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With
the
winter
,
work
had
been
resumed
in
the
interior
of
Granite
House
,
mending
clothes
and
different
occupations
,
among
others
making
the
sails
for
their
vessel
,
which
were
cut
from
the
inexhaustible
balloon-case
.
During
the
month
of
July
the
cold
was
intense
,
but
there
was
no
lack
of
either
wood
or
coal
.
Cyrus
Harding
had
established
a
second
fireplace
in
the
dining-room
,
and
there
the
long
winter
evenings
were
spent
.
Talking
while
they
worked
,
reading
when
the
hands
remained
idle
,
the
time
passed
with
profit
to
all
.
It
was
real
enjoyment
to
the
settlers
when
in
their
room
,
well
lighted
with
candles
,
well
warmed
with
coal
,
after
a
good
dinner
,
elderberry
coffee
smoking
in
the
cups
,
the
pipes
giving
forth
an
odoriferous
smoke
,
they
could
hear
the
storm
howling
without
.
Their
comfort
would
have
been
complete
,
if
complete
comfort
could
ever
exist
for
those
who
are
far
from
their
fellow-creatures
,
and
without
any
means
of
communication
with
them
.
They
often
talked
of
their
country
,
of
the
friends
whom
they
had
left
,
of
the
grandeur
of
the
American
Republic
,
whose
influence
could
not
but
increase
;
and
Cyrus
Harding
,
who
had
been
much
mixed
up
with
the
affairs
of
the
Union
,
greatly
interested
his
auditors
by
his
recitals
,
his
views
,
and
his
prognostics
.
It
chanced
one
day
that
Spilett
was
led
to
say
--
"
But
now
,
my
dear
Cyrus
,
all
this
industrial
and
commercial
movement
to
which
you
predict
a
continual
advance
,
does
it
not
run
the
danger
of
being
sooner
or
later
completely
stopped
?
"
"
Stopped
!
And
by
what
?
"
"
By
the
want
of
coal
,
which
may
justly
be
called
the
most
precious
of
minerals
.
"
"
Yes
,
the
most
precious
indeed
,
"
replied
the
engineer
;
"
and
it
would
seem
that
nature
wished
to
prove
that
it
was
so
by
making
the
diamond
,
which
is
simply
pure
carbon
crystallized
.
"
"
You
do
n't
mean
to
say
,
captain
,
"
interrupted
Pencroft
,
"
that
we
burn
diamonds
in
our
stoves
in
the
shape
of
coal
?
"
