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Around The World in Eighty Days · Around The World in Eighty Days

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  Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, Chapter one, in which
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  Phileas Fogg and passepartout accept each other. The one is master, the other
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  as man. Mister Phileas Fogg lived in eighteen seventy two at number seven Savile
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  Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in eighteen fourteen.
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  He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he
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  seemed always to avoid attracting attention, and enigmatical personage about whom little was known
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  except that he was a polished man of the world. People said that he
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  resembled Byron at least, that his head was byronic. But he was a
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  bearded, tranquil Byron who might live on a thousand years without growing old.
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  Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner.
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  He was never seen on change, nor at the bank, nor in the
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  counting rooms of the city. No ships ever came into London Docks, of
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  which he was the owner. He had no public employment. He had never
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  been entered at any of the inns of court, either at the Temple or
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  Lincoln's Inn or Gray's inn, nor had his voice ever resounded in the Court
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  of Chancery, or in the exchequer, or the Queen's branch or the ecclesiastical
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  courts. He certainly was not a manufacturer, nor was he a merchant or
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  a gentleman farmer. His name was strange to the scientific and learned societies,
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  and he never was known to take part in the sage deliberations of the Royal
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  Institution or the London Institution, the Artisans Association, or the Institution of Arts
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  and Sciences. He belonged, in fact, to none of the numerous societies
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  which swarm in the English capitol, from the Harmonic to that of the Entomologists,
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  founded mainly for the purpose of abolishing pernicious insects. Phileas Fogg was a
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  member of the reform and that was all. The way in which he got
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  admission to this exclusive club was simple enough. He was recommended by the bearings
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  with whom he had an open credit. His checks were regularly paid at sight
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  from his account current, which was always flush. Was Phileas Fogg rich,
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  undoubtedly, but those who knew him best could not imagine how he had made
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  his fortune. And mister Fogg was the last person to whom to apply for
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  the information. He was not lavish, nor on the contrary, avaricious,
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  For whenever he knew that money was needed for a noble, useful, or
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  benevolent purpose, he supplied it quietly and sometimes anonymously. He was, in
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  short, the least communecative of men. He talked very little, and seemed
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  all the more mysterious for his taciturn manner. His daily habits were quite open
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  to observation. But whatever he did was so exactly the same thing that he'd
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  always done before that the wits of the curious were fairly puzzled. Had he
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  traveled, it was likely, for no one seemed to know the world more
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  familiarly. There was no spot so secluded that he did not appear to have
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  an intimate acquaintance with it. He often corrected with a few clear words the
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  thousand conjectures advanced by members of the club as to lost and unheard of travelers,
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  pointing out the true probabilities, and seeming as if gifted with a sort
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  of second sight. So often did events justify his predictions. He must have
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  traveled everywhere, at least in the spirit. It was at least certain that
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  Phileas Fogg had not absented himself from London for many years. Those who were
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  honored by a better acquaintance with him than the rest declared that nobody could pretend
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  to have ever seen him anywhere else. His soul pastimes were reading the papers
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  and playing whist. He often wanted this game, which, as a silent
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  one, harmonized with his nature, But his winnings never went into his purse,
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  being reserved as a fund for his charities. Mister Fogg played not to
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  win, but for the sake of playing. The game was, in his
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  eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying
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  struggle congenial to his tastes. Phileas Fogg was not known to have either wife
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  or children, which may happen to the most honest people, either relatives or
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  near friends, which is certainly more unusual. He lived alone in his house
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  in Saville Road, whither none penetrated a single domestic sufficed to serve him.
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  He breakfasted and dined at the club at hours mathematically fixed in the same room
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  at the same table, never taking his meals with other members, much less
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  bringing a gust with him, and went home at exactly midnight, only retire
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  at once to bed. He never used the cozy chambers which the Reform provides
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  for its favored members. He passed ten hours out of the twenty four in
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  saddle row, either in sleeping or making his toilet. When he chose to
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  take a walk, it was with a regular step in the entrance hall,
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  with its mosaic flooring, or in the circular gallery, with its domes supported
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  by twenty red porphyri ionic columns and illumined by blue painted windows. When he
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  breakfasted or dined, all the resources of the club, its kitchens and pantries,
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  its buttery and dairy, added to crowd his table with their most succulent
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  stores. He was served by the gravest waiters, in dress coats and shoes
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  with swan skin soles, who proffered the viands in special porcelain and on the
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  finest linen. Club decanters of a lost mold contained his sherry, his port,
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  and his cinnamon spiced claret, while his beverages were refreshingly cooled with ice
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  brought it great cost from the American lakes. If to live in this style
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  is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in
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  eccentricity. The mansion in saville Row, though not sumptuous, was exceedingly comfortable.
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  The habits of its occupant were such as to demand but little from the
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  soul domestic, but Phileas Fogg required him to be almost superhumanly prompt and regular.
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  On this very second of Ice October, he had dismissed James Forster because
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  that luckless youth had brought him shaving water at eighty four degrees fahrenheit instead of
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  eighty six. And he was awaiting his successor, who was due at the
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  house between eleven and half past. Phileas Fogg was seated squarely in his arm
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  chair, his feet close together like those of a grenadier on parade, his
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  hands resting on his knees, his body straight, his head erect. He
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  was steadily watching a complicated clock which indicated the hours, the minutes, the
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  seconds, the days, the months and the years. At exactly half past
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  eleven, mister Fogg would, according to his daily habit, quit savle Row
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  and repair to the reform. A rap at this moment sounded on the door
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  of the cozy apartment where Phileas Fogg was seated and James Forster, the dismissed
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  servant, appeared. He's a new servant, said he, a young man
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  of thirty advanced and bowed. You are a Frenchman, I believe, asked
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  Phileas Fogg. And your name is John Jean if Monsieur pleases, replied the
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  newcomer, Jean passepartout and surname which has clung to me because I have a
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  natural aptness for going out of one business into another. I believe I'm honest,
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  monsieur, But to be outspoken, I've had several trades. I've been
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  an itinerant, singer, a circus rider when I used to vault like leotard
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  and dance on a rope like blondin. Then I got to be a professor
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  of gymnastics so as to make better use of my talents. And then there
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  was a sergeant Fiderman at Paris and assisted it many a big fire. But
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  I quitted France five years ago, and, wishing to taste the sweets of
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  domestic Lifefe took service as a valet here in England, finding myself out of
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  place and hearing that Monsieur Phileas Fogg was the most exact and settled gentleman in
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  the United Kingdom. I have come to Monsieur in the hope of living with
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  him a tranquil life and forgetting even the name of passe Partout. Pass Partout
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  suits me, responded mister Fogg, you are well recommended to me. I
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  hear a good report of you. You know my conditions, yes, monsieur
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  good. What time is it? Twenty two minutes after eleven returned Passepartout,
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  drawing an enormous silver watch from the depths of his pocket. You are too
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  slow, said mister Fogg. Pardon me, monsieur, it is impossible.
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  You are four minutes too slow. No matter, It's enough to mention the
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  error. Now from this moment twenty nine minutes after eleven a m. This
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  Wednesday, second October, you are in my service, Phileas Fogg got up,
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  took his hat in his left hand, put it on his head with
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  an automatic motion, and went off without a word. Passepartout heard the street
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  door shut once. It was his new master going out. He heard it
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  shut again it was his predecessor, James Forster, departing in his turn.
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  Passepartout remained alone in the house in Savile Row. End of chapter chapter two,
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  in which Passepartout is convinced that he has at last found his ideal faith.
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  Muttered, Passepartout somewhat flurried, I've seen people at Madame Tussord's as lively
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  as my new master. Madame Tussaud's people, let it be said, are
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  of wax and are much visited in London. Speech is all that is,
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  wanting to make them human. During his brief interview with mister Fogg, Passepartout
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  had been carefully observing him. He appeared to be a man about forty years
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  of age, with fine, handsome features and a tall, well shaped figure.
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  His hair and whiskers were light, his forehead compact and unwrinkled, his
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  face rather pale, his teeth magnificent, His countenance possessed in the highest degree
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  what physiognomists call repose inaction, a quality of those who act rather than talk.
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  Calm and phlegmatic, with a clear eye, mister Fogg seemed a perfect
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  type of that English composer which Angelica Kaufman has so skillfully represented on canvas.
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  Seen in the various phases of his daily life. He gave the idea of
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  being perfectly well balanced, as if exactly regulated as a Leroy chronometer. Phileas
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  Fogg was indeed exactitude personified, and this was betrayed even in the expression of
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  his very hands and feet, For in men as well as in animals,
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  the limbs themselves are expressive of the passions. He was so exact that he
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  was never in a hurry, was always ready, and was economical alike of
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  his steps and his motions. He never took one step too many, and
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  always went to his destination by the shortest cut. He made no superfluous gestures,
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  and was never seen to be moved or agitated. He was the most
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  deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment.
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  He lived alone, and so to speak, outside of every social relation,
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  and as he knew that in this world account must be taken of friction,
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  and that friek retards, he never rubbed against anybody. As for past
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  partout, he was a true Parisian of Paris. Since he had abandoned his
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  own country for England, taking service as a valet, he had in vain
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  searched for a master after his own heart past Partout was by no means one
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  of those pert dunces depicted by Moliere, with a bold gaze and a nose
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  held high in the air. He was an honest fellow, with a pleasant
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  face, lips a trifle protruding, soft mannered and serviceable, with a good
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  round head, such as one likes to see on the shoulders of a friend.
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  His eyes were blue, his complexion rubicund, his figure almost portly and
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  well built, his body muscular, and his physical powers fully developed by the
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  exercises of his younger days. His brown hair was somewhat tumbled. For while
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  the ancient sculptors are said to have known eighteen methods of arranging Minerva stresses,
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  Passepartout was familiar with, but one of dressing his own. Three strokes of
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  a large toothcomb completed his toilet. It would be rash to predict how Passepartout's
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  lively nature would agree with mister Fogg. It was impossible to tell whether the
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  new servant would turn out as absolutely methodical as his master required. Experience alone
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  could solve the question. Pass Partout had been a sort of vagrant in his
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  early years, and now yearned for repose, But so far he had failed
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  to find it, though he had already served in ten English houses, but
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  he could not take root in any of these. With chagrin, he found
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  his master's invariably whimsical and irregular, constantly running about the country or on the
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  lookout for adventure. His last master, young Lord Longferry, member of Park
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  Parliament, after passing his knights in the Haymarket taverns, was too often brought
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  home in the morning on policeman's shoulders. Passepartout, desirous of respecting the gentleman
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  whom he served, ventured a mild remonstrance on such conduct, which, being
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  ill received, he took his leave. Hearing that mister Phileas Fogg was looking
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  for a servant, and that his life was one of unbroken regularity, that
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  he neither traveled nor stayed from home over night, he felt sure that this
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  would be the place he was. After he presented himself and was accepted,
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  as has been seen, at half past eleven, then Passepartout found himself alone
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  in the house in Savle Row. He begun its inspection without delay, scouring
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  it from cellar to garret, so clean, well arranged, solemn a mansion
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  pleased him. It seemed to him like a snail's shell, lighted and warmed
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  by gas, which sufficed for both these purposes. When Passepartout reached the second
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  story, he recognized at once the room which he was to inhabit, and
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  he was well satisfied with it. Electric bells and speaking tubes afforded communication with
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  the lower stories, while on the mantel stood an electric clock precisely like that
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  in mister Fogg's benchamber, both beating the same second at the same instant.
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  That's good, that'll do, said Passepartoud to himself. He suddenly observed,
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  hung over the clock a card, which, upon inspection, proved to be
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  a program of the daily routine of the house. It comprised all that was
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  required of the servant from eight in the morning, exactly at which our Phileas
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  Fogg rose, till half past eleven, when he left the house for the
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  Reform Club. All the details of service the tea and toast at twenty three
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  minutes past eight, the shaving water at thirty seven minutes past nine, and
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  the toilet at twenty minutes before ten. Everything was regulated and foreseen that was
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  to be done from half past eleven a m. Till midnight, the hour
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  at which the methodical gentleman retired. Mister Fogg's wardrobe was amply supplied and in
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  the best taste. Each pair of trousers, coat and vest bore a number
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  indicating the time of year and season at which they were in turn to be
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  laid out for wearing, and the same system was applied to the master's shoes.
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  In short, the house and saddle row, which must have been a
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  very temple of disorder and unrest under the illustrious but dissipated Sheridan, was coziness,
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  comfort, and method idealized. There was no study, nor were there
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  books which would have been quite useless to mister Fogg, For at three five
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  form two libraries, one of general literature and the other of law and politics,
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  were at his service. A moderate sized safe stood in his bedroom,
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  constructed so as to defy fire as well as burglars. But passepartout found neither
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  arms nor hunting weapons anywhere. Everything betrayed the most tranquil and peaceable habits.
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  Having scrutinized the house from top to bottom, he rubbed his hands. A
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  broad smile overspread his features, and he said joyfully. This is just what
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  I wanted. Ah, we shall get on together, mister Fogg, and
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  I what a domestic and regular gentleman. A real machine. Well, I
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  don't mind serving a machine. End of chapter chapter three, in which a
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  conversation takes place which seems likely to cost Phileas Fogg deer. Phileas Fogg,
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  having shut the door of his house at half past eleven, and having put
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  his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy five times and his left
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  foot before his right five hundred seventy six times, reached the Reform Club,
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  an imposing edifice in Pellmell, which could not have cost less than three millions.
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  He repaired at once to the dining room, the nine windows of which
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  opened upon a tasteful garden, where the trees were already gilded with an autumn
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  coloring, and took his place at the habitual table, the cover of which
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  had already been laid for him. His breakfast consisted of a side dish,
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  a broiled fish with redding sauce, a scarlet slice of roast beef garnished with
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  mushrooms, a rhue barb and gooseberry tart, and a morsel of chasure cheese,
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  the whole being washed down with several cups of tea, for which the
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  Reform is famous. He rose at thirteen minutes to one and directed his steps
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  towards the Large Hall, a sumptuous apartment adorned with lavishly framed paintings. A
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  flunky handed him in uncut times, which he proceeded to cut with a skill
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  which betrayed familiarity with this delicate operation. The perusal of this paper absorbed Phileas
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  Fogg until a quarter before four, whilst the standard, his next task,
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  occupied him till the dinner hour. Dinner passed as breakfast had done, and
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  mister Fogg reappeared in the reading room and sat down to the pell mell at
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  twenty minutes before six. Half an hour later, several members of the Reform
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  came in and drew up to the fireplace, where a coal fire was steadily
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  burning. They were mister Fogg's usual partners at whist Andrew Stewart, an engineer,
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  John Sullivan and Samuel Fallentin, bankers, Thomas Flanagan, a brewer,
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  and gauthier Ralph one of the directors of the Bank of England, all rich
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  and highly respectable personages, even in a club which comprises the princes of English
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  trade and finance. Well, Ralph, said Thomas Flanagan. What about that
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  robbery, Oh, replied Stuart. The bank will lose the money. On
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  the contrary, broke in Ralph. I hope we may put our hands on
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  the robber. Skillful detectives have been sent to all the principal ports of America
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  and the continent, and he'll be a clever fellow if he slips through their
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  fingers. But have you got the robber's description, asked Stuart, in the
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  first place, he is no robber at all, returned Ralph positively. What
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  a fellow who makes off with fifty five thousand pounds? No robber? No,
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  perhaps he's a manufacturer. Sure, then the Daily Telegraph says that he
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  is a gentleman. It was Phileas Fogg, whose head now emerged from behind
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  its newspakers, who made this remark. He bowed to his friends and entered
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  into the conversation. The affair which formed its subject, and which was town
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  talk, had occurred three days before at the Bank of England. A package
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  of bank notes to the value of fifty five thousand pounds had been taken from
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  the principal cashier's table, that functionary being at the moment engaged in registering the
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  receipt of three shillings and sixpence. Of course, he could not have his
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  eyes everywhere. Let it be observed that the Bank of England reposes a touching
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  confidence in the honesty of the public. There are neither guards nor gratings to
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  protect its treasures. Gold silver bank notes are freely exposed at the mercy of
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  the first comer. A keen observer of English customs relates that, being in
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  one of the rooms of the bank one day, he had the curiosity to
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  examine a gold ingot weighing some seven or eight pounds. He took it up,
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  scrutinized it, passed it to his neighbor, he to the next man,
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  and so on, until the ingot, going from hand to hand,
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  was transferred to the end of a dark entry. Nor did it return to
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  its place for half an hour. Meanwhile, the cashier had not so much
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  as raised his head. But in the present instance things had not gone so
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  smoothly, the package of notes not being found. When five o'clock sounded from
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  the ponderous clock in the drawing office. The amount was passed to the account
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  of profit and loss. As soon as the robbery was discovered, picked detectives
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  hastened off to Liverpool, Glasgow, Hove, Suez, Brindisi, New York
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  and other ports, inspired by the proffered reward of two one thousand pounds and
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  five percent on the sum that might be recovered. Detectives were also charged with
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  narrowly watching those who arrived at or left London by rail, and a judicial
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  examination was at once entered upon. There were real grounds for supposing, as
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  the Daily Telegraph said that the thief did not belong to a professional band.
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  On the day of the robbery, a well dressed gentleman, of polished manners
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  and with a well to do air had been observed going to and fro in
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  the paying room where the crime was committed. A description of him was easily
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  procured and sent to the detectives, and some hopeful spirits, of whom Ralph
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  was one, did not despair of his apprehension. The papers and clubs were
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  full of the affair, and everywhere people were discussing the probabilities of a successful
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  pursuit, and the Reform Club was especially agitated. Several of its members officials.
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  Ralph would not concede that the work of the detectives was likely to be
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  in vain, for he thought that the prize offered would greatly stimulate their zeal
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  And activity. But Stuart was far from sharing this confidence, and as they
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  placed themselves at the whist table, they continued to argue the matter. Stuart
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  and Flanagan played together, while Phileas Fogg had Fellentin for his partner. As
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  the game proceeded, the conversation ceased, excepting between the rubbers, when it
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  revived again. I maintain, said Stuart, that the chances are in favor
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  of the thief, who must be a shrewd fellow. Well where can he
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  fly to? Asked Ralph. No country is safe for him, pshaw?
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  Where could he go? Then? Oh? I don't know that the world
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  is big enough it was, once said Phileas Fogg in a low tone.
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  Cut sir, he added, handing the cards to Thomas Flanagan. The discussion
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  fell during the rubber, after which Stuart took up its thread. What do
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  you mean by wants? Has the world grown smaller? Certainly returned Ralph.
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  I agree with mister Fogg. The world has grown smaller, since a man
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  can now go round it ten times more quickly than a hundred years ago.
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  And that is why the search for this thief will be more likely to succeed,
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  and also why the thief can get away more easily. Be so good
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  as to play, mister Stewart, said Phileas Fogg. But the incredulous Stuart
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  was not convinced, and when the hand was finished, said, eagerly,
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  you have a strange way, Ralph of proving that the world has grown smaller.
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  So because you can go round it in three months in eighty days,
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  interrupted Phileas Fogg. That is true, gentlemen, added John Sullivan, only
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  eighty days now that the section between Ruthal and Allahabad on the Great Indian Peninsula
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  Railway has been opened. Here is the estimate made by the Daily Telegraph from
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  London to Suez via Mont Cenis and Brindisi by rail and steamboats. Seven days
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  from Suez to Bombay by steamer, thirteen days from Bombay to Calcutta by rail,
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  three days from Calcutta to Hong Kong by steamer, thirteen days from Hong
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  Kong to Yokohama, Japan by steamer. Six days from Yokohama to San Francisco
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  by steamer, twenty two days, from San Francisco to New York by rail,
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  seven days from New York to London by steamer and rail nine days total
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  eighty days. Yes, in eighty days, exclaimed Stuart, who, in
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  his excitement made a false steel. But that doesn't take into account bad weather,
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  contrary winds, shipwrecks, railway accidents and so on, all included,
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  returned Phileas Fogg, continuing to play despite the discussion. But suppose the Hindoos
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  our Indians pull up the rails, replied Stuart. Suppose they stopped the trains,
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  pillaged the luggage vans, and scalp the passengers all included, calmly,
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  retorted Fogg, adding as he threw down the cards two drops. Stuart,
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  whose turn it was to deal, gathered them up and went on, you
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  are right theoretically, mister Fogg, but practically practically also, mister Stewart,
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  I'd like to to see you do it in eighty days. It depends on
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  you. Shall we go Heaven preserve me? But I would weigher four thousand
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  pounds that such a journey made under these conditions is impossible quite possible. On
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  the contrary, returned mister Fogg. Well make it then, the journey round
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  the world in eighty days. Yes, I should like nothing better. When
• 29:32
  at once only I warned you that I shall do it at your expense.
