1 We called each other familiarly by the name of cousin.
2 We accordingly rested on a seat until they should return.
3 We were brought up together; there was not quite a year difference in our ages.
4 We accordingly lay to, hoping that some change would take place in the atmosphere and weather.
5 We attempted to carry him into the cabin, but as soon as he had quitted the fresh air he fainted.
6 We resided principally in the latter, and the lives of my parents were passed in considerable seclusion.
7 We ascended into my room, and the servant presently brought breakfast; but I was unable to contain myself.
8 We returned to our college on a Sunday afternoon: the peasants were dancing, and every one we met appeared gay and happy.
9 We watched the rapid progress of the traveller with our telescopes until he was lost among the distant inequalities of the ice.
10 We accordingly brought him back to the deck and restored him to animation by rubbing him with brandy and forcing him to swallow a small quantity.
11 We, however, lay to until the morning, fearing to encounter in the dark those large loose masses which float about after the breaking up of the ice.
12 We possessed a house in Geneva, and a campagne on Belrive, the eastern shore of the lake, at the distance of rather more than a league from the city.
13 We felt that they were not the tyrants to rule our lot according to their caprice, but the agents and creators of all the many delights which we enjoyed.
14 We were, as we believed, many hundred miles from any land; but this apparition seemed to denote that it was not, in reality, so distant as we had supposed.
15 We perceived a low carriage, fixed on a sledge and drawn by dogs, pass on towards the north, at the distance of half a mile; a being which had the shape of a man, but apparently of gigantic stature, sat in the sledge and guided the dogs.
16 We passed a fortnight in these perambulations: my health and spirits had long been restored, and they gained additional strength from the salubrious air I breathed, the natural incidents of our progress, and the conversation of my friend.
17 We have already reached a very high latitude; but it is the height of summer, and although not so warm as in England, the southern gales, which blow us speedily towards those shores which I so ardently desire to attain, breathe a degree of renovating warmth which I had not expected.
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