seven o'clock in the morning
That 's the way they always do ! I would give twenty pistoles to fall upon the Cambridge Observatory and crush it , with all its stupid staff inside ! '' All at once the captain made a reflection which struck Barbicane at once . `` Why , '' said he , `` it is seven o'clock in the morning , so we have been thirty-two hours on the road . We have come more than half way , and we are not falling yet that I know of ! '' Barbicane did not answer , but after a rapid glance at the captain he took a compass , which he used to measure the angular distance of the terrestrial globe . Then through the lower port-light he made a very exact observation from the apparent immobility of the projectile .