• 29:37
  It's absurd, cried Stuart, who was beginning to be annoyed at the persistency
• 29:41
  of his friend. Come, let's go on with the game. Deal over
• 29:47
  again, then, said Phileas Fogg. There's a false deal. Stuart took
• 29:52
  up the pack with a feverish hand, then suddenly put them down again.
• 29:57
  Well, mister Fogg, said he it shall be so, I will wager
• 30:02
  the four thousand on it. Calm yourself, my dear Stuart, said Falentin.
• 30:08
  It's only a joke when I say i'll wager, returned Stuart. I
• 30:14
  mean it all right, said mister Fogg, and turning to the others,
• 30:19
  he continued, I have a deposit of twenty thousand at bearings which I will
• 30:25
  willingly risk upon it. Twenty thousand pounds, cried Stuart. Twenty thousand pounds
• 30:33
  which you would lose by a single accidental delay. The unforeseen does not exist,
• 30:40
  quietly, replied Phileas Fogg. But mister Fogg. Eighty days are only
• 30:45
  the estimate of the least possible time in which the journey can be made.
• 30:51
  A well used minimum suffices for everything, but in order not to exceed it,
• 30:57
  you must jump mathematic from the trains upon the steamers, and from the
• 31:03
  steamers upon the trains again. I will jump mathematically. You are joking.
• 31:11
  A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as
• 31:15
  a wager, replied Phileas Fogg solemnly, I will bet twenty thousand pounds against
• 31:23
  any one who wishes that I will make the tour of the world in eighty
• 31:27
  days or less in nineteen hundred and twenty hours or one hundred and fifteen thousand,
• 31:36
  two hundred minutes. Do you accept? We accept, replied Messrs Stuart,
• 31:42
  Valentin, Sullivan, Flanagan and Ralph. After consoling each other, good,
• 31:49
  said mister Fogg. The train leaves for Dover at a quarter before nine.
• 31:55
  I will take it this very evening, asked Stuart. This very evening,
• 32:01
  returned Phileas Fogg. He took out and consulted a pocket almanac, and
• 32:07
  added, as today is Wednesday, the second of October, I shall be
• 32:13
  due in London, in this very room of the Reform Club, on Saturday,
• 32:16
  the twenty first of December, at a quarter before nine p m.
• 32:22
  Or else. The twenty thousand pounds now deposited in my name at barings will
• 32:27
  belong to you in fact and in right, gentlemen. Here is a check
• 32:31
  for the amount. A memorandum of the wager was at once drawn up and
• 32:37
  signed by the six parties, during which Phileas Fogg preserved a stoical composure.
• 32:44
  He certainly did not bet to win, and had only staked the twenty thousand
• 32:47
  pounds half of his fortune because he foresaw that he might have to expend the
• 32:53
  other half to carry out this difficult, not to say, unattainable project.
• 33:00
  As for his antagonists, they seemed much agitated, not so much by the
• 33:05
  value of their stake as because they had some scruples about betting under conditions so
• 33:10
  difficult to their friend. The clock struck seven, and the party offered to
• 33:15
  suspend the game so that mister Fogg might make his preparations for departure. I
• 33:22
  am quite ready now, was his tranquiver response. Diamonds are trumps. Be
• 33:28
  so good as to play, gentlemen. End of chapter Chapter four, in
• 33:35
  which Phileas Fogg astounds past Partwo, his servant, having won twenty guineas at
• 33:44
  Whist and taken leave of his friends. Phileas Fogg, at twenty five minutes
• 33:49
  past seven, left the Reform club. Past Partou, who had conscientiously studied
• 33:53
  the program of his duties, was more than surprised to see his master guilty
• 33:59
  of the others the inexactness of appearing at this unaccustomed hour, for according to
• 34:05
  rule, he was not due in Savole Row until precisely midnight. Mister Fogg
• 34:10
  repaired to his bedroom and called out pass Partou. Passepartout did not reply.
• 34:17
  It could not be he who was called. It was not the right hour.
• 34:22
  Pass Partou, repeated mister Fogg, without raising his voice. Passepartout made
• 34:30
  his appearance. I've called you twice, observed his master. But it is
• 34:37
  not midnight, responded the other, showing his watch. I know it.
• 34:42
  I don't blame you. We start for Dover and Calais in ten minutes.
• 34:47
  A puzzled grin overspread Passepartout's round face. Clearly he had not comprehended his master.
• 34:55
  Monsieur is going to leave home. Yes, returned Phileas Fogg. We
• 35:01
  are going around the world. Passepartout opened wide, his eyes, raised his
• 35:08
  eyebrows, held up his hands, and seemed about to collapse. So overcome
• 35:13
  was he with stupefied astonishment. Round the world, he murmured, in eighty
• 35:21
  days, responded mister Fogg. So we haven't a moment to lose what the
• 35:27
  trunks? Gasped Passepartout, unconsciously, swaying his head from right to left.
• 35:34
  We'll have no trunks, only a carpet bag with two shirts and three pairs
• 35:38
  of stockings for me and same for you. We'll buy our clothes on the
• 35:44
  way. Bring down my macintosh and traveling cloak and some stout shoes. Though
• 35:49
  we shall do little walking, make haste. Passepartout tried to reply, but
• 35:54
  could not. He went out, mounted to his own room, fell in
• 36:00
  to a chair and muttered, that's good that his and I, who wanted
• 36:06
  to remain quiet, He mechanically set about making the preparations for departure around the
• 36:13
  world in eighty days. Was his master a fool? No? Was this
• 36:20
  a joke? Then they were going to Dover, good, to Calais good
• 36:25
  again after all, pass Partout, who had been away from France five years,
• 36:30
  would not be sorry to set foot on his native soil again. Perhaps
• 36:35
  they would go as far as Parised, and it would do his eyes good
• 36:38
  to see Paris once more. But surely a gentleman so chary of his steps
• 36:44
  would stop there, no doubt. But then it was nonetheless true that he
• 36:49
  was going away, this so domestic person hitherto. By eight o'clock, Passepartout
• 36:55
  had packed the modest carpet bag containing the wardrobes of his master and himself.
• 37:00
  Then, still troubled in mind, he carefully shut the door of his room
• 37:05
  and descended to mister Fogg. Mister Fogg was quite ready. Under his arm
• 37:09
  might have been observed a red bound copy of Bradshaw's Continental Railway Steam Transit and
• 37:15
  General Guide, with its timetables showing the arrival and departure of steamers and railways.
• 37:22
  He took the carpet bag, opened it and slipped into it a goodly
• 37:27
  roll of Bank of England notes, which would pass wherever he might go.
• 37:31
  You have forgotten nothing, asked he nothing. Monsieur my Mackintosh and Cloak,
• 37:38
  here they are good. Take this carpet bag. Handing it to passpartout,
• 37:45
  take good care of it, for there are twenty thousand pounds in it.
• 37:51
  Passepartou nearly dropped the bag as if the twenty thousand pounds were in gold,
• 37:55
  and weighed him down. Master and man then descend The street door was double
• 38:00
  locked, and at the end of saddle row they took a cab and drove
• 38:05
  rapidly to Charing Cross. The cab stopped before the railway station in twenty minutes
• 38:10
  past eight. Passpartwo jumped off the box and followed his master, who,
• 38:15
  after paying the cabman, was about to enter the station when a poor beggar
• 38:20
  woman with a child in her arms, her naked feet smeared with mud,
• 38:24
  her head covered with a wretched bonnet from which hung a tattered feather, and
• 38:30
  her shoulders shrouded in a ragged shawl, approached and mournfully asked for alms.
• 38:37
  Mister Fogg took out the twenty guineas he had just won it whist and handed
• 38:40
  them to the beggar, saying, here, my good woman, I'm glad
• 38:45
  that I met you, and passed on Pastpartu had a moist sensation about the
• 38:52
  eyes. His master's action touched his susceptible heart, two first class tickets for
• 39:00
  Paris having been speedily purchased. Mister Fogg was crossing the station to the train
• 39:05
  when he perceived his five friends of the Reform. Well, gentlemen, said
• 39:09
  he I'm off, you see, and if you will examine my passport when
• 39:15
  I get back, you will be able to judge whether I have accomplished the
• 39:19
  journey agreed upon. Oh, that would be quite unnecessary, mister Fogg,
• 39:24
  said Ralph politely. We will trust your word as a gentleman of honor.
• 39:30
  You do not forget when you are due in London, again, asked Stuart
• 39:36
  in eighty days on Saturday, the twenty first of December eighteen seventy two,
• 39:42
  at a quarter before nine p m. Good bye, gentlemen. Phileas Fogg
• 39:49
  and his servants seated themselves in a first class carriage at twenty minutes before nine.
• 39:53
  Five minutes later, the whistle screamed and the train slowly glided out of
• 39:58
  the station. The night was dark and a fine, steady rain was falling.
• 40:05
  Phileas Fogg, snugly ensconced in his corner, did not open his lips
• 40:09
  passepartout, not yet recovered from his stupefaction, clung mechanically to the carpet bag
• 40:15
  with its enormous treasure. Just as the train was whirling through Sydenham, Passepartout
• 40:22
  suddenly uttered a cry of despair. What's the matter, asked mister Fogg.
• 40:29
  Alas in my hurry, I I I forgot what to turn off the gas
• 40:36
  in my room. Very well, young man, returned mister Fogg coolly,
• 40:43
  It will burn at your expense. End of chapter chapter five, in which
• 40:52
  a new species of funds, unknown to the moneyed men, appears on Change.
• 41:00
  Phileas Fogg rightly suspected that his departure from London would create a lively sensation
• 41:05
  at the West End. The news of the bet spread through the Reform Club
• 41:09
  and afforded an exciting topic of conversation to its members. From the club,
• 41:15
  it soon got into the papers throughout England. The boasted tour of the world
• 41:21
  was talked about, disputed, argued with as much warmth as if the subject
• 41:24
  was another Alabama claim. Some took sides with Phileas Fogg, but the large
• 41:30
  majority shook their heads and declared against him. It was absurd, impossible.
• 41:36
  They declared that the tour of the world could be made except theoretically and on
• 41:40
  paper in this minimum of time and with the existing means of traveling. The
• 41:46
  Times, Standard, Morning Post and Daily News and twenty other highly respectable newspapers
• 41:53
  scouted mister Fogg's project as madness. The Daily Telegraph alone hesitatingly supported him.
• 42:00
  People in general thought him a lunatic and blamed his Reform Club friends for having
• 42:07
  accepted a wager which portrayed the mental aberration of its proposer. Articles no less
• 42:13
  passionate than logical appeared on this question, For geography is one of the pet
• 42:17
  subjects of the English and the columns devoted to Phileas Fogg's venture were eagerly devoured
• 42:23
  by all classes of readers. At first, some rash individuals, principally of
• 42:30
  the gentler sex, espoused his cause, which became still more popular when the
• 42:35
  Illustrated London News came out with his portrait copied from a photograph and the Reform
• 42:39
  Club. A few readers of the Daily Telegraph even dared to say why not?
• 42:45
  After all, stranger things have come to pass? At last, a
• 42:51
  long article appeared on the seventh of October in the Bulletin of the Royal Geographical
• 42:57
  Society, which treated the question from every point of view and demonstrated the utter
• 43:01
  folly of the enterprise. Everything it said was against the travelers, every obstacle
• 43:08
  imposed alike by man and by nature. A miraculous agreement of the times of
• 43:14
  departure and arrival, which was impossible, was absolutely necessary to his success.
• 43:21
  He might perhaps reckon on the arrival of trains at the designated hours in Europe,
• 43:27
  where the distances were relatively moderate, But when he calculated upon crossing India
• 43:31
  in three days and United States in seven, could he rely beyond misgiving upon
• 43:37
  accomplishing his task. There were accidents to machinery, the liability of trains to
• 43:44
  run off the line, collisions, bad weather, the blocking up by snow.
• 43:50
  Were not all these against Phileas Fogg. Would he not find himself when
• 43:54
  traveling by steamer in winter at the mercy of the winds and fogs. Is
• 44:00
  it uncommon for the best ocean steamers to be two or three days behind time.
• 44:06
  But a single delay would suffice to fatally break the chain of communication.
• 44:10
  Should Phileas Fogg once miss even by an hour a steamer, he would have
• 44:15
  had to wait for the next, and that would irrevocably render his attempt vain.
• 44:22
  This article made a great deal of noise, and being copied into all
• 44:27
  the papers, seriously depressed the advocates of the rash tourist. Everybody knows that
• 44:34
  England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than
• 44:37
  mere gamblers. To bet is in the English temperament. Not only the members
• 44:43
  of the reform but the general public made heavy wages for or against Phileas Fogg,
• 44:49
  who was set down in the betting books as if he were a race
• 44:52
  horse. Bonds were issued and made their appearance on change Phileas Fogg. Bonds
• 44:59
  were offered at par or at a premium, and a great business was done
• 45:02
  in them. But five days after the article in the Bulletin of the Geographical
• 45:07
  Society appeared, the demand began to subside. Phileas Fogg declined. They were
• 45:15
  offered by packages at first of five, then of ten, until at last
• 45:21
  nobody would take less than twenty fifty a hundred. Lord Albemarle, an elderly
• 45:28
  paralytic gentleman, was now the only advocate of Phileas Fogg left. This noble
• 45:34
  lord, who was fastened to his chair, would have given his fortune to
• 45:37
  be able to make the tour of the world if it took ten years,
• 45:43
  and he bet five thousand pounds on Phileas Fogg. When the folly, as
• 45:47
  well as the uselessness of the adventure, was pointed out to him, he
• 45:52
  contented himself with replying, if a thing is feasible, the first to do
• 45:57
  it ought to be an Englishman. The Fog party dwindled more and more.
• 46:05
  Everybody was going against him, and the bets stood one hundred and fifty and
• 46:09
  two hundred to one, and a week after his departure an incident occurred which
• 46:15
  deprived him of backers at any price. The Commissioner of Police was sitting in
• 46:20
  his office at nine o'clock one evening when the following telegraphic dispatch was put into
• 46:25
  his hands Suez to London, Rowan, Commissioner of Police, Scotland Yard,
• 46:34
  I've found the bank robber Phileas Fogg. Send without delay warrant of arrest to
• 46:39
  Bombay, signed Fix detective. The effect of this dispatch was instantaneous. The
• 46:49
  polished gentleman disappeared to give place to the bank robber his photograph, which was
• 46:53
  hung with those of the rest of the members at the Reform Club, was
• 46:58
  minutely examined, and it betrayed, feature by feature the description of the robber
• 47:04
  which had been provided to the police. The mysterious habits of Phileas Fogg were
• 47:09
  recalled his solitary ways, his sudden departure, and it seemed clear that in
• 47:15
  undertaking a tour round the world on the pretext of a wager, he had
• 47:21
  had no other end in view than to elude the detectives and throw them off
• 47:25
  his track. End of chapter chapter six, in which fix the detective betrays
• 47:34
  a very natural impatience. The circumstances under which this telegraphic dispatch about Phileas Fogg
• 47:44
  was sent were as follows. The steamer Mongolia, belonging to the Peninsular and
• 47:50
  Oriental Company, built of iron, of two thousand, eight hundred tons burden
• 47:55
  and five hundred horsepower, was due at eleven o'clock a m. On Wednesday,
• 48:00
  the ninth of October at Suez. The Mongoli applied regularly between Brendisi and
• 48:06
  Bombay via the Suez Canal, and was one of the fastest steamers belonging to
• 48:10
  the company, always making more than ten knots an hour between Brendisi and Suez,
• 48:16
  and nine and a half between Suez and Bombay. Two men were promenading
• 48:22
  up and down the wharves among the crowd of natives and strangers who were sojourneying
• 48:27
  at this once straggling village, now thanks to the enterprise of Monsieur Lesseps,
• 48:31
  a fast growing town. One was the British consul at Suez, who,
• 48:37
  despite the prophecies of the English government and the unfavorable predictions of Stevenson, was
• 48:44
  in the habit of seeing from his office window English ships daily passing to and
• 48:49
  fro on the Great Canal, by which the old roundabout route from England to
• 48:52
  India by the Cape of Good Hope was abridged by at least a half.
• 48:58
  The other was a small, slight built personage with a nervous, intelligent face
• 49:04
  and bright eyes peering out from under eyebrows which he was incessantly twitching. He
• 49:09
  was just now manifesting unmistakable signs of impatience, nervously pacing up and down,
• 49:16
  and unable to stand still for a moment. This was Fix, one of
• 49:22
  the detectives who had been dispatched from England in search of the bank robber.
• 49:25
  It was his task to narrowly watch every passenger who arrived at Suez, and
• 49:30
  to follow up all who seemed to be suspicious characters or bore a resemblance to
• 49:36
  the description of the criminal, which he had received two days before from the
• 49:39
  police headquarters at London. The detective was evidently inspired by the hope of obtaining
• 49:45
  the splendid reward which would be the prize of success, and awaited with a
• 49:51
  feverish impatience. Easy to understand the arrival of the steamer Mongolia, So you
• 49:59
  say, Consul asked he for the twentieth time, that this steamer is never
• 50:04
  behind time. No, mister Fix, replied the Consul. She was bespoken
• 50:09
  yesterday at port, said, and the rest of the way is of no
• 50:13
  account to such a craft. I repeat that the Mongolia has been in advance
• 50:17
  of the time required by the company's regulations and gain the prize awarded for excess
• 50:23
  of speed. Does she come directly from Brindisi. Directly from Brindisi, she
• 50:30
  takes on the Indian mails there, and she left there Saturday at five p
• 50:36
  m. Have patience, mister Fix, she will not be late. But
• 50:40
  really I don't see how from the description you have you will be able to
• 50:45
  recognize your man even if he is on board the Mongolia. A man rather
• 50:52
  feels the presence of these fellows, Consul, than recognizes them. You must
• 50:55
  have a cent for them, and a cent is like a sixth cens which
• 51:00
  combines hearing, seeing, and smelling. I've arrested more than one of these
• 51:04
  gentlemen in my time, and if my thief is on board, I'll answer
• 51:07
  for it. He'll not slip through my fingers. I hope so, mister
• 51:13
  Fix, for it was a heavy robbery, a magnificent robbery, Console fifty
• 51:19
  five thousand pounds. We don't often have such windfalls. Burglars are getting to
• 51:23
  be so contemptible nowadays A fellow gets hung for a handful of shillings. Mister
• 51:30
  Fix, said the consul. I like your way of talking and hope you'll
• 51:34
  succeed. But I fear you will find it far from easy. Don't you
• 51:38
  see the description which you have there has a singular resemblance to an honest man,
• 51:45
  Console, remarked the detective Dogmatically. Great robbers always resemble honest folks.
• 51:52
  Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is
• 51:57
  to remain honest, otherwise they would be arrested off hand. The artistic thing
• 52:02
  is to unmask honest countenances. Is no like task, I admit, but
• 52:07
  a real art. Mister Fix evidently was not wanting in a tinge of self
• 52:13
  conceit. Little by little the scene on the quay became more animated. Sailors
• 52:20
  of various nations, merchants, shipbrokers, porters, fellaws, bustled to and
• 52:27
  fro, as if the steamer were immediately expected. The weather was clear and
• 52:30
  slightly chilly. The minarets of the town loomed above the houses in the pale
• 52:36
  rays of the sun. A jetty pier some two thousand yards along extended into
• 52:42
  the roadstead. A number of fishing smacks and coasting boats, some retaining the
• 52:47
  fantastic fashion of ancient galleries, were discernible on the red sea. As he
• 52:53
  passed among the busy crowd, Fix, according to Habit, scrutinized the passers
• 52:59
  by with a key rapid glance. It was now half past ten. The
• 53:06
  steamer doesn't come, he exclaimed, as the port clock struck. She can't
• 53:12
  be far off now, returned his companion how long would she stop at Suez?
