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Off on a Comet-Part49_JULES VERNE(1828-1905)_Translated Works(翻译文学)-第2页

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that ensured them from want, were despatched to their native shores.

The leave taking was accompanied by genuine tokens of regard and goodwill.



For Isaac Hakkabut alone there was no feeling of regret.

Doubly ruined by the loss of his tartan, and by the abandonment



of his fortune, he disappeared entirely from the scene.

It is needless to say that no one troubled himself to institute



a search after him, and, as Ben Zoof sententiously remarked,

"Perhaps old Jehoram is making money in America by exhibiting



himself as the latest arrival from a comet!"

But however great was the reserve which Captain Servadac might make



on his part, nothing could induce Professor Rosette to conceal

his experiences. In spite of the denial which astronomer after



astronomer gave to the appearance of such a comet as Gallia at all,

and of its being refused admission to the catalogue, he published



a voluminous treatise, not only detailing his own adventures,

but setting forth, with the most elaborate precision,



all the elements which settled its period and its orbit.

Discussions arose in scientific circles; an overwhelming



majority decided against the representations of the professor;

an unimportantminority declared themselves in his favor,



and a pamphlet obtained some degree of notice, ridiculing the whole

debate under the title of "The History of an Hypothesis." In reply



to this impertinent criticism of his labors, Rosette issued

a rejoinder full with the most vehement expressions of indignation,



and reiterating his asseveration that a fragment of Gibraltar

was still traversing the regions of space, carrying thirteen



Englishmen upon its surface, and concluding by saying that it

was the great disappointment of his life that he had not been



taken with them.

Pablo and little Nina were adopted, the one by Servadac, the other



by the count, and under the supervision of their guardians,

were well educated and cared for. Some years later, Colonel,



no longer Captain, Servadac, his hair slightly streaked with grey,

had the pleasure of seeing the handsome young Spaniard united



in marriage to the Italian, now grown into a charming girl,

upon whom the count bestowed an ample dowry; the young people's



happiness in no way marred by the fact that they had not been destined,

as once seemed likely, to be the Adam and Eve of a new world.



The career of the comet was ever a mystery which neither Servadac

nor his orderly could eliminate from the regions of doubt.



Anyhow, they were firmer and more confiding friends than ever.

One day, in the environs of Montmartre, where they were secure



from eavesdroppers, Ben Zoof incidentally referred to the experiences

in the depths of Nina's Hive; but stopped short and said,



"However, those things never happened, sir, did they?"

His master could only reply, "Confound it, Ben Zoof! What is



a man to believe?"

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