Reading Time: 2 minutesI should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the present moment; and yet I feel that I never was a greater artist than now.

Reading Time: 2 minutesI throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream; and, as I lie close to the earth.

Reading Time: 2 minutesRemoving the fire-board from the front of the try-works, the bare masonry of that side is exposed.

Reading Time: 2 minutesBut a single delay would suffice to fatally break the chain of communication; should Phileas Fogg once miss.