• 53:19
  Four hours long enough to get in her coal. It is thirteen hundred
• 53:23
  and ten miles from Suez to Aden, at the other end of the Red
• 53:28
  Sea, and she has to take in a fresh coal supply. And does
• 53:31
  she go from Suez directly to Bombay without putting in anywhere? Good? Said
• 53:38
  Fix. If the robber is on board, he will no doubt get off
• 53:42
  at Suez so as to reach the Dutch or French colonies in Asia by some
• 53:46
  other route. He ought to know that he would not be safe an hour
• 53:50
  in India, which is English soil. Unless objected the Consul, he is
• 53:57
  exceptionally shrewd. An English crim you know, is always better concealed in London
• 54:01
  than anywhere else. This observation furnished the detective food for thought, and meanwhile
• 54:09
  the Consul went away to his office. Fix, left alone, was more
• 54:14
  impatient than ever, having a presentiment that the robber was on board the Mongolia.
• 54:20
  If he had indeed left London intending to reach the New World, he
• 54:22
  would naturally take the route via India, which was less watched and more difficult
• 54:28
  to watch than that of the Atlantic. But Fix's reflections were soon interrupted by
• 54:32
  a succession of sharp whistles which announced the arrival of the Mongolia. The porters
• 54:39
  and fellahs rushed down the key, and a dozen boats pushed off from the
• 54:44
  shore to go and meet the steamer. Soon, her gigantic hull appeared,
• 54:49
  passing along between the banks and eleven o'clock struck. As she anchored in the
• 54:53
  road, she brought an unusual number of passengers, some of whom remained on
• 54:59
  decked to scan the picturesque panorama of the town, while the greater part disembarked
• 55:05
  in the boats and landed on the quay. Fix took up a position and
• 55:09
  carefully examined each face and figure which made its appearance. Presently, one of
• 55:15
  the passengers, after vigorously pushing his way through the importunate crowd of porters,
• 55:20
  came up to him and politely asked if he could point out the English consulate,
• 55:24
  at the same time showing a passport which he wished to have visaed.
• 55:30
  Fix instinctively took the passport and with a rapid glance, read the description of
• 55:35
  its bearer. An involuntary motion of surprise nearly escaped him, for the description
• 55:40
  in the passport was identical with that of the bank robber, which he had
• 55:45
  received from Scotland. Yard is this your passport, asked he. No,
• 55:51
  it is my master's, and your master is he stayed on board? But
• 55:58
  he must go to the consuls and person so as to establish his identity.
• 56:02
  Oh is that necessary? Quite indispensable? And where is the consulate? There
• 56:10
  on the corner of the square, said Fix, pointing to a house two
• 56:15
  hundred steps off. I'll go and fetch my master, who won't be much
• 56:20
  pleased. However, to be disturbed, the passenger bowed to Fix and returned
• 56:25
  to the steamer. End of chapter chapter seven, which once more demonstrates the
• 56:32
  uselessness of passports as aids to detectives. The detective passed down the key and
• 56:42
  rapidly made his way to the consul's office, where he was at once admitted
• 56:45
  to the presence of that official. Consul said he, without preamble, I
• 56:51
  have strong reasons for believing that my man is a passenger on the Mongolia,
• 56:55
  and he narrated what had just passed concerning the passport. Well, mister Fix,
• 57:01
  replied the consul. I shall not be sorry to see the rascal's face,
• 57:07
  but perhaps he won't come here. That is, if he is the
• 57:10
  person you suppose him to be. A robber doesn't quite like to leave traces
• 57:15
  of his flight behind him. And besides, he is not obliged to have
• 57:20
  his passport countersigned. If he is as shrewd as I think he is,
• 57:24
  Consul, he will come to have his passport visaed. Yes, passports are
• 57:30
  only good for annoying honest folks and aiding in the flight of rogues. I
• 57:36
  assure you it will be quite the thing for him to do. But I
• 57:38
  hope you will not visa the passport. Why not? If the passport is
• 57:45
  genuine, I have no right to refuse. Still, I must keep this
• 57:49
  man here until I can get a warrant to arrest him from London. Ah,
• 57:53
  that's your lookout, but I cannot. The Consul did not finish his
• 57:59
  sentence, for as he spoke, a knock was heard at the door,
• 58:02
  and two strangers entered, one of whom was the servant whom fix had met
• 58:07
  on the quay. The other, who was his master, held out his
• 58:10
  passport with the request that the Consul would do him the favor to visa it.
• 58:15
  The Consul took the document and carefully read it. Whilst Fix observed,
• 58:20
  or rather devoured the stranger with his eyes from a corner of the room.
• 58:25
  You are, mister Phileas Fogg, said the consul, after reading the passport.
• 58:31
  I am, and this man is your servant. He is a Frenchman
• 58:37
  named Passepartout. You are from London, yes, and you are going to
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  Bombay. Very good, sir. You know that if visa is useless and
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  that no passport is required. I know it, sir, replied Phileas Fogg.
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  But I wish to prove by your visa that I came by Suez.
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  Very well, sir. The consul proceeded to sign and date the passport,
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  after which he added his official seal. Mister Fogg paid the customary fee,
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  coldly bowed, and went out, followed by his servant. Well, queried
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  the detective. Well he looks and acts like a perfectly honest man, replied
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  the consul. Possibly, but that is not the question. Do you think,
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  consol, that this phlegmatic gentleman resembles feature by feature the robber whose description
• 59:36
  I have received. I concede that, but then you know all descriptions.
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  I'll make certain of it, interrupted Fix. The servant seems to me less
• 59:46
  mysterious than the master. Besides, he's a Frenchman and can't help talking.
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  Excuse me for a little while. Conseil Fix started off in search of Passepartout.
• 59:59
  Meanwhile, till mister Fogg, after leaving the consulate, repaired to the
• 1:00:02
  key, gave some orders to Passepartout, went off to the Mongolian a boat
• 1:00:07
  and descended to his cabin. He took up his notebook, which contained the
• 1:00:12
  following memoranda. Left London Wednesday, October second at eight forty five pm.
• 1:00:19
  Reached Paris Thursday, October third at seven twenty am. Left Paris Thursday at
• 1:00:27
  eight forty am. Reached Turin by Mount Sennis Friday, October fourth at six
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  thirty five am. Left Turin Friday at seven twenty am. Arrived at Brindisi
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  Saturday, October fifth at four pm. Sailed on the Mongolia Saturday at five
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  p m. Reached Suez Wednesday, October ninth at eleven a m. Total
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  of hours spent one hundred fifty eight plus or in days six days and a
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  half. These dates were inscribed in an itinerary divided into columns indicating the month,
• 1:01:08
  the day of the month, and the day for the stipulated and actual
• 1:01:13
  arrivals at each principal point parents Brindisi, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore,
• 1:01:20
  Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, New York and London, from
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  the second of October to the twenty first of December, and giving a space
• 1:01:30
  for setting down the gain made or the loss suffered on arrival at each locality.
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  This methodical record thus contained an account of everything needed, and mister Fogg
• 1:01:40
  always knew whether he was behindhand or in advance of his time. On this
• 1:01:45
  Friday, October ninth, he noted his arrival at Suez and observed that he
• 1:01:51
  had as yet neither gained nor lost. He sat down quietly to breakfast in
• 1:01:55
  his cabin, never once thinking of inspecting the town, being one of those
• 1:02:00
  Englishmen who are wont to see foreign countries through the eyes of their domestics.
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  End of chapter chapter eight, in which Passepartout talks rather more, perhaps than
• 1:02:14
  is prudent, Fix soon rejoined Passepartout, who was lounging and looking about on
• 1:02:22
  the quay, as if he did not feel that he at least was obliged
• 1:02:25
  not to see anything. Well, my friend said the detective coming up with
• 1:02:30
  him. Is your passport visit? Ah, it's you, is it,
• 1:02:35
  Monsieur responded Passepartout. Thanks, Yes, the pasport is all right, and
• 1:02:42
  you are looking about you. Yes. But we travel so fast that I
• 1:02:46
  seem to be journeying in a dream. So this is Suez, Yes,
• 1:02:53
  in Egypt, certainly in Egypt, and in Africa, in Africa, in
• 1:03:01
  Africa, repeated Passepartout. You just think, monsieur. I had no idea
• 1:03:07
  that we should go farther than Paris, And all that I saw Paris was
• 1:03:13
  between twenty minutes past seven and twenty minutes before nine in the morning, between
• 1:03:19
  the Northern and the Lyons stations, through the window of a car, and
• 1:03:22
  in a driving rain. How I regret not having seen once more Pere Lachaise
• 1:03:28
  and the circus in the Champselyse. You are in a great hurry, then
• 1:03:34
  I am not. But my master is by the way. I must buy
• 1:03:38
  some shoes and shirts. We came away with our trunks only with a carpet
• 1:03:44
  bag. I will show you an excellent shop forgetting what you want. Really,
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  Monsieur, you are very kind, and they walked off together. Passpartout,
• 1:03:54
  chatting volubly as they went along. Above All said he don't let me
• 1:04:00
  lose the steamer. You have plenty of time. It's only twelve o'clock.
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  Passepartou pulled out his big watch twelve. He exclaimed, why it's only eight
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  minutes before ten? Your watch is slow. My watch a family watch,
• 1:04:20
  monsieur, which has come down from my great grandfather. It doesn't very five
• 1:04:26
  minutes in the year. It is a perfect chronometer. Look you, I
• 1:04:30
  see how it is said, Fix, You have kept London time, which
• 1:04:34
  is two hours behind that of Suez. You ought to regulate your watch at
• 1:04:39
  noon in each country. I regulate my watch never. Well, then it
• 1:04:45
  will not agree with the sun so much. The worse for the sun,
• 1:04:50
  monsieur. The sun will be wrong then, and the worthy fellow returned the
• 1:04:55
  watch to its fob with a defiant gesture. After a few minutes, so
• 1:05:00
  silence, Fix resumed. You left London hastily, then, I rather think
• 1:05:05
  so. Last Friday, at eight o'clock in the evening, Monsieur Fogg came
• 1:05:11
  home from his club, and three quarters of an hour afterwards we were off.
• 1:05:16
  But where is your master going? Always straight ahead? He is going
• 1:05:21
  round the world round the world, cried Fix. Yes, And in eighty
• 1:05:29
  days he says it is on a wager. But between us, I don't
• 1:05:33
  believe a word of it. That wouldn't be common sense. There's something else
• 1:05:39
  in the wind. Ah. Mister Fogg is a character, is he?
• 1:05:45
  I should say he was? Is he rich? No doubt? For he
• 1:05:50
  is carrying an enormous son in brand new banknotes with him, and he doesn't
• 1:05:56
  spare the money on the way either. He has offered a large reward to
• 1:06:00
  the engineer of the Mongolia if he gets us to Bombay well in advance of
• 1:06:03
  time. And you have known your master a long time, why no,
• 1:06:11
  I entered his service the very day we left London. The effect of these
• 1:06:16
  replies upon the already suspicious and excited detective may be imagined. The hasty departure
• 1:06:23
  from London soon after the robbery, the large sum carried by mister Fogg,
• 1:06:28
  his eagerness to reach distant countries, the pretext of an eccentric and foolhardy bet
• 1:06:34
  All confirmed Fix in his theory. He continued to pump poor passepartout and learned
• 1:06:41
  that he really knew little or nothing of his master, who lived a solitary
• 1:06:45
  existence in London, was said to be rich, though no one knew whence
• 1:06:49
  came as riches, and was mysterious and impenetrable in his affairs and habits.
• 1:06:56
  Fix felt sure that Phileas Fogg would not land sue As, but was really
• 1:07:00
  going on to Bombay? Is Bombay far from here, asked Passepartout. Pretty
• 1:07:08
  far? It is a ten days voyage by sea? And in what country
• 1:07:14
  is Bombay? India? In Asia? Certainly the deuce. I was going
• 1:07:23
  to tell you that there's one thing that worries me my burner, what burner,
• 1:07:29
  my guests burner which I forgot to turn off, and which is at
• 1:07:32
  this moment burning at my expense. I have calculated, monsieur, that I
• 1:07:38
  lose two shillings every four and twenty hours, exactly sixpence more than I earn.
• 1:07:45
  And you will understand that the longer our journey did Fix pay any attention
• 1:07:50
  to Passepartout's trouble about the gas, It is not probable he was not listening,
• 1:07:57
  but was cogitating a project pass Partout, And he had now reached the
• 1:08:01
  shop where Fix left his companion to make his purchases after recommending him not to
• 1:08:06
  miss the steamer, and hurried back to the consulate. Now that he was
• 1:08:12
  fully convinced Fix had quite recovered his equanimity, Consul said he I have no
• 1:08:18
  longer any doubt I have spotted my man. He passes himself off as an
• 1:08:24
  odd stick who is going round the world in eighty days. Then he's a
• 1:08:29
  sharp fellow, returned the Consul, and counts on returning to London after putting
• 1:08:34
  the police of the two countries off his track. We'll see about that,
• 1:08:41
  replied Fix. But are you not mistaken? I am not mistaken. Why
• 1:08:49
  was this robber so anxious to prove by the visa that he had passed through
• 1:08:54
  Suez? Why? I have no idea, but listen to me, he
• 1:09:00
  reported in a few words. The most important parts of his conversation with passepartout.
• 1:09:06
  In short, said, the consul appearances are wholly against this man.
• 1:09:13
  And what are you going to do? Send a dispatch to London for a
• 1:09:17
  warrant of arrest to be dispatched instantly to Bombay, take passage on board the
• 1:09:23
  Mongolia, follow my rogue to India, and there on English ground, arrest
• 1:09:29
  him politely with my warrant in my hand and my hand on his shoulder.
• 1:09:33
  Having uttered these words with the cool, careless air, the detective took leave
• 1:09:39
  of the consul and repaired to the telegraph office, whence he sent the dispatch
• 1:09:44
  which we have seen to the London Police Office. A quarter of an hour
• 1:09:47
  later found Fix with a small bag in his hand, proceeding on board the
• 1:09:51
  Mongolia, and ere many moments longer the noble steamer rode out at full steam
• 1:09:59
  upon the waters of the Red Sea. End of chapter chapter nine, in
• 1:10:04
  which the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean proved propitious to the designs of Phileas
• 1:10:10
  Fogg. The distance between Suez and Aden is precisely thirteen hundred and ten miles,
• 1:10:20
  and the regulations of the company allow the steamers one hundred and thirty eight
• 1:10:26
  hours in which to traverse it. The Mongolia, thanks to the vigorous exertions
• 1:10:30
  of the engineer, seemed likely, so rapid was her speed, to reach
• 1:10:35
  her destination considerably within that time. The greater part of the passengers from Brindisi
• 1:10:42
  were bound for India, some for Bombay, others for Calcutta. By way
• 1:10:45
  of Bombay, the nearest route thither now that a railway crosses the Indian Peninsula.
• 1:10:53
  Among the passengers was a number of officials and military officers of various grades,
• 1:10:59
  the latter being either attached to the regular British forces or commanding the Sepoy
• 1:11:03
  troops and receiving high salaries ever since the Central government had assumed the powers of
• 1:11:09
  the East India Company. For the sub lieutenants get two hundred and eighty pounds,
• 1:11:15
  brigadiers twenty four hundred pounds, and generals of divisions four thousand pounds.
• 1:11:21
  What with the military men, a number of rich young Englishmen on their travels,
• 1:11:27
  and the hospitable efforts of the purser, the time passed quickly on the
• 1:11:30
  Mongolia. The best of fare was spread upon the cabin tables at breakfast,
• 1:11:35
  launch, dinner, and the eight o'clock supper, and the ladies scrupulously changed
• 1:11:41
  their toilets twice a day, and the hours were whirled away when the sea
• 1:11:45
  was tranquil with music, dancing and games. But the Red Sea is full
• 1:11:50
  of caprice and often boisterous, like most long and narrow gulfs. When the
• 1:11:56
  wind came from the African or Asian coast, the Mongololio, with her long
• 1:12:00
  hull, rolled fearfully. Then the ladies speedily disappeared. Below the pianos were
• 1:12:06
  silent, singing and dancing suddenly ceased. Yet the good ship plowed straight on,
• 1:12:13
  unretarded by wind or wave, towards the straits of bab El Mandeb.
• 1:12:18
  What was Phileas Fogg doing all this time? It might be thought that,
• 1:12:24
  in his anxiety, he would be constantly watching the changes of the wind,
• 1:12:28
  the disorderly raging of the billows, every chance in short, which might force
• 1:12:33
  the Mongolia to slacken her speed and thus interrupt his journey. But if he
• 1:12:40
  thought of these possibilities, he did not betray the fact by any outward sign.
• 1:12:46
  Always the same impassable member of the reform Club, whom no incident could
• 1:12:51
  surprise, as unvarying as the ship's chronometers, and seldom having the curiosity even
• 1:12:58
  to go upon the deck, he passed through the memorable scenes of the Red
• 1:13:01
  Sea with cold indifference, did not care to recognize the historic towns and villages
• 1:13:08
  which along its borders raised their picturesque outlines against the sky, and betrayed no
• 1:13:14
  fear of the dangers of the Arabic gulf, which the old historians always spoke
• 1:13:18
  of with horror, and upon which the ancient navigators never ventured without propitiating the
• 1:13:25
  gods by ample sacrifices. How did this eccentric personage pass his time on the
• 1:13:30
  Mongolia. He made his four hearty meals every day, regardless of the most
• 1:13:36
  persistent rolling and pitching on the part of the steamer, and he played whist
• 1:13:42
  indefatigably, for he had found partners as enthusiastic in the game as himself,
• 1:13:47
  a tax collector on the way to his post at Goa. The Reverend Decimus
• 1:13:54
  Smith, returning to his paraship Bombay, and a brigadier general of the English
• 1:13:59
  Army who was about to rejoin his brigade at Benares, made up the party,
• 1:14:03
  and with mister Fogg, played whist by the hour together in absorbing silence.
• 1:14:10
  As for passepartout, he too had escaped sea sickness, and took his
• 1:14:15
  meals conscientiously in the forward cabin. He rather enjoyed the voyage, for he
• 1:14:19
  was well fed and well lodged, took great interest in the scenes through which
• 1:14:24
  they were passing, and consoled himself with the delusion that his master's whim would
• 1:14:30
  end at Bombay. He was pleased on the day after leaving Suez to find
• 1:14:34
  on deck the obliging person with whom he had walked and chatted on the keys.
• 1:14:40
  If I am not mistaken, said he, approaching this person with his
• 1:14:45
  most amiable smile. You are the gentleman who so kindly volunteered to guide me
• 1:14:49
  at Suez. Ah. I quite recognize you. You are the servant of
• 1:14:55
  the strange Englishman. Just so, Monsieur Fix. Monsieur Fix resumed, passepartout.
• 1:15:05
  I'm charmed to find you on board. Where are you bound? Like
• 1:15:11
  you to Bombay? That's capital. Have you made this trip before several times?
