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I therefore awoke next day relieved from the preoccupation of an / immediate start. Although we were in the very deepest of known / depths, there was something not unpleasant about it. And, besides, we / were beginning to get accustomed to this troglodyte [1] life. I no / longer thought of sun, moon, and stars, trees, houses, and towns, nor / of any of those terrestrial superfluities which are necessaries of / men who live upon the earth's surface. Being fossils, we looked upon / all those things as mere jokes.
The grotto was an immense apartment. Along its granite floor ran our / faithful stream. At this distance from its spring the water was / scarcely tepid, and we drank of it with pleasure.