Dreadful to hear, Captain Nemo was even more dreadful to see. His face was pale from some spasm of his heart, which must have stopped beating for an instant. His pupils were hideously contracted. His voice was no longer speaking, it was bellowing. Bending from the waist, he shook the Canadian by the shoulders.
Kapitein Nemo was vreeselijk om aan te hooren, doch nog verschrikkelijker om aan te zien. Zijn gelaat was doodsbleek van woede; zijn oogen waren verschrikkelijk samengetrokken; hij sprak niet meer, hij brulde; hij stond daar voorover gebukt en drukte den Amerikaan bijna in elkander.