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In one, of the cabins of the after-house Uncle Prudent and Phil Evans / had found two excellent berths, with clean linen, change of clothes, / and traveling-cloaks and rugs. No Atlantic liner could have offered / them more comfort. If they did not sleep soundly it was that they did / not wish to do so, or rather that their very real anxiety prevented / them. In what adventure had they embarked? To what series of / experiments had they been invited? How would the business end? And / above all, what was Robur going to do with them?
Frycollin, the valet, was quartered forward in a cabin adjoining that / of the cook. The neighborhood did not displease him; he liked to rub / shoulders with the great in this world. But if he finally went to sleep / it was to dream of fall after fall, of projections through space, which / made his sleep a horrible nightmare.