[All Around the Moon by Jules Verne]@TWC D-Link bookAll Around the Moon CHAPTER XXIV 11/11
His experience in the vast operations at Stony Hill has given him great skill in the difficult art of managing men.
His voice is seldom heard at the meetings, but when it is, people seem to take a pleasure in readily submitting to its dictates. In wet weather or dry, in hot weather or cold, he may still be seen every day at Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, leisurely strolling from building to building, picking his steps quietly through the bustling crowds of busy workmen, never speaking a word, not even to Marston his faithful shadow, often pencilling something in his pocket book, stopping occasionally to look apparently nowhere, but never, you may be sure, allowing a single detail in the restless panorama around him to escape the piercing shaft of his eagle glance. He is evidently determined on rendering the great CENTENNIAL of his country a still greater and more wonderful success than even his own world-famous and never to be forgotten JOURNEY through the boundless fields of ether, and ALL AROUND THE MOON! END..
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