You must see how you will be accommodated on board the Nautilus." I followed Captain Nemo who, by one of the doors opening from each panel of the drawing-room, regained the waist.

He conducted me towards the bow, and there I found, not a cabin, but an elegant room, with a bed, dressing-table, and several other pieces of excellent furniture.
I could only thank my host.
"Your room adjoins mine," said he, opening a door, "and mine opens into the drawing-room that we have just quitted." I entered the Captain's room: it had a severe, almost a monkish aspect.

A small iron bedstead, a table, some articles for the toilet; the whole lighted by a skylight.

No comforts, the strictest necessaries only.
Captain Nemo pointed to a seat.
"Be so good as to sit down," he said.

I seated myself, and he began thus:.