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A month passed away. Gallia continued its course, bearing its little / population onwards, so far removed from the ordinary influence of human / passions that it might almost be said that its sole ostensible vice was / represented by the greed and avarice of the miserable Jew.
After all, they were but making a voyage -- a strange, yet a transient, / excursion through solar regions hitherto untraversed; but if the / professor's calculations were correct -- and why should they be / doubted? -- their little vessel was destined, after a two years' absence, / once more to return "to port. " The landing, indeed, might be a matter / of difficulty; but with the good prospect before them of once again / standing on terrestrial shores, they had nothing to do at present / except to make themselves as comfortable as they could in their present / quarters.