• 1:15:17
  I am one of the agents of the Peninsular Company. Then you know
• 1:15:23
  India? Why yes, replied Fix, who spoke cautiously. A curious place,
• 1:15:30
  this India, Oh, very curious Mosques, minarets, temples, fakirs,
• 1:15:36
  pagodas, tigers, snakes, elephants. I hope you have ample time
• 1:15:42
  to see the sights. I hope so, Monsieur Fix, you see A
• 1:15:46
  man of sound sense ought not to spend his life jumping from a steamer,
• 1:15:50
  upon a railway train and from a railway train upon a steamer, again,
• 1:15:56
  pretending to make the tour of the world in eighty days. No, all
• 1:16:00
  these gymnastics, you may be sure, will cease at Bombay. And mister
• 1:16:05
  Fogg is getting on well, asked Fix, in the most natural tone in
• 1:16:11
  the world. Quite well, And I too, I eat like a famished
• 1:16:15
  ogre. It is the sea air. But I never see your master on
• 1:16:20
  deck. Never. He hasn't the least curiosity. Do you know, mister
• 1:16:28
  Passepartout, that this pretended tour in eighty days may conceal some secret errand perhaps
• 1:16:33
  a diplomatic mission. Faith, Monsieur Fix, I assure you I know nothing
• 1:16:41
  about it, nor would I give half a crown to find out. After
• 1:16:45
  this meeting, Passepartout and Fix got into the habit of chatting together, the
• 1:16:49
  latter making it a point to gain the worthy man's confidence. He frequently offered
• 1:16:56
  him a glass of whiskey or pale ale in the steamer bar room, which
• 1:17:00
  Passpartu never failed to accept with graceful alacrity, mentally pronouncing Fixed the best of
• 1:17:06
  good fellows. Meanwhile, the Mongolia was pushing forward rapidly. On the thirteenth
• 1:17:13
  Mocha surrounded by its ruined walls, whereon date trees were growing was sighted,
• 1:17:18
  and on the mountains beyond were spied vast coffee fields. Pass partout was ravished
• 1:17:25
  to behold the celebrated place, and thought that with its circular walls and dismantled
• 1:17:30
  fort, it looked like an immense coffee cup and saucer. The following night
• 1:17:35
  they passed through the Strait of bab El Mandeb, which means in Arabic the
• 1:17:40
  bridge of tears, and the next day they put in its steamer point,
• 1:17:45
  northwest of Aiden Harbor to take in coal. This matter of fueling steamers is
• 1:17:50
  a serious one. At such distances from the coal mines. It cost the
• 1:17:55
  Peninsular Company some eight hundred thousand pounds a year. In these distant seas,
• 1:18:01
  coal is worth three or four pounds sterling a ton. The Mongolia had still
• 1:18:06
  sixteen hundred and fifty miles to traverse before reaching Bombay, and was obliged to
• 1:18:14
  remain four hours at steamer Point to coal up. But this delay, as
• 1:18:18
  it was foreseen, did not affect Phileas Fogg's program. Besides, the Mongolia
• 1:18:25
  instead of reaching Aiden on the morning of the fifteenth, when she was due
• 1:18:29
  arrived there on the evening of the fourteenth, a gain of fifteen hours.
• 1:18:33
  Mister Fogg and his servant went ashore at Aiden to have the passport again visaed.
• 1:18:40
  Fix unobserved followed them. The visa procured, mister Fogg returned on board
• 1:18:45
  to resume his former habits, while Passepartout, according to custom sauntered about among
• 1:18:51
  the mixed population of Somalis, Banyans, Parsees, Jews, Arabs and Europeans
• 1:18:59
  who comprised the twenty five thousand inhabitants of Aiden. He gazed with wonder upon
• 1:19:04
  the fortifications which make this place the Gibraltar of the Indian Ocean, and the
• 1:19:10
  vast cisterns where the English engineers were still at work two thousand years after the
• 1:19:15
  engineers of Solomon. Very curious, Very curious, said passepartout to himself.
• 1:19:24
  On returning to the steamer, I see that it is by no means useless
• 1:19:28
  to travel if a man wants to see something new. At six p m.
• 1:19:33
  The Mongolias slowly moved out of the roadstead and was soon once more on
• 1:19:38
  the Indian Ocean. She had one hundred and sixty eight hours in which to
• 1:19:42
  reach Bombay, and the sea was favorable, the wind being to the northwest,
• 1:19:47
  and all sails aiding the engine. The steamer rolled but little. The
• 1:19:53
  ladies in fresh toilets reappeared on deck, and the singing and dancing were resumed.
• 1:19:59
  The trip was being accomplished most successfully, and Passepartout was enchanted with a
• 1:20:03
  congenial companion which chance had secured him, in the person of the delightful fix.
• 1:20:10
  On Sunday, October twentieth, towards noon they came in sight of the
• 1:20:15
  Indian coast. Two hours later the pilot came on board. A range of
• 1:20:19
  hills lay against the sky in the horizon, and soon the rows of palms
• 1:20:24
  which adorned Bombay came distinctly into view. The steamer entered the road formed by
• 1:20:30
  the islands in the bay, and at half past four she hauled up at
• 1:20:33
  the keys of Bombay. Phileas Fogg was in the act of finishing the thirty
• 1:20:40
  third rubber of the voyage, and his partner and himself, having by a
• 1:20:44
  bold stroke, captured all thirteen of the tricks, concluded this fine campaign with
• 1:20:49
  a brilliant victory. The Mongolia was due at Bombay on the twenty second she
• 1:20:56
  arrived on the twentieth. This was again to Phileas Fogg of two days since
• 1:21:00
  his departure from London, and he calmly entered the fact in the itinerary in
• 1:21:05
  the column of Gains end of chapter chapter ten, in which passepartout is only
• 1:21:14
  too glad to get off with the loss of his shoes. Everybody knows that
• 1:21:20
  the great reverse triangle of land, with its base in the north and its
• 1:21:25
  apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square
• 1:21:30
  miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions
• 1:21:36
  of souls. The British Crown exercises a real and despotic dominion over the larger
• 1:21:44
  portion of this vast country, and has a Governor General stationed deck Calcutta,
• 1:21:48
  governors at Madras, Bombay and m Bengal, and a Lieutenant governor at Agra.
• 1:21:56
  But British India, properly so called only in races seven hundred thousand square
• 1:22:01
  miles and a population of from one hundred to one hundred ten millions of inhabitants.
• 1:22:08
  A considerable portion of India is still free from British authority, and there
• 1:22:13
  are certain ferocious Rajas in the interior who are absolutely independent. The celebrated East
• 1:22:19
  India Company was all powerful from seventeen fifty six, when the English first gained
• 1:22:25
  a foothold on the spot where now stands the city of Madras, down to
• 1:22:30
  the time of the Great Sepoy Insurrection. It gradually annexed province after province,
• 1:22:35
  purchasing them of the native chiefs, whom its seldom paid, and appointed the
• 1:22:41
  Governor General and his subordinates civil and military. But the East India Company has
• 1:22:46
  now passed away, leaving the British possessions in India directly under the control of
• 1:22:51
  the Crown. The aspect of the country, as well as the manners and
• 1:22:57
  distinctions of race, is daily chained. Formerly one was obliged to travel in
• 1:23:02
  India by the old cumbrous methods of going on foot or on horseback in palanquin's
• 1:23:09
  or unwieldy coaches. Now, fast steamboats ply on the Indus and the Ganges,
• 1:23:15
  and a great railway with branch lines joining the main line at many points
• 1:23:19
  on its route, traverses the peninsula from Bombay to Calcutta in three days.
• 1:23:26
  This railway does not run in a direct line across India. The distance between
• 1:23:30
  Bombay and Calcutta, as the bird flies is only from one thousand to eleven
• 1:23:36
  hundred miles, but the deflections of the road increase this distance by more than
• 1:23:42
  a third. The general route of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway is as follows.
• 1:23:48
  Leaving Bombay, it passes through Salsette, crossing to the continent opposite Tenna,
• 1:23:55
  goes over the chain of the Western Gouts, runs thence north northeast as
• 1:24:00
  far as Burhampur, skirts the nearly independent territory of Bundelkund, ascends to Allahabad,
• 1:24:09
  turns thence easterly, meeting the Ganges at Benaris, then departs from the
• 1:24:14
  river a little and descending southeastward by Berdivan and the French town of Chanternagore has
• 1:24:20
  its terminus at Calcutta. The passengers of the Mongolia went ashore at half past
• 1:24:27
  four p m. At exactly eight the train would start for Calcutta. Mister
• 1:24:32
  Fogg, after bidding goodbye to his whist partners, left the steamer, gave
• 1:24:38
  his servant several errands to do, urged it upon him to be at the
• 1:24:42
  station promptly at eight, and with his regular step, which beat to the
• 1:24:46
  second like an astronomical clock, directed his steps to the passport office. As
• 1:24:54
  for the wonders of Bombay, its famous city hall, its splendid library,
• 1:25:00
  shorts and docks, its bazaars, mosques, synagogues, its Armenian churches,
• 1:25:05
  and the noble Pagoda on Malabar Hill, with its two polygonal towers, he
• 1:25:11
  cared not a straw to see them. He would not deign to examine even
• 1:25:15
  the masterpieces of Elaphanta, or the mysterious Hypergea concealed southeast from the docks,
• 1:25:23
  or those fine remains of Buddhist architecture, the Canarian grottos of the island of
• 1:25:28
  South Set. Having transacted his business at the passport office, Phileas Fogg repaired
• 1:25:34
  quietly to the railway station, where he ordered dinner. Among the dishes served
• 1:25:40
  up to him, the landlord especially recommended a certain giblet of native rabbit,
• 1:25:45
  on which he prided himself. Mister Fogg accordingly tasted the dish, but,
• 1:25:50
  despite its spiced sauce, found it far from a palatable. He rang for
• 1:25:57
  the landlord, and on his appearance said, fixing his clear eyes upon him.
• 1:26:02
  Is this rabbit, sir, Yes, my lord, the rogue boldly
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  replied, rabbit from the jungles. And this rabbit did not mew when he
• 1:26:14
  was killed. Me, oh, my lord, what a rabbit mule.
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  I swear to you be so good, landlord as not to swear. But
• 1:26:24
  remember this. Cats were formerly considered in India as sacred animals. That was
• 1:26:30
  a good time for the cats, my lord, perhaps for the travelers as
• 1:26:36
  well, after which mister Fogg quietly continued his dinner. Fix had gone on
• 1:26:45
  shore shortly after mister Fogg, and his first destination was the headquarters of the
• 1:26:48
  Bombay Police. He made himself known as a London detective, told his business
• 1:26:55
  at Bombay and the position of affairs relative to the supposed and nervously asked if
• 1:27:01
  a warrant had arrived from London, it had not reached the office. Indeed,
• 1:27:08
  there had not yet been time for it to arrive. Fix was sorely
• 1:27:12
  disappointed and tried to obtain an order of arrest from the Director of the Bombay
• 1:27:16
  Police. This the director refused, as the matter concerned the London office,
• 1:27:23
  which alone could legally deliver the warrant. Fix did not insist, and was
• 1:27:29
  fain to resign himself to await the arrival of the important document, But he
• 1:27:33
  was determined not to lose sight of the mysterious rogue as long as he stayed
• 1:27:38
  in Bombay. He did not doubt for a moment any more than Passepartout that
• 1:27:43
  Phileas Fogg would remain there at least until it was time for the warrant to
• 1:27:47
  arrive. Pass Partout, however, had no sooner heard his master's orders on
• 1:27:53
  leaving the Mongolia than he saw at once that they were to leave Bombay as
• 1:27:58
  they had done Suez and Paris, and that the journey would be extended at
• 1:28:01
  least as far as Calcutta and perhaps beyond that place. He began to ask
• 1:28:06
  himself if this bet that mister Fogg talked about was not really in good earnest,
• 1:28:13
  and whether his fate was not in truth forcing him, despite his love
• 1:28:16
  of repose around the world in eighty days. Having purchased the usual quota of
• 1:28:24
  shirts and shoes, he took a leisurely promenade about the streets where crowds of
• 1:28:29
  people of many nationalities Europeans, Persians with pointed caps, Banyas with round turbans,
• 1:28:38
  Cindy's with square bonnets, Parsis with black miters, and long robed Armenians
• 1:28:45
  were collected. It happened to be a day of a Parsi festival. These
• 1:28:49
  descendants of the sect of Zoroaster, the most thrifty, civilized, intelligent,
• 1:28:56
  and austere of the East Indians, among whom are counted the richest native merchants
• 1:29:00
  of Bombay, were celebrating a sort of religious carnival, with processions and shows,
• 1:29:06
  in the midst of which Indian dancing girls, clothed in rose colored gauze,
• 1:29:12
  looped up with gold and silver, danced airily but with perfect modesty,
• 1:29:17
  to the sound of viols and the clanging of tambourines. It is needless to
• 1:29:23
  say that Passepartout watched these curious ceremonies with staring eyes and gaping mouth, and
• 1:29:29
  that his countenance was that of the greenest booby imaginable. Unhappily, for his
• 1:29:34
  master as well as himself, his curiosity drew him unconsciously farther off than he
• 1:29:40
  intended to go. At last, having seen the Parsi carnival wind away in
• 1:29:45
  the distance, he was turning his steps towards the station when he happened to
• 1:29:49
  a spy the splendid Pagoda on Malabar Hill, and was seized with an irresistible
• 1:29:56
  desire to see its interior. He was quite ignorant that it was forbidden to
• 1:30:00
  Christians to enter certain Indian temples, and that even the faithful must not go
• 1:30:05
  in without first leaving their shoes outside the door. It may be said here
• 1:30:11
  that the wise policy of the British government severely punishes a disregard of the practices
• 1:30:15
  of the native religions. Passepartout, however, thinking no harm, went in
• 1:30:23
  like a simple tourist, and was soon lost in admiration of the splendid Brahmin
• 1:30:27
  ornamentation which everywhere met his eyes, When all of a sudden he found himself
• 1:30:31
  sprawling on the sacred flagging. He looked up to behold three enraged priests,
• 1:30:38
  who forthwith fell upon him, tore off his shoes, and began to beat
• 1:30:43
  him with loud, savage exclamations. The agile Frenchman was soon upon his feet
• 1:30:48
  again and lost no time in knocking down two of his long gowned adversaries with
• 1:30:54
  his fists and a vigorous application of his toes, then rushing out of the
• 1:30:59
  pagoda as fast as his legs could carry him. He soon escaped the third
• 1:31:03
  priest by mingling with the crowd in the streets. At five minutes before eight,
• 1:31:10
  Passepartout, hatless, shoeless, and having in the squabble lost his package
• 1:31:15
  of shirts and shoes, rushed breathlessly into the station. Fix, who had
• 1:31:20
  followed mister Fogg to the station and saw that he was really going to leave
• 1:31:25
  Bombay, was there upon the platform. He had resolved to follow the supposed
• 1:31:30
  robber to Calcutta and farther if necessary. Passepartout did not observe the detective,
• 1:31:38
  who stood in an obscure corner, but Fixed heard him relate his adventures in
• 1:31:43
  a few words to mister Fogg. I hope this will not happen again,
• 1:31:48
  said Phileas Fogg coldly. As he got into the train. Poor Passepartout,
• 1:31:54
  quite crestfallen, followed his master without a word. Fix was on the point
• 1:31:59
  of a NDErs during another carriage when an idea struck him which induced him to
• 1:32:03
  alter his plan. No, I'll stay, muttered he an offence has been
• 1:32:10
  committed on Indian soil. I've got my man. Just then the locomotive gave
• 1:32:16
  a sharp screech, and the train passed out into the darkness of the night.
• 1:32:24
  End of chapter chapter eleven, in which Phileas Fogg secures a curious means
• 1:32:30
  of conveyance at a fabulous price. The train had started punctually. Among the
• 1:32:39
  passengers were a number of officers, government officials, and opium and indigo merchants
• 1:32:45
  whose business called them to the eastern coast. Passpartiu rode in the same carriage
• 1:32:50
  with his master, and a third passenger occupied a seat opposite to them.
• 1:32:55
  This was Sir Francis Cromarty, one of mister Fogg's WISP partners on the Mongolia,
• 1:33:00
  now on his way to join his corps at Benars. Sir Francis was
• 1:33:04
  a tall, fair man of fifty who had greatly distinguished himself in the last
• 1:33:09
  Sepoy Revolt. He made India his home, only paying brief visits to England
• 1:33:15
  at rare intervals, and was almost as familiar as a native with the customs,
• 1:33:19
  history, and character of India and its people. But Phileas Fogg,
• 1:33:25
  who was not traveling but only describing a circumference, took no pains to inquire
• 1:33:30
  into these subjects. He was a solid body traversing at orbit around the terrestrial
• 1:33:35
  globe according to the laws of rational mechanics. He was at this moment calculating
• 1:33:42
  in his mind the number of hours spent since his departure from London, and
• 1:33:47
  had it been in his nature to make a useless demonstration, would have rubbed
• 1:33:51
  his hands for satisfaction. Sir Francis Cromarty had observed the oddity of his traveling
• 1:33:58
  companion, although the only opportunity he had for studying him had been while he
• 1:34:02
  was dealing the cards and between two rubbers, and questioned himself whether a human
• 1:34:09
  heart really beat beneath this cold exterior, and whether Phileas Fogg had any sense
• 1:34:15
  of the beauties of nature. The Brigadier General was free to mentally confess that
• 1:34:20
  of all the eccentric persons he had ever met, none was comparable to this
• 1:34:26
  product of the exact sciences. Phileas Fogg had not concealed from Sir Francis his
• 1:34:31
  design of going round the world, nor the circumstances under which he set out,
• 1:34:36
  and the General only saw in the wager a useless eccentricity and a lack
• 1:34:42
  of sound common sense. In the way this strange gentleman was going on,
• 1:34:46
  he would leave the world without having done any good to himself or anybody else.
• 1:34:53
  An hour after leaving Bombay, the train had passed the viaducts and the
• 1:34:57
  island of Salsette, and had got it to the open country. At Calayan,
• 1:35:01
  they reached the junction of the branch line which descends towards southeastern India by
• 1:35:06
  Candala and Puna, and passing Powell, they entered the defiles of the mountains,
• 1:35:15
  with their basalt bases and their summits crowned with thick and verdant forests.
• 1:35:20
  Phileas Fogg and Sir Francis Cromarty exchanged a few words from time to time,
• 1:35:26
  and now Sir Francis, reviving the conversation observed some years ago, Mister Fogg,
• 1:35:33
  you would have met with a delay at this point which would probably have
• 1:35:36
  lost you your wager. How So, Sir Francis, because the railway stopped
• 1:35:45
  at the base of these mountains, which the passengers were obliged to cross in
• 1:35:49
  palanquins or on ponies, to Candala on the other side, such a delay
• 1:35:56
  would not have deranged my plans. In the least, mister Fogg, I
• 1:36:00
  have constantly foreseen the likelihood of certain obstacles. But mister Fogg, pursued,
• 1:36:09
  Sir Francis, you're on the risk of having some difficulty about this worthy fellow's
• 1:36:14
  adventure at the Pagoda. Passepartout his feet comfortably wrapped in his traveling blanket,
• 1:36:20
  was sound asleep, and did not dream that anybody was talking about him.
• 1:36:27
  The government is very severe upon that kind of offense. It takes particular care
• 1:36:32
  that the religious customs of the Indians should be respected. And if your servant
• 1:36:39
  were caught, very well, Sir Francis replied mister Fogg. If he had
• 1:36:45
  been caught, he would have been condemned and punished, and then would have
• 1:36:50
  quietly returned to Europe. I don't see how this affair could have delayed his
• 1:36:55
  master. The conversation fell again during the night. The train left the mountains
• 1:37:01
  behind and passed Nassek, and the next day proceeded over the flat, well
• 1:37:06
  cultivated country of the Candiche, with its straggling villages, above which rose the
• 1:37:12
  minarets of the Pagodas. This fertile territory is watered by numerous small rivers and
• 1:37:17
  limpid streams, mostly tributaries of the Godavari. Passepartout on, waking and looking
• 1:37:26
  out, could not realize that he was actually crossing India in a railway train.
• 1:37:31
  The locomotive, guided by an English engineer and fed with English coal,
• 1:37:36
  threw out its smoke upon cotton, coffee, nutmeg, clove and pepper plantations,
• 1:37:43
  while the steam curled in spirals round groups of palm trees, in the
• 1:37:46
  midst of which were seen picturesque bungalows, viharis, a sort of abandoned monasteries
• 1:37:55
  and marvelous temples enriched by the exhaustless ornamentation of Indian architect Then they came upon
• 1:38:01
  vast tracts extending to the horizon with jungles inhabited by snakes and tigers, which
• 1:38:09
  fled at the noise of the train, succeeded by forests penetrated by the railway,
• 1:38:15
  and still haunted by elephants, which, with pensive eyes gazed at the
• 1:38:19
  train as it passed. The travelers crossed beyond Miligom, the fatal country so
• 1:38:26
  often stained with blood by the sectaries of the goddess Kali. Not far off
• 1:38:31
  rose Elora, with its graceful Pagodas and the famous Arungabad, capital of the
• 1:38:38
  ferocious auring Zeb, now the chief town of one of the detached provinces of
• 1:38:44
  the Kingdom of the Nizam. It was thereabouts that Ferengia, the Thugee,
• 1:38:48
  chief king of the Stranglers, held his sway. These Ruffians, united by
• 1:38:55
  a secret bond, strangled victims of every age in honor of the goddess Death,
• 1:39:00
  without ever shedding blood. There was a period when this part of the
• 1:39:04
  country could scarcely be traveled over without corpses being found in every direction. The
• 1:39:11
  English government had succeeded in greatly diminishing these murders, though the thugies still exist
• 1:39:16
  and pursue the exercise of their horrible rights. At half past twelve, the
• 1:39:23
  trains stopped at Burhampur, where Passepartout was able to purchase some Indian slippers ornamented
• 1:39:30
  with false pearls, in which with evident vanity he proceeded to encase his feet.
