note, professor," Captain Nemo told me, "you and your companions will visit the Mannar oysterbank, and if by chance some eager fisherman arrives early, well, we can watch him at work.""That suits me, captain."
"A simple trip to an oysterbank?"Assuredly, Captain Nemo hadn't seen fit to plant the idea of sharks in the minds of my companions.
"What about my companions, captain?""They've been alerted and are waiting for us."
The longboat's coxswain took the tiller; his four companions leaned into their oars; the moorings were cast off and we pulled clear.
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