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Jules Verne
· Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
· Project Gutenberg
At this moment the door of the large saloon opened, and Captain Nemo appeared. He saw me, and without further preamble began in an amiable tone of voice: “Ah, sir! Do you know the history of Spain?” Now, one might know the history of one’s own country by heart; but in the condition I was at the time, with troubled mind and head quite lost, I could not have said a word of it.
Captain Nemo's entrance is marked by a sudden opening of the saloon door, immediately shifting the atmosphere with his direct, amiable inquiry. His question about the history of Spain strikes the narrator sharply, underscoring the narrator's inner turmoil and ...