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If the Starboardites had settled on Floating Island completely with the intention to peaceably take pleasure in their riches, the Larboardites started to hanker after enterprise. They have been asking why Floating Island shouldn't be used as a massive service provider vessel and hold shipment to each a part of Oceania, why all industries have been forbidden within the island? in brief, even supposing that they had been right here under years, those Yankees, with Tankerdon on the head, have been starting to lengthy to do a exchange back. even though they'd now not said this in such a lot of phrases, Cyrus Bikerstaff couldn't aid being fearful approximately it. He was hoping, although, that the long run wouldn't develop worse, and that gut dissension wouldn't hassle an island made expressly for the tranquillity of its population. In taking go away of Athanase Dorémus, the quartette promised to go to him back. quite often, the professor went within the afternoon to the on line casino to which no one got here. There, now not wishing to be accused of unpunctuality, he waited getting ready his classes prior to the looking-glasses within the room. The island progressively moved to the westward, and a bit in the direction of the north-west, with the intention to contact on the Sandwich Islands. within the latitudes bordering at the torrid region the temperature is already excessive, and the population of Milliard urban might have discovered it nearly insufferable had it no longer been for the cooling sea breeze. thankfully, the nights are clean, or even within the dog-days the timber and lawns watered with synthetic rain retained their beautiful verdure. each day, at midday, the placement proven at the dials of town corridor was once telegraphed to different quarters. at the seventeenth of June, Floating Island used to be in 1550 longitude west and 27° range north, and imminent the tropics. “You may say it used to be the solar which towed us” remarked Yvernès, “or for those who love it extra elegantly, that we've got for our crew the horses of the divine Apollo! ” The remark was once as applicable because it was once poetical, yet Sebastien Zorn bought it with a shrug of his shoulders. It didn't go well with him to be towed—against his will. “Well,” he could by no means stop repeating, “we shall see how this experience will finish. ” The quartette typically went into the park on a daily basis on the stylish hour. On horse, taking walks, of their carriages, all of the notables of Milliard urban have been to be met with round the lawns. the women of favor the following confirmed their 3rd day-by-day toilette, of 1 color all through, from the hat to the boots, and customarily of Indian silk, which used to be extremely popular this yr. frequently, too, they wore synthetic silk made from cellulose, during which there's this sort of play of color; or perhaps imitation cotton, made up of pine or larch-wood defibrized and disintegrated. This provoked Pinchinat to comment, “You will see that someday they'll make materials of ivy-wood for trustworthy pals, and weeping willow for inconsolable widows. ” as a minimum, the rich Milliardites should not have worn those materials in the event that they had no longer come from Paris, nor those clothes in the event that they had now not borne the identify of the king of dressmakers—of him who haughtily proclaimed the axiom: “Woman is just a question of gown.