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work.
When
all was over,
he went
to his own
room.
I
looked after him. On the wall, beneath the portraits of his heroes, I perceived the likeness of a young woman with two little children.
Captain Nemo looked at them for some minutes, extended his arms to them, and, falling upon his knees, burst into a passion of sobs.
