Explore "The Master of the World" by Jules Verne on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
What was to be the issue of this remarkable adventure? Could I bring it / to any denouement whatever, either sooner or later? Did not Robur hold / the results wholly in his own hands? Probably I would never have such / an opportunity for escape as had occurred to Mr. Prudent and Mr. Evans / amid the islands of the Pacific. I could only wait. And how long might / the waiting last!
To be sure, my curiosity had been partly satisfied. But even now I knew / only the answer to the problems of the Great Eyrie. Having at length / penetrated its circle, I comprehended all the phenomena observed by the / people of the Blueridge Mountains. I was assured that neither the / country-folk throughout the region, nor the townfolk of Pleasant Garden / and Morganton were in danger of volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. No / subterranean forces whatever were battling within the bowels of the / mountains. No crater had arisen in this corner of the Alleghanies. The / Great Eyrie served merely as the retreat of Robur the Conqueror. This / impenetrable hiding-place where he stored his materials and provisions, / had without doubt been discovered by him during one of his aerial / voyages in the "Albatross. " It was a retreat probably even more secure / than that as yet undiscovered Island X in the Pacific.