• 1:39:35
  The travelers made a hasty breakfast and started off for Assergur, after skirting
• 1:39:42
  for a little the banks of the small river Tapti, which empties into the
• 1:39:45
  Gulf of Cambray near Surat Passepartout was now plunged into absorbing revery. Up to
• 1:39:54
  his arrival at Bombay, he had entertained hopes that their journey would end there.
• 1:39:59
  But now that they were plainly whirling across India at full speed, a
• 1:40:03
  sudden change had come over the spirit of his dreams. His old vagabond nature
• 1:40:09
  returned to him, The fantastic ideas of his youth once more took possession of
• 1:40:15
  him. He came to regard his master's project as intended in good earnest,
• 1:40:19
  believed in the reality of the bet, and therefore in the tour of the
• 1:40:24
  world and the necessity of making it without fail within the designated period. Already
• 1:40:30
  he began to worry about possible delays and accidents which might happen on the way.
• 1:40:36
  He recognized himself as being personally interested in the wager, and trembled at
• 1:40:43
  the thought that he might have been the means of losing it by his unpardonable
• 1:40:46
  folly of the night before. Being much less cool headed than mister Fogg,
• 1:40:51
  he was much more restless, counting and recounting the days passed over uttering maledictions.
• 1:40:59
  When the train stopped and accusing it of sluggishness, and mentally blaming mister
• 1:41:04
  Fogg for not having bribed the engineer. The worthy fellow was ignorant that while
• 1:41:10
  it was possible by such means to hasten the rate of a steamer, it
• 1:41:14
  could not be done on the railway. The train entered the defiles of the
• 1:41:18
  Sutpoor Mountains, which separate the Condiche from Buldoukound. Towards evening the next day,
• 1:41:27
  Sir Francis Cromarty asked pass Partout what time it was, to which,
• 1:41:30
  on consulting his watch, he replied that it was three in the morning.
• 1:41:35
  This famous time piece, always regulated on the Greenwich meridian, which was now
• 1:41:42
  some seventy seven degrees westward, was at least four hours slow. Sir Francis
• 1:41:47
  corrected past Partout's time, whereupon the latter made the same remark that he had
• 1:41:53
  done to fix, and upon the general insisting that the watch should be regulated
• 1:41:58
  in each new meridian, since he was constantly going eastward, that is,
• 1:42:02
  in the face of the sun, and therefore the days were shorter by four
• 1:42:06
  minutes for each degree gone over, Passepartout obstinately refused to alter his watch,
• 1:42:13
  which he kept at London time. It was an innocent delusion which could harm
• 1:42:17
  no one. The train stopped at eight o'clock in the midst of a glade
• 1:42:24
  some fifteen miles beyond Rothal, where there were several bungalows and workmen's cabins.
• 1:42:30
  The conductor, passing along the carriages, shouted, passengers will get out here.
• 1:42:36
  Phileas Fogg looked at Sir Francis Cromarty for an explanation, but the General
• 1:42:42
  could not tell what meant a halt in the midst of this forest of dates,
• 1:42:45
  and Acacius passepartout, not less surprised, rushed out and speedily returned,
• 1:42:53
  crying, monsieur no more railway. What do you mean, asked Sir Francis.
• 1:43:00
  I mean to say that the train isn't going on. The General at
• 1:43:04
  once stepped out, while Phileas Fogg calmly followed him, and they proceeded together
• 1:43:11
  to the conductor. Where are we, asked Sir Francis, at the hamlet
• 1:43:16
  of Colby? Do we stop here? Certainly the railway isn't finished. What
• 1:43:26
  not finished? No, there's still a matter of fifty miles to be laid
• 1:43:30
  from here to Allahabad, where the line begins again. But the papers announced
• 1:43:36
  the opening of the railway throughout. What would you have, officer? The
• 1:43:43
  papers were mistaken, Yet your self tickets from Bombay to Calcutta, retorted Sir
• 1:43:49
  Francis, who was growing warm. No doubt, replied the conductor. But
• 1:43:56
  the passengers know that they must provide means of transport for themselves from Colby to
• 1:44:01
  Allahabad. Sir Francis was furious. Passepartout would willingly have knocked the conductor down,
• 1:44:09
  and did not dare to look at his master. Sir Francis said mister
• 1:44:15
  Fogg quietly, we will if you please look about for some means of conveyance
• 1:44:20
  to Allahabad. Mister Fogg, this is a delay greatly to your disadvantage.
• 1:44:29
  No, Sir Francis, it was foreseen. What you knew that the way
• 1:44:35
  not at all? But I knew that some obstacle or other would sooner or
• 1:44:40
  later arise on my route. Nothing therefore is lost. I have two days,
• 1:44:45
  which I have already gained to sacrifice. A steamer leaves Calcutta for Hong
• 1:44:51
  Kong at noon on the twenty fifth. This is the twenty second, and
• 1:44:57
  we shall reach Calcutta in time there was nothing to say to so confident a
• 1:45:01
  response. It was but too true that the railway came to a termination at
• 1:45:08
  this point. The papers were like some watches, which have a way of
• 1:45:12
  getting too fast, and had been premature in their announcement of the completion of
• 1:45:15
  the line. The greater part of the travelers were aware of this interruption,
• 1:45:21
  and leaving the train, they began to engage such vehicles as the village could
• 1:45:26
  provide. Four wheeled packagaries, wagons drawn by zebus, carriages that looked like
• 1:45:32
  perambulating pagodas, palanquins, ponies and what not. Mister Fogg and Sir Francis
• 1:45:39
  Cromarty, after searching the village from end to end, came back without having
• 1:45:44
  found anything. I shall go afoot, said Phileas Fogg. Passepartout, who
• 1:45:51
  had now rejoined his master, made a wry grimace as he thought of his
• 1:45:56
  magnificent but too frail Indian shoes. Happily, he too had been looking about
• 1:46:01
  him, and after a moment's hesitation, said monsieur, I think I have
• 1:46:06
  found a means of conveyance. What an elephant? An elephant that belongs to
• 1:46:14
  an Indian who lives, but a hundred steps from here. Let's go and
• 1:46:18
  see the elephant, replied mister Fogg. They soon reached a small hut,
• 1:46:24
  near which, enclosed within some high palings, was the animal in question.
• 1:46:30
  An Indian came out of the hut and, at their request conducted them within
• 1:46:33
  the enclosure. The elephant, which its owner had reared not for a beast
• 1:46:39
  of burden but for warlike purposes, was half domesticated. The Indian had begun
• 1:46:45
  already by often irritating him and feeding him every three months on sugar and butter,
• 1:46:50
  to impart to him a ferocity not in his nature, this method being
• 1:46:55
  often employed by those who trained the Indian elephants for battle. Happily, however,
• 1:47:00
  for mister Fogg, the animal's instruction in this direction had not gone far,
• 1:47:05
  and the elephant still preserved his natural gentleness. Kiyuni this was the name
• 1:47:12
  of the beast, could doubtless travel rapidly for a long time, and in
• 1:47:16
  default of any other means of conveyance, mister Fogg resolved to hire him.
• 1:47:23
  But elephants are far from cheap in India, where they are becoming scarce.
• 1:47:27
  The males, which alone are suitable for circus shows, are much sought,
• 1:47:32
  especially as but few of them are domesticated. When therefore mister Fogg proposed to
• 1:47:38
  the Indian to hire Kiyuni, he refused point blank. Mister Fogg persisted,
• 1:47:45
  offering the excessive sum of ten pounds an hour for the loan of the beast
• 1:47:48
  to Allahabad refused, twenty pounds refused also, forty pounds still refused. Passepartout
• 1:48:00
  jumped at each advance, but the Indian declined to be tempted. Yet the
• 1:48:05
  offer was an alluring one, for supposing it took the elephant fifteen hours to
• 1:48:11
  reach Allahabad, his owner would receive no less than six hundred pounds. Sterling
• 1:48:16
  Phileas Fogg, without getting in the least flurried, then proposed to purchase the
• 1:48:21
  animal outright, and at first offered a thousand pounds for him. The Indian,
• 1:48:28
  perhaps thinking he was going to make a great bargain, still refused.
• 1:48:33
  Sir Francis Cromarty took mister Fogg aside and begged him to reflect before he went
• 1:48:39
  any further, to which that gentleman replied that he was not in the habit
• 1:48:43
  of acting rashly, that a bet of twenty thousand pounds, was at stake
• 1:48:47
  that the elephant was absolutely necessary to him, and that he would secure him
• 1:48:53
  if he had to pay twenty times his value. Returning to the Indian,
• 1:48:59
  whose small, sharp eyes glistening with avarice betrayed that with him it was only
• 1:49:04
  a question of how great a price he could obtain, mister Fogg offered first
• 1:49:10
  twelve hundred, then fifteen hundred, eighteen hundred, two thousand pounds. Passe
• 1:49:16
  partout, usually so rubicund was fairly white with suspense. At two thousand pounds,
• 1:49:24
  the Indian yielded what the price good heavens, cried, passepartout for an
• 1:49:31
  elephant. It only remained now to find a guide, which was comparatively easy.
• 1:49:39
  A young Parsi with an intelligent face offered his services, which mister Fogg
• 1:49:44
  accepted, promising so generous a ward as to materially stimulate his zeal. The
• 1:49:49
  elephant was led out and equipped. The Parsi, who was an accomplished elephant
• 1:49:56
  driver, covered his back with a sort of saddlecloth and a attached to each
• 1:50:00
  of his flanks, some curiously uncomfortable howdahs phileas. Fogg paid the Indian with
• 1:50:05
  some banknotes which he extracted from the famous carpet bag, a proceeding that seemed
• 1:50:11
  to deprive poor passepartout of his vitals. Then he offered to carry Sir Francis
• 1:50:16
  to Allahabad, which the Brigadier gratefully accepted, as one traveler the more would
• 1:50:23
  not be likely to fatigue. The gigantic beast. Provisions were purchased at Colby,
• 1:50:28
  and while Sir Francis and mister Fogg took the howdahs on either side,
• 1:50:32
  passepartout got astride the saddlecloth between them. The Parsi perched himself on the elephant's
• 1:50:40
  neck, and at nine o'clock they set out from the village, the animal
• 1:50:44
  marching off through the dense forest of palms by the shortest cut end of chapter
• 1:50:51
  chapter twelve, in which Phileas Fogg and his companions venture across the Indian forests
• 1:50:58
  and what ensued. In order to shorten the journey, the guide passed to
• 1:51:04
  the left of the line where the railway was still in process of being built.
• 1:51:09
  This line, owing to the capricious turnings of the Vindhia Mountains, did
• 1:51:14
  not pursue a straight course. The Parsi, who was quite familiar with the
• 1:51:17
  roads and paths in the district, declared that they would gain twenty miles by
• 1:51:21
  striking directly through the forest. Phileas Fogg and Sir Francis Cromarty plunged to the
• 1:51:29
  neck in the peculiar howdahs provided for them, were horribly jostled by the swift
• 1:51:33
  trotting of the elephant, spurred on as he was by the skillful Parsi.
• 1:51:39
  But they endured the discomfort with true British phlegm, talking little and scarcely able
• 1:51:44
  to catch a glimpse of each other. As for Passepartout, who was mounted
• 1:51:47
  on the beast's back and received the direct force of each concussion as he trod
• 1:51:53
  along, he was very careful, in accordance with his master's advice, to
• 1:51:58
  keep his tongue from between the him his teeth, as it would otherwise have
• 1:52:01
  been bitten off. Short the worthy fellow bounced from the elephant's neck to his
• 1:52:05
  rump, and vaulted like a clown on a springboard. Yet he laughed in
• 1:52:10
  the midst of his bouncing, and from time to time took a piece of
• 1:52:14
  sugar out of his pocket and inserted it in Keiyunie's trunk, who received it
• 1:52:17
  without in the least slackening his regular trot. After two hours, the guide
• 1:52:24
  stopped the elephant and gave him an hour for rest, during which Kiyuni,
• 1:52:29
  after quenching his thirst at a neighboring spring, set to devouring the branches and
• 1:52:32
  shrubs round about him. Neither Sir Francis nor mister Fogg regretted the delay,
• 1:52:39
  and both descended with a feeling of relief. Why he is made of iron,
• 1:52:45
  exclaimed the general, gazing admiringly on Keiyuoni of forged iron, replied passepartout
• 1:52:54
  as he set about preparing a hasty breakfast. At noon, the Parsi gave
• 1:52:59
  this signal of departure. The country soon presented a very savage aspect. Copses
• 1:53:05
  of dates and dwarf palms succeeded the dense forests, then vast dry plains,
• 1:53:11
  dotted with scanty shrubs and sown with great blocks of seonite. All this portion
• 1:53:16
  of Bundulkund, which is little frequented by travelers, is inhabited by a fanatical
• 1:53:23
  population hardened in the most horrible practices of the Hindu faith. The English have
• 1:53:29
  not been able to secure complete dominion over this territory, which is subjected to
• 1:53:33
  the influence of Rajas, whom it is almost impossible to reach in their inaccessible
• 1:53:39
  mountain fastnesses. The travelers several times saw bands of ferocious Indians, who,
• 1:53:45
  when they perceived the elephants striding across country, made angry and threatening motions.
• 1:53:51
  The Parsei avoided them as much as possible. Few animals were observed on the
• 1:53:57
  route. Even the monkeys hurried from their path with contortions and grimaces which convulse
• 1:54:01
  passpartout with laughter in the midst of his gaiety. However, one thought troubled
• 1:54:08
  the worthy servant. What would mister Fogg do with the elephant when he got
• 1:54:12
  to Allahabad? Would he carry him on with him impossible? The cost of
• 1:54:17
  transporting him would make him ruinously expensive. Would he sell him or set him
• 1:54:24
  free? The estimable beast certainly deserves some consideration. Should mister Fogg choose to
• 1:54:30
  make him passepartout a present of Chiuni, he would be very much embarrassed.
• 1:54:36
  And these thoughts did not cease worrying him for a long time. The principal
• 1:54:43
  chain of the Vindhias was crossed by eight in the evening and another halt was
• 1:54:47
  made on the northern slope in a ruined bungalow. They had gone nearly twenty
• 1:54:51
  five miles that day, and an equal distance still separated them from the station
• 1:54:57
  of Allahabad. The night was cold. The Parsi lit a fire in the
• 1:55:02
  bungalow with a few dry branches, and the warmth was very grateful. Provisions
• 1:55:08
  purchased at Colby sufficed for supper, and the travelers ate ravenously. The conversation,
• 1:55:15
  beginning with a few disconnected phrases, soon gave place to loud and steady
• 1:55:19
  snores. The guide watched Keyuni, who slept standing bolstering himself against the trunk
• 1:55:27
  of a large tree. Nothing occurred during the night to disturb the slumberers,
• 1:55:31
  although occasional growls from panthers and chatterings of monkeys broke the silence, The more
• 1:55:38
  formidable beasts made no cries or hostile demonstration against the occupants of the bungalow.
• 1:55:45
  Sir Francis slept heavily, like an honest soldier overcome with fatigue. Passepartout was
• 1:55:51
  wrapped in uneasy dreams of the bouncing of the day before. As for mister
• 1:55:56
  Fogg, he slumbered as peacefully as if he had been in his serene mansion
• 1:56:00
  in Savile Road. The journey was resumed at six in the morning. The
• 1:56:05
  guide hoped to reach Allahabad by evening. In that case, mister Fogg would
• 1:56:11
  only lose a part of the forty eight hours save since the beginning of the
• 1:56:15
  tour. Kiyuni, resuming his rapid gait, soon descended the lower spurs of
• 1:56:19
  the Vindhias, and towards noon they passed by the village of Kallinger on the
• 1:56:26
  Khani, one of the branches of the Ganges. The guide avoided inhabited places,
• 1:56:31
  thinking it safer to keep the open country, which lies along the first
• 1:56:35
  depressions of the basin of the great river. Allahabad was now only twelve miles
• 1:56:42
  to the northeast. They stopped under a clump of bananas, the fruit of
• 1:56:46
  which, as healthy as bread and as succulent as cream, was amply partaken
• 1:56:51
  of and appreciated. At two o'clock, the guide entered a thick forest which
• 1:56:57
  extended several miles. He preferred to travel under cover of the woods. They
• 1:57:01
  had not as yet had any unpleasant encounters, and the journey seemed on the
• 1:57:06
  point of being successfully accomplished, when the elephant, becoming restless, suddenly stopped.
• 1:57:14
  It was then four o'clock. What's the matter, asked Sir Francis,
• 1:57:19
  putting out his head. I don't know, officer replied the parsis listening attentively
• 1:57:26
  to a confused murmur which came through the thick branches. The murmur soon became
• 1:57:30
  more distinct. It now seemed like a distant concert of human voices accompanied by
• 1:57:36
  brass instruments. Passepartout was all eyes and ears. Mister Fogg patiently waited without
• 1:57:45
  a word. The Parsi jumped to the ground, fastened the elephant to a
• 1:57:48
  tree, and plunged into the thicket. He soon returned, saying, if
• 1:57:55
  procession of Brahmins is coming this way, we must prevent their seeing us if
• 1:58:00
  possible. The guide unloosed the elephant and led him into a thicket, at
• 1:58:04
  the same time asking the travelers not to stir. He held himself ready to
• 1:58:10
  bestride the animal at a moment's notice, should flight become necessary, But he
• 1:58:15
  evidently thought that the procession of the faithful would pass without perceiving them. Amid
• 1:58:19
  the thick foliage in which they were wholly concealed. The discordant tones of the
• 1:58:25
  voices and instruments drew nearer, and now droning songs mingled with the sound of
• 1:58:30
  the tambourines and cymbals. The head of the procession soon appeared beneath the trees
• 1:58:36
  a hundred paces away, and the strange figures who performed the religious ceremony were
• 1:58:42
  easily distinguished through the branches. First came the priests, with miters on their
• 1:58:46
  heads and clothed in long lace robes. They were surrounded by men, women,
• 1:58:53
  and children, who sang a kind of lugubrious psalm, interrupted at regular
• 1:58:58
  intervals by the tambours and cymbals, while behind them was drawn a car with
• 1:59:03
  large wheels, the spokes of which represented serpents entwined with each other. Upon
• 1:59:11
  the car, which was drawn by four richly caparison zebrus, stood a hideous
• 1:59:15
  statue with four arms. The body colored a dull red, with haggard eyes,
• 1:59:21
  disheveled hair, protruding tongue, and lips tinted with betal. It stood
• 1:59:28
  upright upon the figure of a prostrate and headless giant. Sir Francis, recognizing
• 1:59:33
  the statue, whispered the goddess Kali, the goddess of love and death.
• 1:59:41
  Of death perhaps muttered back passepartout, but of love, that ugly old hag
• 1:59:46
  never the Parsi made a motion to keep silence. A group of old fakers
• 1:59:54
  were capering and making a wild adio around the statue. These were striped with
• 1:59:59
  oak and covered with cuts, whence their blood issued drop by drop. Stupid
• 2:00:04
  fanatics who in the great Indian ceremonies still throw themselves under the wheels of juggernaut.
