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2026-03-22
I was answered through the stillness of night by a loud and fiendish laugh. It rang on my ears long and heavily; the mountains re-echoed it, and I felt as if all hell surrounded me with mockery and laughter. Surely in that moment I should have been possessed b...
2026-03-09
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2026-03-05
He was looking at the ship, which was five or six miles to leeward. He was going round it like a wild beast, and, drawing it eastward, he allowed them to pursue. But I had scarcely spoken, when Captain Nemo imposed silence, saying: “I am the law, and I am the ...
2026-03-04
We are all unhappy; but will not that be an additional motive for you, my son, to return and be our comforter? I now say, Thank God she did not live to witness the cruel, miserable death of her youngest darling! “Come, Victor; not brooding thoughts of vengeanc...
2025-11-22
You shall be avenged in turn; for not one of them but shall minister to your needs. But as yet you are to be punished for what you have done.