Above all things, do not let us get excited.

If everything works properly, it will not be long before I can send the Artesian ray down into depths with which I am not acquainted--how far I do not know--but we must wait and see what is the utmost we can do.

When we have reached that point, it will be in order to hoist our flags and blow our trumpets.

I hope it will not be long before the light descends so deep that we shall be obliged to use a telescope." "And will it not be possible, Roland," Margaret said, earnestly, "that we shall ever look down into the earth together?
When the light gets beyond the depth to which people have dug and bored, I shall never want to stand there alone behind the screen and see what next shall show itself." "That screen is an awkward affair," said Roland.

"Perhaps I may think of a method by which it can be done away with, and by which we can stand side by side and look down as far into the depths of the earth as our Artesian ray can be induced to bore.".