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.

Anything you can imagine you can make real.

With time and thought, one can do a good job.

He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.

Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?

Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.