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notes. Now we'll be right back after a quick word from our sponsors. Welcome to send me to sleep. The place to find a good night's rest. My name's Andrew.

Thanks for joining me and for taking this time for yourself to ensure you get a peaceful night's sleep.

Tonight I'll be reading 20,000 leagues under the sea.

Part 2, chapters 21 to 23, the final chapters.

In the previous chapters, the Nautilus had just located the lost wreckage of the Avenger.

In the following chapters, there's a serious confrontation with an enemy ship,

as our story concludes.

If you haven't already, find a nice place to get cozy.

Take a deep, relaxing breath. And settle your body in whatever way feels most comfortable.

Now all you'll need to do is follow the sound of my voice. So let your eyes fall heavy, and your breath soften.

As we set a your breath soften as we settle in for a peaceful night's sleep. Chapter 21, A Heka-Tum. The way of describing this unlooked foreseen, the history of the Patriot ship, told at first so coldly, and the emotion with which this strange man pronounced the last words, the name of the

Avenger, the significance of which could not escape me, all impressed itself deeply on my mind.

My eyes did not leave the captain, who, with his hands stretched out to see, was watching

with a glowing eye, the glorious wreck.

Perhaps I was never to know who he was, from whence he came,

where he was going.

But I saw the man move, and apart from the savant.

It was no common misanthropy which had shut Captain Nemo and his companions within the Nautilus, but a hatred, either monstrous or sublime, which time could never weaken.

Did this hatred still seek for vengeance?

The future would soon teach me that.

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