captain nemo · twenty thousand leagues under the sea · victor hugo · steampunk · submarine · prisoner · brooding · victorian era · isolation · adventure
The iron walls of the brig closed around the four castaways. Professor Aronnax, Conseil, Ned Land, and you stood in the dim light, fate uncertain. “Confound it!” Ned Land cried, adding ironically, “here are people who come up to the Scotch for hospitality.”