• 2:00:12
  Some Brahmins, clad in all the sumptuousness of oriental apparel and leading a
• 2:00:16
  woman who falded at every step followed. This woman was young and as fair
• 2:00:23
  as a European. Her head and neck, shoulders, ears, arms,
• 2:00:28
  hands and toes were loaded down with jewels and gems, with bracelets, earrings,
• 2:00:32
  and rings, while a tunic bordered with gold and covered with a light
• 2:00:36
  muslin robe betrayed the outline of her form. The guards who followed the young
• 2:00:43
  woman presented a violent contrast to her, armed as they were with naked sabers
• 2:00:47
  hung at their waists and long damascened pistols, and bearing a corpse on a
• 2:00:54
  palanquin. It was the body of an old man, gorgeously arrayed in the
• 2:00:59
  habiliments of a rajah, wearing as in life, a turban embroidered with pearls,
• 2:01:04
  a robe of tissue of silk and gold, a scarf of cashmere sewed
• 2:01:10
  with diamonds, and the magnificent weapons of a Hindoo prince. Next came the
• 2:01:15
  musicians and a rear guard of capering fakirs, whose cries sometimes drowned the noise
• 2:01:20
  of the instruments. These closed the procession. Sir Francis watched the procession with
• 2:01:27
  a sad countenance, and, turning to the guide, said a sattee.
• 2:01:33
  The Parsi nodded and put his finger to his lips. The procession slowly wound
• 2:01:39
  under the trees, and soon its last ranks disappeared in the depths of the
• 2:01:43
  wood. The songs gradually died away. Occasionally cries were heard in the distance,
• 2:01:48
  until at last all was silence again. Phileas Fogg had heard what Sir
• 2:01:55
  Francis said, and as soon as the procession had disappeared, asked, what
• 2:01:59
  is a sati? Asatie returned the general is a human sacrifice, but a
• 2:02:06
  voluntary one. The woman you have just seen, will be burned tomorrow at
• 2:02:11
  the dawn of day. Oh the scoundrels, cried Passepartout, who could not
• 2:02:16
  repress his indignation. And the corpse asked, mister Fogg, is that of
• 2:02:24
  the prince? Her husband? Said the guide, an independent Rajah of Bundelcund.
• 2:02:30
  Is it possible? Resumed Phileas Fogg, his voice betraying not the least
• 2:02:35
  emotion, that these barbarous customs still exist in India and that the English had
• 2:02:42
  been unable to put stop to them. These sacrifices do not occur in the
• 2:02:47
  larger portion of India, replied Sir Francis. But we have no power over
• 2:02:54
  these savage territories, and especially here in Bundokund, the whole district, author
• 2:03:00
  of the vnhers is the theater of incessant murders and pillage. The poor wretch,
• 2:03:06
  exclaimed Passepartout, to be burned alive, Yes, returned Sir Francis,
• 2:03:14
  burned alive. And if she were not, you cannot conceive what treatment she
• 2:03:18
  would be obliged to submit to from her relatives. They would shave off her
• 2:03:24
  hair, feed her on a scanty allowance of rice treat her with contempt,
• 2:03:29
  she would be looked upon as an unclean creature and would die in some corner
• 2:03:34
  like a scurvy dog. The prospect of so frightful an existence drives these poor
• 2:03:41
  creatures to the sacrifice much more than love or religious fanaticism. Sometimes, however,
• 2:03:47
  the sacrifice is really voluntary, and it requires the active interference of the
• 2:03:53
  government to prevent it. Several years ago, when I was living at Bombay,
• 2:03:59
  a young widow asked permission of the governor to be burned along with her
• 2:04:02
  husband's body. But as you may imagine, she refused. The woman left
• 2:04:09
  the town, took refuge with an independent rajah, and there carried out her
• 2:04:14
  self devoted purpose. While Sir Francis was speaking, the guide shook his head
• 2:04:18
  several times and now said, this sacrifice, which would take place tomorrow at
• 2:04:24
  dawn, is not a voluntary one. How do you know? Everybody knows
• 2:04:30
  about this affair in bundlecun But the wretched creature does not seem to be making
• 2:04:36
  any resistance, observed Sir Francis. That was because they had intoxicated her with
• 2:04:43
  fumes of hemp and opium. But where are they taking her to the Bogorda
• 2:04:49
  Epilaji, two miles from here. She will pass the night there, and
• 2:04:55
  the sacrifice will take place tomorrow at the first light of dawn. The guide
• 2:05:01
  now led the elephant out of the thicket and leaped upon his neck. Just
• 2:05:05
  at the moment that he was about to urge, heuni forward with a peculiar
• 2:05:09
  whistle, mister Fogg stopped him, and, turning to Sir Francis Cromarty,
• 2:05:15
  said, suppose we save this woman. Save the woman, mister Fogg,
• 2:05:21
  I have yet twelve hours to spare. I can devote them to that.
• 2:05:27
  Why you are a man of heart, sometimes replied Phileas Fogg quietly, when
• 2:05:34
  I have the time. End of chapter chapter thirteen, in which Passepartout receives
• 2:05:44
  a new proof that fortune favors the brave. The project was a bold one,
• 2:05:53
  full of difficulty, perhaps impracticable. Mister Fogg was going to risk life
• 2:05:59
  or at least liberate and therefore the success of his tour. But he did
• 2:06:02
  not hesitate, and he found in Sir Francis Cromarty an enthusiastic ally. As
• 2:06:09
  for Passepartout, he was ready for anything that might be proposed. His master's
• 2:06:14
  idea charmed him. He perceived a heart, a soul under that icy exterior.
• 2:06:19
  He began to love Phileas Fogg. There remained the Guide. What course
• 2:06:25
  would he adopt? Would he not take part with the Indians in default of
• 2:06:30
  his assistance? It was necessary to be assured of his neutrality. Sir Francis
• 2:06:34
  frankly put the question to him. Officers, replied the Guide. I am
• 2:06:41
  a Parsi and this woman is a Parsi. Command me as you will,
• 2:06:45
  excellent, said mister Fogg, However, resumed the Guide. It is certain
• 2:06:51
  not only that we shall risk our lives, but horrible tortures if we are
• 2:06:56
  taken. That is foreseen, replied mister Fogg. I think we must wait
• 2:07:01
  till night before acting. I think so, said the Guide. The worthy
• 2:07:08
  Indian then gave some account of the victim, who he said was a celebrated
• 2:07:12
  beauty of the Parsi race and the daughter of a wealthy Bombay merchant. She
• 2:07:16
  had received a thoroughly English education in that city, and from her manners and
• 2:07:21
  intelligence would be thought a European. Her name was Aouda, left an orphan.
• 2:07:29
  She was married against her will to the old Raja of Bundukund, and,
• 2:07:33
  knowing the fate that awaited her, she escaped, was retaken and devoted
• 2:07:39
  by the raja's relatives, who had an interest in her death, to the
• 2:07:43
  sacrifice from which it seemed she could not escape. The Parsis narrative only confirmed
• 2:07:48
  mister Fogg and his companions in their generous design. It was decided that the
• 2:07:54
  guide should direct the elephant towards the Pagoda of Pelagi, which he accordingly approached
• 2:07:59
  as quickly as possible. They halted half an hour afterwards in a copse some
• 2:08:05
  five hundred feet from the pagoda, where they were well concealed, but they
• 2:08:09
  could hear the groans and cries of the fakirs distinctly. They then discussed the
• 2:08:15
  means of getting at the victim. The guide was familiar with the pagoda of
• 2:08:18
  Pelagi, in which, as he declared, the young woman was imprisoned.
• 2:08:24
  Could they enter any of its doors while the whole party of Indians was plunged
• 2:08:28
  in a drunken sleep, or was it safer to attempt to make a hole
• 2:08:31
  in the walls. This could only be determined at the moment and placed themselves,
• 2:08:37
  But it was certain that the abduction must be made that night, and
• 2:08:41
  not when at break of day the victim was led to her funeral pyre,
• 2:08:46
  then no human intervention could save her. As soon as night fell about six
• 2:08:52
  o'clock, they decided to make a reconnaissance around the pagoda. The cries of
• 2:08:58
  the fakirs were just ceasing. The Indians were in the act of plunging themselves
• 2:09:03
  into the drunkenness caused by liquid opium mingled with hemp, and it might be
• 2:09:07
  possible to slip between them to the temple itself. The Parsi leading the others
• 2:09:13
  noiselessly crept through the wood, and in ten minutes they found themselves on the
• 2:09:18
  banks of a small stream. Whence, by the light of the rosin torches,
• 2:09:24
  they perceived a pyre of wood, on the top of which lay the
• 2:09:28
  embalmed body of the Rajah, which was to be burned with his wife.
• 2:09:33
  The pagoda, whose minarets loomed above the trees in the deepening dusk, stood
• 2:09:37
  a hundred steps away. Come, whispered the guide. He slipped more cautiously
• 2:09:43
  than ever through the brush, followed by his companions. The silence around was
• 2:09:48
  only broken by the low murmuring of the wind among the branches. Soon the
• 2:09:54
  Parsi stopped on the borders of the glade, which was lit up by the
• 2:09:58
  torches, the covered by groups of the Indians, motionless in their drunken sleep.
• 2:10:05
  It seemed a battlefield strewn with the dead. Men, women and children
• 2:10:09
  lay together in the background among the trees. The pagoda of Pelagi loomed distinctly,
• 2:10:16
  much to the guide's disappointment. The guards of the Raja, lighted by
• 2:10:22
  torches, were watching at the doors and marching to and fro with naked sabers.
• 2:10:26
  Probably the priests too, were watching within. The Parsi, now convinced
• 2:10:33
  that it was impossible to force an entrance to the temple, advanced no farther,
• 2:10:37
  but led his companions back again. Phileas Fogg and Sir Francis Cromarty also
• 2:10:43
  saw that nothing could be attempted in that direction. They stopped and engaged in
• 2:10:48
  a whispered colloquy. It is only eight now, said the brigadier, and
• 2:10:54
  these gods may also go to sleep. It is not impossible, returned the
• 2:11:01
  Parsi. They lay down at the foot of a tree and waited. The
• 2:11:07
  time seemed long the guide, ever, and Anon left them to take an
• 2:11:11
  observation on the edge of the wood, but the guards watched steadily by the
• 2:11:15
  glare of the torches, and a dim light crept through the windows of the
• 2:11:18
  pagoda. They waited till midnight, but no change took place among the guards,
• 2:11:24
  and it became apparent that their yielding to sleep could not be counted on.
• 2:11:30
  The other plan must be carried out. An opening in the walls of
• 2:11:33
  the pagoda must be made. It remained to ascertain whether the priests were watching
• 2:11:39
  by the side of their victim as assiduously as were the soldiers at the door.
• 2:11:45
  After a last consultation, the guide announced that he was ready for the
• 2:11:48
  attempt and advanced, followed by the others. They took a roundabout way so
• 2:11:54
  as to get at the pagoda on the rear. They reached the walls about
• 2:11:58
  half past twelve, without having met any one either. There was no guard,
• 2:12:03
  nor were there either windows or doors. The night was dark, the
• 2:12:09
  moon on the wane scarcely left the horizon and was covered with heavy clouds.
• 2:12:16
  The height of the trees deepened the darkness. It was not enough to reach
• 2:12:20
  the walls and opening in them must be accomplished, and to attain this purpose
• 2:12:24
  the party only had their pocket knives. Happily, the temple walls were built
• 2:12:31
  of brick and wood, which could be penetrated with little difficulty. After one
• 2:12:35
  brick had been taken out, the rest would yield easily. They set noiselessly
• 2:12:41
  to work, and the parsea on one side and Passepartout on the other began
• 2:12:45
  to loosen the bricks so as to make an aperture two feet wide. They
• 2:12:50
  were getting on rapidly when suddenly a cry was heard in the interior of the
• 2:12:54
  temple, followed almost instantly by other cries replying from the outside. Passepartout and
• 2:13:01
  the guide stopped. Had they been heard? Was the alarm being given?
• 2:13:05
  Common prudence urged them to retire, and they did so, followed by Phileas
• 2:13:11
  Fogg and Sir Francis. They again hid themselves in the wood and waited till
• 2:13:16
  the disturbance, whatever it might be, ceased, holding themselves ready to resume
• 2:13:22
  their attempt without delay. But awkwardly enough, the guards now appeared at the
• 2:13:28
  rear of the temple, and there installed themselves in readiness to prevent a surprise
• 2:13:35
  it would be difficult to describe the disappointment of the party. Thus interrupted in
• 2:13:39
  their work, they could not now reach the victim. How then could they
• 2:13:45
  save her? Sir Francis shook his fists, passepartout, was beside himself,
• 2:13:50
  and the guide gnashed his teeth with rage. The tranquil Fog waited, without
• 2:13:56
  betraying any emotion. Have nothing to do but to go away, whispered Sir
• 2:14:03
  Francis. Nothing but to go away, echoed the guide. Stop, said
• 2:14:09
  Fogg. I am only due at Allahabad tomorrow before noon. But what can
• 2:14:16
  you hope to do? Asked Sir Francis. In a few hours it will
• 2:14:20
  be daylight, and the chance, which now seems lost, may present itself
• 2:14:24
  at the last moment. Sir Francis would have liked to read phileas Fogg's eyes.
• 2:14:31
  What was this cool englishman thinking of? Was he planning to make a
• 2:14:35
  rush for the young woman at the very moment of the sacrifice and boldly snatch
• 2:14:41
  her from her executioners. This would be utter folly, and it was hard
• 2:14:46
  to admit that Fogg was such a fool. Sir Francis consented, however,
• 2:14:50
  to remain to the end of this terrible drama. The guide led them to
• 2:14:54
  the rear of the glade, where they were able to observe the sleeping groups.
• 2:14:58
  Meanwhile, Passepartout, who had perched himself on the lower branches of a
• 2:15:03
  tree, was resolving an idea which had first struck him like a flash,
• 2:15:07
  and which was now firmly lodged in his brain. He had commenced by saying
• 2:15:13
  to himself, what folly? And then he repeated, well, why not?
• 2:15:18
  After all, it's a chance, perhaps the only one. And with
• 2:15:22
  such sots thinking, thus he slipped, with the suppleness of a serpent,
• 2:15:28
  to the lowest branches, the ends of which bent almost to the ground.
• 2:15:33
  The hours passed, and the lighter shades now announced the approach of day,
• 2:15:37
  though it was not yet light. This was the moment the slumbering multitude became
• 2:15:43
  animated. The tambourines sounded, songs, and cries arose. The hour of
• 2:15:48
  the sacrifice had come. The doors of the pagoda swung open, and a
• 2:15:54
  bright light escaped from its interior, in the midst of which mister Fogg and
• 2:15:58
  Sir Francis espied the victim. She seemed, having shaken off the stupor of
• 2:16:03
  intoxication to be striving to escape from her executioner. Sir Francis's heart throbbed,
• 2:16:11
  and convulsively, seizing mister Fogg's hand, found in it an open knife.
• 2:16:18
  Just at this moment the crowd began to move. The young woman had again
• 2:16:22
  fallen into a stupor caused by the fumes of hemp, and passed among the
• 2:16:26
  fakirs, who escorted her with their wild religious cries. Phileas Fogg and his
• 2:16:33
  companions, mingling in the rear ranks of the crowd, followed, and in
• 2:16:37
  two minutes they reached the banks of the stream and stopped fifty paces from the
• 2:16:41
  pyre, upon which still lay the rageous corpse. In the semi obscurity,
• 2:16:46
  they saw the victim, quite senseless, stretched out beside her husband's body.
• 2:16:52
  Then a torch was brought and the wood, heavily soaked with oil, instantly
• 2:16:58
  took fire. At this moment, Sir Francis and the guide seized Phileas Fogg,
• 2:17:03
  who, in an instant of mad generosity, was about to rush upon
• 2:17:07
  the pyre, but he had quickly pushed them aside. When the whole scene
• 2:17:11
  suddenly changed, a cry of terror arose the whole multitude prostrated themselves, terror
• 2:17:18
  stricken on the ground. The old Roger was not dead, then, since
• 2:17:22
  he rose of a sudden like a specter, took up his wife in his
• 2:17:26
  arms, and descended from the pyre in the midst of the clouds of smoke,
• 2:17:31
  which only heightened his ghostly appearance. Fakirs and soldiers and priests, seized
• 2:17:37
  with instant terror, lay there with their faces on the ground, not daring
• 2:17:41
  to lift their eyes and behold such a prodigy. The inanimate victim was borne
• 2:17:46
  along by the vigorous arms which supported her, and which she did not seem
• 2:17:50
  in the least to burden. Mister Fogg and Sir Francis stood erect. The
• 2:17:56
  Parsi bowed his head, and Passepartout was, no doubt scarcely less stupefied.
• 2:18:03
  The resuscitated Raja approached Sir Francis and mister Fogg, and in an abrupt tone,
• 2:18:09
  said, let us be off. It was past Partout himself, who
• 2:18:13
  had slipped upon the pyre in the midst of the smoke, and, profiting
• 2:18:16
  by the still overhanging darkness, had delivered the young woman from death. It
• 2:18:22
  was past Partou, who, playing his part with a happy audacity, had
• 2:18:26
  passed through the crowd amid the general terror. A moment after all four of
• 2:18:31
  the party had disappeared in the woods, and the elephant was bearing them away
• 2:18:35
  at a rapid pace. But the cries and noise, and a ball which
• 2:18:39
  whizzed through Phileas Fogg's hat apprised them that the trick had been discovered. The
• 2:18:46
  old Raja's body indeed now appeared upon the burning pyre, and the priests,
• 2:18:50
  recovering from their terror, perceived that an abduction had taken place. They hastened
• 2:18:56
  into the forest, followed by the soldiers, who fired a volley after the
• 2:19:01
  fugitives, but the latter rapidly increased the distance between them, and ere long
• 2:19:05
  found themselves beyond the reach of the bullets and arrows. End of chapter chapter
• 2:19:15
  fourteen, in which Phileas Fogg descends the whole length of the beautiful valley of
• 2:19:18
  the Ganges without ever thinking of seeing it. The rash exploit had been accomplished,
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  and for an hour passpartout laughed gaily at his success. Sir Francis pressed
• 2:19:35
  the worthy fellow's hand, and his master said well done, which from him
• 2:19:39
  was high commendation, to which passepartout replied that all the credit of the affair
• 2:19:46
  belonged to mister Fogg. As for him, he had only been struck with
• 2:19:50
  a queer idea, and he laughed to think that for a few moments he
• 2:19:54
  passed partou the ex chymnast ex Sergeant Fireman had been the spouse of a charming
• 2:20:01
  woman of venerable embalmd Raja. As for the young Indian woman, she had
• 2:20:07
  been unconscious throughout what was passing, and now wrapped up in a traveling blanket,
• 2:20:11
  was reposing in one of the howdahs. The elephant, thanks to the
• 2:20:16
  skillful guidance of the Parsi, was advancing rapidly through the still darksome forest,
• 2:20:22
  and an hour after leaving the pagoda had crossed a vast plain. They made
• 2:20:28
  a halt at seven o'clock, the young woman being still in a state of
• 2:20:31
  complete prostration. The guide made her drink a little brandy in water, but
• 2:20:37
  the drowsiness which stupefied her could not yet be shaken off. Sir Francis,
• 2:20:43
  who was familiar with the effects of the intoxication produced by the fumes of hemp,
• 2:20:48
  reassured his companions on her account, but he was more disturbed at the
• 2:20:52
  prospect of her future fate. He told Phileas Fogg that should Aouda remain in
• 2:20:58
  India, she would inevitably fall again into the hands of her executioners. These
• 2:21:03
  fanatics were scattered throughout the country and would despite the English police recover their victim
• 2:21:11
  at Madras, Bombay or Calcutta. She would only be safe by quitting India
• 2:21:16
  forever. Phileas Fogg replied that he would reflect upon the matter. The station
• 2:21:24
  at a Lahabad was reached about ten o'clock, and the interrupted line of railway
• 2:21:28
  being resumed would enable them to reach Calcutta in less than twenty four hours.
• 2:21:33
  Phileas Fogg would thus be able to arrive in time to take the steamer which
• 2:21:39
  left Calcutta the next day, October twenty fifth, at noon for Hong Kong.
• 2:21:45
  The young woman was placed in one of the waiting rooms of the station,
• 2:21:48
  whilst Passepartout was charged with purchasing for her various articles of toilet, address,
• 2:21:54
  shawl and some furs, for which his master gave him unlimited credit.
