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Ned Land
Conseil is a 30-year-old Flemish man who works as Arronax’s servant and joins him on the Abraham Lincoln expedition. He is devoted to Arronax almost to the point of parody, several times attempting to sacrifice his own life in order to save that of his “master.” Aside from being selfless and compassionate, Conseil is highly intelligent, and helps Arronax with his scientific research. He forms a somewhat unlikely friendship with Ned Land, and often ends up calming Ned down when he falls into states of frenzy or despair about their status as captives aboard the Nautilus.
Conseil Quotes in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea quotes below are all either spoken by Conseil or refer to Conseil. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 1, Chapter 8
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“By the pluck!” he fumed. “Here are people as badly off as the Scotch for hospitality. They are gentle as cannibals. And I shouldn’t be surprised if they were man-eaters. But I’ll be right there when they start to swallow me.”
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Part 1, Chapter 23
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We were growing fast to our shell like snails, and I swear it must be easy to lead a snail’s existence. Thus, our undersea life began to seem natural to us, and we no longer thought of the days we used to spend on land.
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Conseil Quotes in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea quotes below are all either spoken by Conseil or refer to Conseil. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 1, Chapter 8
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“By the pluck!” he fumed. “Here are people as badly off as the Scotch for hospitality. They are gentle as cannibals. And I shouldn’t be surprised if they were man-eaters. But I’ll be right there when they start to swallow me.”
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Part 1, Chapter 23
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We were growing fast to our shell like snails, and I swear it must be easy to lead a snail’s existence. Thus, our undersea life began to seem natural to us, and we no longer thought of the days we used to spend on land.
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