"One more will make but little difference, poor beast!" exclaimed Pencroft, heaving out two bags of sand, and as he spoke letting go the cable; the balloon ascending in an oblique direction, disappeared, after having dashed the car against two chimneys, which it threw down as it swept by them.
Después desamarró el doble cable, y el globo partió en dirección oblicua y desapareció, después de haber chocado su barquilla contra dos chimeneas que derribó con la violencia del golpe.