Journey to the Center of the Earth

by Jules Verne

She enchanted me, and I felt furious at leaving her.

Anyway, I’ll be intelligent for them.”

Travelers in the heart of Africa, among the Saharas, in the old world, or in the bosoms of forests in the new, are obliged to take turns at watching each other during the hours of sleep, but here there was absolute solitude and complete security; neither savages nor wild beasts were to be feared.

We pressed on, impelled by intense curiosity.

While the heart beats and the flesh palpitates, a creature endowed with will should never give place to despair.”