• 2:22:00
  Passepartout started off forthwith and found himself in the streets of Allahabad, that is,
• 2:22:05
  the city of God, one of the most venerated in India, being
• 2:22:09
  built at the junction of the two sacred rivers, Ganges and Jumna, the
• 2:22:15
  waters of which attract pilgrims from every part of the peninsula. The Ganges,
• 2:22:20
  according to the legends of the Ramayana, whence, owing to Brahma's agency,
• 2:22:26
  it descends to the earth. Passepartout made it a point as he made his
• 2:22:31
  purchases, to take a good look at the city. It was formerly defended
• 2:22:35
  by a noble fort, which has since become a state prison. Its commerce
• 2:22:41
  has dwindled away, and Passepartout in vain, looked about him for such a
• 2:22:45
  bazaar as he used to frequent in Regent Street. At last he came upon
• 2:22:50
  an elderly, crusty jew who sold second hand articles, and from whom he
• 2:22:54
  purchased a dress of scotch stuff, a large mantle, and a fine otterskin
• 2:23:00
  pelis, for which he did not hesitate to pay seventy five pounds. He
• 2:23:05
  then returned triumphantly to the station. The influence to which the priests of Pelaji
• 2:23:13
  had subjected Aouda began gradually to yield, and she became more herself, so
• 2:23:18
  that her fine eyes resumed all their soft Indian expression. When the poet King
• 2:23:26
  uka Uddaal celebrates the charms of the Queen of Amanagara, he speaks thus her
• 2:23:33
  shining tresses, divided in two parts, encircled the harmonious contour of her white
• 2:23:39
  and delicate cheeks, brilliant in their glow and freshness. Her ebony brows have
• 2:23:43
  the form and charm of the bow of Karna, the god of Love,
• 2:23:48
  and beneath her long silken lashes, the purest reflections and a celestial light swim
• 2:23:54
  as in the sacred lakes of Himalaya, in the black pupils of her great
• 2:23:58
  clear eyes. Her teeth fine, equal and white glitter between her smiling lips,
• 2:24:05
  like dewdrops in a passion flower's half enveloped breast. Her delicately formed ears,
• 2:24:11
  her vermilion hands, her little feet, curved in slender as the lotus
• 2:24:16
  bud, glitter with the brilliancy of the loveliest pearls of Ceylon, the most
• 2:24:20
  dazzling diamonds of Golconda. Her narrow and supple waist, which a hand may
• 2:24:26
  clasp around, sets forth the outline of her rounded figure, and the beauty
• 2:24:31
  of her bosom, where youth in its flower displays the wealth of its treasures,
• 2:24:35
  and beneath the silken folds of her tunic, she seems to have been
• 2:24:39
  modeled in pure silver by the godlike hand of Vicvarcarma, the immortal sculptor.
• 2:24:46
  It is enough to say, without applying this poetical rhapsy to Aouda, that
• 2:24:50
  she was a charming woman in all the European exceptation of the phrase she spoke
• 2:24:56
  English with great purity, and the guide had he not exaggerated in saying that
• 2:25:01
  the young Parsi had been transformed by her bringing up. The train was about
• 2:25:05
  to start from Allahabad, and mister Fogg proceeded to pay the guide the price
• 2:25:09
  agreed upon for his service, and not a farthing more, which astonished Passepartout,
• 2:25:16
  who remembered all that his master owed to the guide's devotion. He had
• 2:25:20
  indeed risked his life in the adventure at Pelagi, and if he should be
• 2:25:24
  caught afterwards by the Indians, he would with difficulty escape their vengeance. Kiyuni
• 2:25:31
  also must be disposed of what should be done with the elephant which had been
• 2:25:35
  so dearly purchased. Phileas Fogg had already determined this question. Parsi, said
• 2:25:43
  he to the guide, you have been serviceable and devoted. I have paid
• 2:25:48
  for your service, but not for your devotion. Would you like to have
• 2:25:52
  this elephant? He is yours? The Guide's eyes glistened. Your honor is
• 2:25:58
  giving me a fortune, cried he Take him. Guide returned mister Fogg,
• 2:26:05
  and I shall still be your debtor, good, exclaimed Passepartout. Take him
• 2:26:11
  friend, Ciuni is brave and faithful beast. And going up to the elephant,
• 2:26:16
  he gave him several lumps of sugar, saying here, Ciuni, here
• 2:26:20
  here. The elephant grunted out his satisfaction, and clasping Passepartout around the waist
• 2:26:28
  with his trunk, lifted him as high as his head. Passepartout, not
• 2:26:31
  in the least alarmed, caressed the animal, which replaced him gently on the
• 2:26:37
  ground. Soon after, Phileas Fogg, Sir Francis Cromarty and Passepartout, installed
• 2:26:43
  in a carriage with Aouda who had the best seat, were whirling at full
• 2:26:48
  speed towards Benares. It was a run of eighty miles and was accomplished in
• 2:26:54
  two hours. During the journey, the young woman fully recovered her senses.
• 2:26:58
  What was her astonishment to find herself in this carriage on the railway, dressed
• 2:27:03
  in European abiliments and with travelers who were quite strangers to her. Her companions
• 2:27:09
  first set about fully reviving her with a little liquor, and then Sir Francis
• 2:27:15
  narrated to her what had passed, dwelling upon the courage with which Phileas Fogg
• 2:27:20
  had not hesitated to risk his life to save her, and the recounting the
• 2:27:24
  happy sequel of the venture the result of Passepartout's rash idea. Mister Fogg said
• 2:27:31
  nothing, while Passepartout abashed kept repeating that it wasn't worth telling. Aouda pathetically
• 2:27:39
  thanked her deliverers rather with tears than words. Her fine eyes interpreted her gratitude
• 2:27:46
  better than her lips. Then, as her thoughts strayed back to the scene
• 2:27:50
  of the sacrifice and recalled the dangers which still menaced her, she shuddered with
• 2:27:54
  terror. Phileas Fogg understood what was passing in auDA's mine and offered, in
• 2:28:01
  order to reassure her, to escort her to Hong Kong, where she might
• 2:28:05
  remain safely until the affair was hushed up, an offer which she eagerly and
• 2:28:11
  gratefully accepted. She had, it seems, a Parsi relation, who was
• 2:28:16
  one of the principal merchants of Hong Kong, which is wholly an English city,
• 2:28:20
  though on an island on the Chinese coast. At half past twelve,
• 2:28:26
  the train stopped at Banars. The Brahmin legends assert that this city is built
• 2:28:31
  on the side of the ancient Khasi, which, like Mahomet's tomb, was
• 2:28:35
  once suspended between heaven and earth. Though the Banars of today, which the
• 2:28:41
  Orientalists call the Athens of India, stands quite unpoetically on the solid earth.
• 2:28:48
  Passepartout caught glimpses of its brick houses and clay huts, giving an aspect of
• 2:28:52
  desolation to the place as the train entered it. Banarus was Sir Francis Cromarty's
• 2:28:58
  DestinE. The troops he was rejoining, being encamped some miles northward of the
• 2:29:03
  city. He bade adieu to Vilas Fogg, wishing him all success and expressing
• 2:29:09
  the hope that he would come that way again. In a less original but
• 2:29:15
  more profitable fashion. Mister Fogg lightly pressed him by the hand. The parting
• 2:29:20
  of Aouda, who did not forget what she owed to Sir Francis betrayed more
• 2:29:24
  warmth, and as for passepartout, he received a hearty shake of the hand
• 2:29:30
  from the gallant general. The railway, on leaving Benares, passed for a
• 2:29:35
  while along the valley of the Ganges. Through the windows of their carriage,
• 2:29:39
  the travelers had glimpses of the diversified landscape of Bihar, with its mountains clothed
• 2:29:45
  in verdure, its fields of barley, wheat and corn, its jungles peopled
• 2:29:50
  with green alligators, its neat villages, and its still thickly leaved forests.
• 2:29:56
  Elephants were bathing in the waters of the Sacred and groups of Indians, despite
• 2:30:01
  the advanced season and chile air, were performing solemnly their pious ablutions. These
• 2:30:09
  were fervent Brahmins, the bitterest foes of Buddhism, their deities being Vishnu,
• 2:30:15
  the solar god, Shiva, the divine impersonation of natural forces, and Brahma,
• 2:30:22
  the supreme ruler of priests and legislators. What would these divinities think of
• 2:30:28
  India anglicized as it is today, with steamers whistling and scudding along the Ganges,
• 2:30:33
  frightening the gulls which float upon its surface, the turtles swarming along its
• 2:30:37
  banks, and the faithful dwelling upon its borders. The panorama passed before their
• 2:30:43
  eyes like a flash, save when the steam concealed it fitfully from the view,
• 2:30:48
  the travelers could scarcely discern the fort of Chupenie, twenty miles southwestward from
• 2:30:54
  Benaris, the ancient stronghold of the Rajas of Behar or Gazapu and its famous
• 2:31:01
  rosewater factories, or the tomb of Lord cornwallis rising on the left bank of
• 2:31:05
  the Ganges. The fortified town of Buksar or Patna, a large manufacturing and
• 2:31:13
  trading place where is held the principal opium market of India, or Munghir,
• 2:31:18
  a more than European town, for it is as English as Manchester or Birmingham,
• 2:31:24
  with its iron factories, edged tool factories, and high chimneys puffing clouds
• 2:31:28
  of black smoke. Heavenward night came on. The train passed on at full
• 2:31:35
  speed, in the midst of the roaring of the tigers bears, and wolves,
• 2:31:39
  which fled before the locomotive, and the marvels of Bengal Golconda, ruined
• 2:31:45
  Gower, Murshedabad, the ancient capital Burdwan Hugli, and the French town of
• 2:31:52
  Chandranagore, where Passepartout would have been proud to see his country's flag flying,
• 2:31:56
  were hidden from their view in the darkness. Calcutta was reached at seven in
• 2:32:03
  the morning, and the packet left for Hong Kong at noon, so that
• 2:32:07
  Phileas Fogg had five hours before him. According to his journal, he was
• 2:32:11
  due at Calcutta on the twenty fifth of October, and that was the exact
• 2:32:16
  date of his actual arrival. He was therefore neither behindhand nor ahead of time.
• 2:32:22
  The two days gain between London and Bombay had been lost, as has
• 2:32:26
  been seen in the journey across India, but it is not to be supposed
• 2:32:31
  that Phileas Fogg regretted them. End of chapter chapter fifteen, in which the
• 2:32:39
  bag of banknotes disgorges some thousands of pounds more, the train entered the station
• 2:32:48
  and Passepartou, jumping out first, was followed by mister Fogg, who assisted
• 2:32:52
  his fair companion to descend. Phileas Fogg intended to proceed at once to the
• 2:32:58
  Hong Kong steamer in order to get Aouda comfortably settled for the voyage. He
• 2:33:03
  was unwilling to leave her while they were still on dangerous ground. Just as
• 2:33:09
  he was leaving the station, a policeman came up to him and said,
• 2:33:13
  mister Phileas Fogg, I am he is this man your servant, added the
• 2:33:20
  policeman, pointing to Passepartout, Yes, be so good both of you as
• 2:33:26
  to follow me. Mister Fogg betrayed no surprise whatever. The policeman was a
• 2:33:31
  representative of the law, and law is sacred to an Englishman. Passepartout tried
• 2:33:39
  to reason about the matter, but the policeman tapped him with his stick,
• 2:33:43
  and mister Fogg made him a signal to obey. May this young lady go
• 2:33:48
  with us, asked he she may, replied the policeman, mister Fogg.
• 2:33:54
  Aouda and Passepartout were conducted in a palkigawi, a sort of four wheeled carriage
• 2:34:00
  drawn by two horses, in which they took their places and were driven away.
• 2:34:05
  No one spoke during the twenty minutes which elapsed Before they reached their destination,
• 2:34:09
  they first passed through the blacktown, with its narrow streets, its miserable,
• 2:34:15
  dirty huts, and squalid population, then through the European town, which
• 2:34:20
  presented a relief in its bright brick mansions, shaded by cocoanut trees and bristling
• 2:34:26
  with masts, where, although it was early morning, elegantly dressed horsemen and
• 2:34:31
  handsome equipages were passing back and forth. The carriage stopped before a modest looking
• 2:34:39
  house, which however, did not have the appearance of a private mansion.
• 2:34:43
  The policemen, having requested his prisoners for so truly they might be called to
• 2:34:48
  descend, conducted them into a room with barred windows, and said you will
• 2:34:54
  appear before Judge Obadiah at half past eight. He then retired and closed the
• 2:35:00
  door. Why we are prisoners, exclaimed passepartout, falling into a chair.
• 2:35:07
  Aouda, with an emotion she tried to conceal, said to mister Fogg,
• 2:35:11
  sir, you must leave me to my fate. It is on my account
• 2:35:16
  that you receive this treatment. It is for having saved me. Phileas Fogg
• 2:35:20
  contented himself with, saying that it was impossible it was quite unlikely that he
• 2:35:26
  should be arrested for preventing a settee. The complainants would not dare present themselves
• 2:35:31
  with such a charge. There was some mistake. Moreover, he would not,
• 2:35:37
  in any event abandon Aouda, but would escort her to Hong Kong.
• 2:35:41
  But the steamer leaves at noon, observed Passepartout nervously. We shall be on
• 2:35:48
  board by noon, replied his master placidly. It was said so positively that
• 2:35:54
  Passepartout could not help muttering to himself Parbleu that certain before noon we shall be
• 2:36:01
  on board. But he was by no means reassured. At half past eight,
• 2:36:07
  the door opened. The policeman appeared, and, requesting them to follow
• 2:36:11
  him, led the way to an adjoining hall. It was evidently a court
• 2:36:16
  room, and a crowd of Europeans and natives already occupied the rear of the
• 2:36:20
  apartment. Mister Fogg and his two companions took their places on a bench opposite
• 2:36:26
  the desks of the magistrate and his clerk. Immediately after, Judge Obadiah,
• 2:36:31
  a fat round man, followed by the clerk, entered. He had proceeded
• 2:36:37
  to take down a wig which was hanging on a nail and put it hurriedly
• 2:36:41
  on his head, the first case said. He then, putting his hand
• 2:36:46
  to his head, he exclaimed, he this is not my wig. Know
• 2:36:50
  your worship, returned the clerk, It is mine, my dear mister Oysterpuff.
• 2:36:56
  How can a judge give a wise sentence in a clerk's wig? The
• 2:37:01
  whigs were exchanged. Passepartout was getting nervous for the hands on the face of
• 2:37:05
  the big clock over. The judge seemed to go around with terrible rapidity,
• 2:37:11
  the first case repeated Judge Obadiah Phileas Fogg demanded, Oysterpuff. I am here,
• 2:37:20
  replied mister Fogg. Passepartout, Praison, responded Passepartout. Good, said
• 2:37:30
  the judge. You have been looked for prisoners for two days on the trains
• 2:37:33
  from Bombay. But of what are we accused, asked Passepartout, impatiently,
• 2:37:41
  you are about to be informed. I am an English subject, sir,
• 2:37:46
  said mister Fogg, and I have the right. Have you been ill treated?
• 2:37:52
  Not at all? Very well? Let the complainants come in. A
• 2:37:58
  door was swung open by order of the Juge, and three Indian priests entered.
• 2:38:03
  That's it. Muttered passepartout. These are the rogues who are going to
• 2:38:07
  burn our young lady. The priest took their places in front of the judge,
• 2:38:11
  and the clerk proceeded to read in a loud voice a complaint of sacrilege
• 2:38:16
  against Phileas Fogg and his servant, who were accused of having violated a place
• 2:38:20
  held consecrated by the Brahmin religion. You hear the charge, asked the judge.
• 2:38:28
  Yes, sir, replied mister Fogg, consoling his watch. And I
• 2:38:33
  admit it. You admit it, I admit it, and I wish to
• 2:38:37
  hear these priests admit in their turn what they were going to do at the
• 2:38:41
  Pagoda of Pilagi. The priest looked at each other. They did not seem
• 2:38:48
  to understand what was said. Yes, cried Passepartout warmly. At the Pagoda
• 2:38:54
  of Pilagi, where they were on the point of burning their victim. The
• 2:38:58
  judge stared with astonishment, and the priests were stupefied. What victim, said
• 2:39:05
  Judge Obadiah burn Holm in Bombay itself Bombay, cried passepartout. Certainly, we're
• 2:39:15
  not talking in the Pagoda of Pelagi. But of the pagoda of Malabar Hill
• 2:39:20
  at Bombay, and as a proof, added the clerk, here are the
• 2:39:24
  desecrator's very shoes, which he left behind him, whereupon he placed a pair
• 2:39:30
  of shoes on his desk. My shoes, cried Passepartout in his surprise,
• 2:39:35
  permitting this imprudent exclamation to escape him. The confusion of master and man,
• 2:39:41
  who had quite forgotten the affair at Bombay, for which they were now detained
• 2:39:46
  at Calcutta, may be imagined fixed the detective had foreseen the advantage which Passepartout's
• 2:39:54
  escapade gave him, and, delaying his departure for twelve hours, had consulted
• 2:40:00
  the priests of Malabar Hill, Knowing that the English authorities dealt very severely with
• 2:40:05
  this kind of misdemeanor. He promised them a goodly sum in damages and sent
• 2:40:09
  them forward to Calcutta by the next train. Owing to the delay caused by
• 2:40:15
  the rescue of the young widow, Fix and the priests reached the Indian capital
• 2:40:20
  before mister Fogg and his servant. The magistrates, having been already warned by
• 2:40:24
  a dispatch to arrest them should they arrive. Fix's disappointment when he learned that
• 2:40:30
  Phileas Fogg had not made his appearance in Calcutta may be imagined he made up
• 2:40:35
  his mind that the robber had stopped somewhere on the route and taken refuge in
• 2:40:39
  the southern provinces. For twenty four hours, Fix watched the station with feverish
• 2:40:45
  anxiety. At last he was rewarded by seeing mister Fogg and Passepartout arrive,
• 2:40:50
  accompanied by a young woman whose presence he was wholly at a loss to explain.
• 2:40:56
  He hastened for a policeman, and this was how the party came to
• 2:41:00
  be arrested and brought before Judge Obadiah. Had Passepartout been a little less preoccupied,
• 2:41:07
  he would have despied the detective, ensconced in a corner of the court
• 2:41:11
  room, watching the proceedings with an interest easily understood, for the warrant had
• 2:41:16
  failed to reach him at Calcutta, as it had done at Bombay and Suez.
• 2:41:22
  Judge Obadiah had unfortunately caught Passepartout's rash exclamation, which the poor fellow would
• 2:41:28
  have given the world to recall. The facts are admitted, asked, the
• 2:41:33
  judge admitted replied mister Fogg coldly. Inasmuch resumed the Judge, as the English
• 2:41:43
  law protects equally and sternly the religions of the Indian people, and as the
• 2:41:48
  man Passepartout has admitted that he violated the sacred Pagoda of Malabar Hill at Bombay
• 2:41:52
  on the twentieth October, I condemned the said Passepartout to imprisonment for fifteen days
• 2:42:00
  and a fine of three hundred pounds. Three hundred pounds, cried Passepartout,
• 2:42:05
  startled at the largeness of the sum silence, shouted the Constable, And inasmuch
• 2:42:13
  continued the Judge, as it is not proved that the act was not done
• 2:42:18
  by the connivance of the master with the servant, and as the master in
• 2:42:22
  any case must be held responsible for the acts of his paid servant, I
• 2:42:26
  condemn Phileas Fogg to a week's imprisonment and a fine of one hundred and fifty
• 2:42:31
  pounds. Fix rubbed his hands softly with satisfaction. If Phileas Fogg could be
• 2:42:37
  detained in Calcutta a week, it would be more than time for the warrant
• 2:42:41
  to arrive. Passepartout was stupefied. This sentence ruined his master, a wager
• 2:42:48
  of twenty thousand pounds lost, because he, like a precious fool, had
• 2:42:54
  gone into that abominable pagoda. Phileas Fogg, as self composed as if the
• 2:43:01
  judgment did not in the least concern him, did not even lift his eyebrows
• 2:43:05
  while it was being pronounced. Just as the clerk was calling the next case,
• 2:43:11
  he rose and said, I offer bail. You have that right,
• 2:43:16
  returned the judge. Fix's blood ran cold, but he resumed his composure when
• 2:43:22
  he heard the judge announce that the bail required for each prisoner would be one
• 2:43:26
  thousand pounds. I will pay it at once, said mister Fogg, taking
• 2:43:33
  a roll of bank bills from the carpet bag which Passepartout had by him,
• 2:43:37
  and placing them on the clerk's desk. The sum will be restored to you
• 2:43:41
  upon your release from prison, said the judge. Meanwhile, you are liberated
• 2:43:46
  on bail. Come, said Phileas Fogg to his servant. But let them
• 2:43:52
  at least give me back my shoes, cried Passepartout angrily. Ah these are
• 2:43:58
  pretty, my dear shoes, he muttered, as they were handed to him
• 2:44:03
  more than a thousand pounds apiece. Besides, they'd pinch my feet. Mister
• 2:44:09
  Fogg, offering his arm to Aouda, then departed, followed by the crestfall
• 2:44:13
  in passepartout. Fix still nourished hopes that the robber would not, after all
• 2:44:20
  leave the two thousand pounds behind him, but would decide to serve out his
• 2:44:24
  week in jail, and issued forth on mister Fogg's traces. That gentleman took
• 2:44:30
  a carriage, and the party were soon landed on one of the keys.
