What kind of guide can lead you to the center of the earth?

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And now, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, 3 of 9 by Jules Verne.

Chapter 11. A Guide Found to the Center of the Earth.

In the evening I took a short walk on the beach and returned at night to my plank bed where I slept soundly all night.

When I awoke I heard my uncle talking at a great rate in the next room.

I immediately dressed and joined him.

He was conversing in the Danish language with a tall man of robust build.

This fine fellow must have been possessed of great strength. His eyes,

set in a large and ingenuous face, seemed to me very intelligent. They were of a dreamy sea-blue, long hair, which would have been called red even in

England, fell in long meshes upon his broad shoulders. The movements of this native were lithe and supple, but he made little use of his arms in speaking, like a man who knew nothing or cared nothing about the language of gestures.

His whole appearance bespoke perfect calmness

and self-possession, not indolence, but tranquility.

It was felt at once that he would be beholden to nobody, that he worked for his own convenience,

and that nothing in this world could astonish or disturb his philosophic calmness.

I caught the shades of this Icelander's character by the way in which he listened to the

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