[A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne]@TWC D-Link bookA Journey to the Interior of the Earth CHAPTER XVI 11/12
His gaze, ever directed upwards, was lost in the grey and misty space beyond. On the 26th nothing yet.
Rain mingled with snow was falling all day long.
Hans built a hut of pieces of lava.
I felt a malicious pleasure in watching the thousand rills and cascades that came tumbling down the sides of the cone, and the deafening continuous din awaked by every stone against which they bounded. My uncle's rage knew no bounds.
It was enough to irritate a meeker man than he; for it was foundering almost within the port. But Heaven never sends unmixed grief, and for Professor Liedenbrock there was a satisfaction in store proportioned to his desperate anxieties. The next day the sky was again overcast; but on the 29th of June, the last day but one of the month, with the change of the moon came a change of weather.
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