• 2:44:33
  The rangoon was moored half a mile off in the harbor, its signal of
• 2:44:37
  departure hoisted at the mastead eleven o'clock was striking. Mister Fogg was an hour
• 2:44:43
  in advance of time. Fix saw them leave the carriage and push off in
• 2:44:48
  a boat for the steamer, and stamped his feet with disappointment. The rascal
• 2:44:54
  is off after all, he exclaimed, two thousand pounds sight Sacri. He's
• 2:45:01
  as prodigal as a thief. I'll follow him to the end of the world
• 2:45:05
  if necessary, but at the rate he is going on, the stolen money
• 2:45:09
  will soon be exhausted. The detective was not far wrong in making this conjecture,
• 2:45:15
  since leaving London, what with traveling expenses, bribes, the purchase of
• 2:45:20
  the elephant, bales and fines, mister Fogg had already spent more than five
• 2:45:24
  thousand pounds on the way, and the percentage of the sum recovered from the
• 2:45:28
  bank robber promised to the detectives was rapidly diminishing end of chapter chapter sixteen,
• 2:45:39
  in which Fix does not seem to understand in the least what is said to
• 2:45:43
  him. The Rangoon, one of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's boats plying in
• 2:45:52
  the Chinese and Japanese seas, was a screw steamer built of iron, weighing
• 2:45:56
  about seventeen hundred seventy tons and with engines of four hundred horse power. She
• 2:46:03
  was as fast, but not as well fitted up as the Mongolia, and
• 2:46:07
  Aouda was not as comfortably provided for on board of her as phileas Fogg could
• 2:46:11
  have wished. However, the trip from Calcutta to Hong Kong only comprised some
• 2:46:16
  three thousand, five hundred miles, occupying from ten to twelve days, and
• 2:46:22
  the young woman was not difficult to please. During the first days of the
• 2:46:26
  journey, Aouda became better acquainted with her protector and constantly gave evidence of her
• 2:46:31
  deep gratitude for what he had done. The phlegmatic gentleman listened to her,
• 2:46:37
  apparently at least with coldness, neither his voice nor his manner betraying the slightest
• 2:46:41
  emotion, but he seemed to be always on the watch that nothing should be
• 2:46:46
  wanting to Aouda's comfort. He visited her regularly each day at certain hours,
• 2:46:52
  not so much to talk himself as to sit and hear her talk. He
• 2:46:56
  treated her with the strictest politeness, but with the precision of an automaton,
• 2:47:03
  the movements of which have been arranged for this purpose. Aouda did not know
• 2:47:07
  quite what to make of him, though Passepartout had given her some hints of
• 2:47:11
  his master's eccentricity and made her smile by telling her of the wager which was
• 2:47:16
  sending him around the world. After all, she owed Phileas fogg her life,
• 2:47:22
  and she always regarded him through the exalting medium of her gratitude. Aouda
• 2:47:28
  confirmed the Parsi Guide's narrative of her touching history. She did indeed belong to
• 2:47:33
  the highest of the native races of India. Many of the Parsi merchants have
• 2:47:39
  made great fortunes there by dealing in cotton, and one of them, Sir
• 2:47:43
  Jamut c jijib Hooi, was made a baronet by the English government. Aouda
• 2:47:50
  was a relative of this great man, and it was her cousin Jiji,
• 2:47:54
  whom she hoped to join at Hong Kong. Whether she would find a protector
• 2:47:58
  in him, she could not tell. But mister fogg essayed to calm her
• 2:48:03
  anxieties and to assure her that everything would be Mathematically he used the very word
• 2:48:09
  arranged. Aouda fastened her great eyes clear as the sacred lakes of the Himalaya
• 2:48:16
  upon him. But the intractable fog, as reserved as ever, did not
• 2:48:20
  seem at all inclined to throw himself into this lake. The first few days
• 2:48:26
  of the voyage passed prosperously amid favorable weather and propitious winds, and they soon
• 2:48:31
  came in sight of the great Andaman, the principle of the islands in the
• 2:48:35
  Bay of Bengal, with its picturesque saddle peak two thousand, four hundred feet
• 2:48:41
  high, looming above the waters. The steamer passed along near the shores,
• 2:48:46
  but the savage Papuans, who are in the lowest scale of humanity but are
• 2:48:52
  not, as has been asserted, cannibals, did not make their appearance.
• 2:48:56
  The panorama of the islands, as they steemed by them, was superb.
• 2:49:01
  Vast forests of palms, racks, bamboo, teak, wood of the giant
• 2:49:07
  mimosa, and treelike ferns covered the foreground, while behind the graceful outlines of
• 2:49:13
  the mountains were traced against the sky, and along the coast swarmed by thousands
• 2:49:18
  the precious swallows, whose nests furnish a luxurious dish to the tables of the
• 2:49:24
  celestial Empire. The varied landscape afforded by the Andaman Islands was soon passed,
• 2:49:30
  however, and the Rangoon rapidly approached the Straits of Malacca, which gave access
• 2:49:35
  to the China Seas. What was Detective Fix so unluckily drawn on from country
• 2:49:43
  to country doing all this while he had managed to embark on the Rangoon at
• 2:49:48
  Calcutta without being seen by passepartout after leaving orders that if the warrant should arrive,
• 2:49:54
  it should be forwarded to him in Hong Kong, and he hoped to
• 2:49:58
  conceal his presence to the end of the voyage. It would have been difficult
• 2:50:03
  to explain why he was on board without awakening Passepartout's suspicions, who thought him
• 2:50:09
  still at Bombay. But necessity impelled him nevertheless to renew his acquaintance with the
• 2:50:15
  worthy servant. As will be seen, all that detective hopes and wishes were
• 2:50:20
  now centered on Hong Kong. For the steamer's stay at Singapore would be too
• 2:50:26
  brief to enable him to take any steps there. The arrest must be made
• 2:50:31
  at Hong Kong, or the robber would probably escape him forever. Hong Kong
• 2:50:35
  was the last English ground on which he could set foot. Beyond China,
• 2:50:41
  Japan America offered to Fog an almost certain refuge. If the warrant should at
• 2:50:48
  last make its appearance at Hong Kong, fix could arrest him and give him
• 2:50:52
  into the hands of the local police, and there would be no further trouble.
• 2:50:56
  But beyond Hong Kong, a simple warrant would be of no avail.
• 2:51:01
  An extradition warrant would be necessary, and that would result in delays and obstacles,
• 2:51:07
  of which the Rascal would take advantage to elude justice. Fix thought over
• 2:51:13
  these probabilities during the long hours which he spent in his cabin, and kept
• 2:51:18
  repeating to himself. Now, either the warrant will be at Hong Kong,
• 2:51:22
  in which case I shall arrest my man, or it will not be there,
• 2:51:26
  And this time it is absolutely necessary that I should delay his departure.
• 2:51:31
  I have failed at Bombay and I have failed at Calcutta. If I fail
• 2:51:37
  at Hong Kong, my reputation is lost. Cost what it may, I
• 2:51:41
  must succeed. But how shall I prevent his departure? If that should turn
• 2:51:46
  out to be my last resource. Fix made up his mind that if worst
• 2:51:52
  came to worst, he would make a confidant of Passepartout and tell him what
• 2:51:58
  kind of a fellow his master really was. That Passepartout was not Fogg's accomplice.
• 2:52:03
  He was very certain the servant, enlightened by his disclosure and afraid of
• 2:52:09
  being himself implicated in the crime, would doubtless become an ally of the detective.
• 2:52:16
  But this method was a dangerous one, only to be employed when everything
• 2:52:20
  else had failed. A word from Passepartout to his master would ruin all.
• 2:52:26
  The detective was therefore in a sore strait, But suddenly a new idea struck
• 2:52:31
  him. The presence of Aouda on the rangoon in company with Phileas Fogg gave
• 2:52:37
  him new material for reflection. Who was this woman? What combination of events
• 2:52:45
  had made her Fogg's traveling companion. They had evidently met somewhere between Bombay and
• 2:52:50
  Calcutta. But where had they met accidentally? Or had Fogg gone into the
• 2:52:56
  interior purposely in quest of the charming damsel? Fix was fairly puzzled. He
• 2:53:03
  asked himself whether there had not been a wicked elopement. And this idea so
• 2:53:07
  impressed itself upon his mind that he determined to make use of the supposed intrigue.
• 2:53:13
  Whether the young woman was married or not, he would be able to
• 2:53:18
  create such difficulties for mister Fogg at Hong Kong that he could not escape by
• 2:53:22
  paying any amount of money. But could he even wait till they reached Hong
• 2:53:28
  Kong. Fog had an abominable way of jumping from one boat to another,
• 2:53:33
  and before anything could be effected, might get full under way again. For
• 2:53:37
  Yokohama. Fix decided that he must warn the English authorities and signal the rangoon
• 2:53:43
  before her arrival. This was easy to do since the steamer stopped at Singapore,
• 2:53:50
  whence there is a telegraphic wire to Hong Kong. He finally resolved moreover
• 2:53:54
  before acting more positively to question Passepartout, it would not be difficult to make
• 2:54:01
  him talk, and as there was no time to lose, Fix prepared to
• 2:54:05
  make himself known. It was now the thirtieth of October, and on the
• 2:54:11
  following day the rangoon was due at Singapore. Fix emerged from his cabin and
• 2:54:16
  went on deck. Passe Partout was promenading up and down in the forward part
• 2:54:22
  of the steamer. The detective rushed forward with every appearance of extreme surprise and
• 2:54:28
  exclaimed, you here on the rangoon. What monsieur Fix saw you on board?
• 2:54:35
  Returned the really astonished Passepartout, recognizing his crony of the Mongolia. Why
• 2:54:41
  I left you at Bombay and here you are on the way to Hong Kong.
• 2:54:46
  Are you going round the world too? No, no, replied Fix.
• 2:54:52
  I shall stop at Hong Kong at least for some days, hm said
• 2:54:58
  Passepartout, who seemed for an instant perplexed, but how is it that I
• 2:55:03
  have not seen you on board since we left Calcutta. Oh ah, a
• 2:55:09
  trifle of sea sickness. I've been staying in my berth. The Gulf of
• 2:55:13
  Bengal does not agree with me as well as the Indian Ocean. And how
• 2:55:18
  is mister Fogg as well and as punctual as ever? Not a day behind
• 2:55:24
  time? But monsieur Fix, you don't know that we have a young lady
• 2:55:28
  with us. A young lady, replied the detective, not seeming to comprehend
• 2:55:33
  what was said. Passepartout thereupon recounted Aouda's history, the affair of the Bombay
• 2:55:41
  Pagoda, the purchase of the elephant for two thousand pounds, the rescue,
• 2:55:46
  the arrest and sentence of the Calcutta court, and the restoration of mister Fogg
• 2:55:52
  and himself to liberty on bail. Fix, who was familiar with the last
• 2:55:56
  events, seemed to be equally ignorant of all the Passepartou really, and the
• 2:56:01
  latter was charmed to find so interested a listener. But does your master propose
• 2:56:07
  to carry this young woman to Europe? Not at all. We are simply
• 2:56:11
  going to place her under the protection of one of her relatives, a rich
• 2:56:16
  merchant at Hong Kong. Nothing to be done there, said Fix to himself,
• 2:56:22
  concealing his disappointment a glass of gin, Mister Paspartout willingly, Monsieur Fix,
• 2:56:31
  we must at least have a friendly glass on board the Rangoon. End
• 2:56:35
  of chapter Chapter seventeen, showing what happened on the voyage from Singapore to Hong
• 2:56:43
  Kong. The detective and Passepartout met often on deck after this interview, though
• 2:56:50
  Fix was reserved and did not attempt to induce his companion to divulge anymore facts
• 2:56:56
  concerning mister Fogg. He caught a glimpse of the mysterious gentleman once or twice,
• 2:57:01
  but mister Fogg usually confined himself to the cabin where he kept aouda company,
• 2:57:07
  or, according to his inveterate habit took a hand at whist Passepartout began
• 2:57:13
  very seriously to conjecture what strange chance kept Fix still on the route that his
• 2:57:18
  master was pursuing. It was really worth considering why this certainly very amiable and
• 2:57:24
  complacent person whom he had first met at Suez, had then encountered on board
• 2:57:31
  the Mongolia, who disembarked at Bombay, which he announced as his destination,
• 2:57:35
  and now turned up so unexpectedly on the rangoon was following mister Fogg's tracks step
• 2:57:43
  by step. What was Fix's object? Passepartout was ready to wager his Indian
• 2:57:50
  shoes, which he had religiously preserved, that Fix would also leave Hong Kong
• 2:57:56
  at the same time with them, and probably on the same steamer. Passepartout
• 2:58:01
  might have cudgeled his brain for a century without hitting upon the real object which
• 2:58:05
  the detective had in view. He never could have imagined that Phileas Fogg was
• 2:58:11
  being tracked as a robber around the globe. But as it is in human
• 2:58:16
  nature to attempt the solution of every mystery, Passepartout suddenly discovered an explanation of
• 2:58:22
  Fix's movements which was in truth far from unreasonable. Fix, he thought,
• 2:58:28
  could only be an agent of mister Fogg's friends at the Reform Club, sent
• 2:58:31
  to follow him up and to ascertain that he really went round the world as
• 2:58:37
  had been agreed upon. It's clear, repeated the worthy servant to himself,
• 2:58:43
  proud of his shrewdness. He's a spy sent to keep us in view.
• 2:58:48
  That isn't quite the thing either, to be spying mister Fogg, who is
• 2:58:52
  so honorable a man, Ah, gentlemen of the reform, this cell cost
• 2:58:56
  you. Dear Passepartout, enchanted with his discovery, resolved to say nothing to
• 2:59:03
  his master, lest he should be justly offended at this mistrust on the part
• 2:59:07
  of his adversaries. But he determined to cheff Fix when he had the chance,
• 2:59:13
  with mysterious allusions, which, however, need not betray his real suspicions.
• 2:59:20
  During the afternoon of Wednesday, thirtieth October, the rangoon entered the Strait
• 2:59:24
  of Malaca, which separates the peninsula of that name from Sumatra. The mountainous
• 2:59:31
  and craggy islets intercepted the beauties of this noble island from the view of the
• 2:59:35
  travelers. The rangoon weighed anchor at Singapore the next day at four a m.
• 2:59:41
  To receive coal, having gained half a day on the prescribed time of
• 2:59:45
  her arrival. Phileas Fogg noted this gain in his journal, and then,
• 2:59:50
  accompanied by Aouda who betrayed a desire for a walk on shore, disembarked Fix,
• 2:59:58
  who suspected mister Fogg's every movement followed them cautiously without being himself perceived,
• 3:00:05
  while passepartout, laughing in his sleeve at Fix's maneuvers, went about his usual
• 3:00:09
  errands. The island of Singapore is not imposing in aspect, for there are
• 3:00:16
  no mountains, Yet its appearance is not without attractions. It is a park
• 3:00:20
  checkered by pleasant highways and avenues. A handsome carriage, drawn by a sleek
• 3:00:26
  pair of New Holland horses, carried Phileas Fogg and Aouda into the midst of
• 3:00:31
  rows of palms with brilliant foliage and of clove trees, whereof the cloves form
• 3:00:37
  the heart of a half open flower. Pepper plants replaced the prickly hedges of
• 3:00:43
  European fields. Sago bushes, large ferns with gorgeous branches varied the aspect of
• 3:00:50
  this tropical climb, while nutmeg trees in full foliage filled the air with a
• 3:00:54
  penetrating perfume. Agile and grinning bands of monkeys skipped about in the trees,
• 3:01:01
  nor were tigers wanting in the jungles. After a drive of two hours through
• 3:01:07
  the country, Aouda and mister Fogg returned to the town which is a vast
• 3:01:11
  collection of heavy looking, irregular houses, surrounded by charming gardens rich in tropical
• 3:01:18
  fruits and plants. And at ten o'clock they re embarked, closely followed by
• 3:01:24
  the detective who had kept them constantly in sight. Passepartout, who had been
• 3:01:30
  purchasing several dozen mangoes, a fruit as large as good sized apples, of
• 3:01:35
  a dark brown color outside and a bright red within, and whose white pulp
• 3:01:39
  melting in the mouth affords Gourmand's a delicious sensation, was waiting for them on
• 3:01:46
  deck. He was only too glad to offer some mangoes to Aouda, who
• 3:01:50
  thanked him very gracefully for them. At eleven o'clock the rangoon rode out of
• 3:01:56
  Singapore Harbor, and in a few hours the high mountains of Malacca would their
• 3:02:01
  forests, inhabited by the most beautifully furred tigers in the world, were lost
• 3:02:07
  to view. Singapore is distant, some thirteen hundred miles from the island of
• 3:02:11
  Hong Kong, which is a little English colony near the Chinese coast. Phileas
• 3:02:18
  Fogg hoped to accomplish the journey in six days so as to be in time
• 3:02:22
  for the steamer, which would leave on the sixth of November for Yokohama,
• 3:02:26
  the principal Japanese port. The Rangoon had a large quota of passengers, many
• 3:02:31
  of whom disembarked at Singapore, among them a number of Indians, Ceylonese,
• 3:02:37
  Chinamen, Malays and Portuguese, mostly second class travelers. The weather, which
• 3:02:45
  had hitherto been fine, changed with the last quarter of the moon. The
• 3:02:50
  seas rolled heavily, and the wind at intervals rose almost to a storm,
• 3:02:54
  but happily blew from the southwest and thus aided the steamer's progress. The captain,
• 3:03:00
  as often as possible, put up his sails, and under the double
• 3:03:03
  action of steam and sail, the vessel made rapid progress along the coasts of
• 3:03:07
  Anam and Cochin, China. Owing to the defective construction of the Rangoon,
• 3:03:13
  however, unusual precautions became necessary in unfavorable weather, But the loss of time
• 3:03:20
  which resulted from this cause, while it nearly drove past Partu out of his
• 3:03:24
  senses, did not seem to effect his master in the least Passpartu blamed the
• 3:03:30
  captain, the engineer, and the crew, and consigned all who were connected
• 3:03:35
  with the ship to the land where the pepper grows. Perhaps the thought of
• 3:03:39
  the gas, which was remorselessly burning at his expense in savile row, had
• 3:03:43
  something to do with his hot impatience. You are in a great hurry,
• 3:03:48
  then said Fix to him one day to reach Hong Kong, A very great
• 3:03:54
  hurry, mister Fogg, I suppose is anxious to catch the steamer for Yokohama,
• 3:04:01
  terribly anxious. You believe in this journey around the world, then absolutely
• 3:04:07
  don't you, mister fix I, I don't believe a word of it.
• 3:04:15
  You're a sly dog, said Passepartout, winking at him. This expression rather
• 3:04:20
  disturbed Fix, without his knowing why had the Frenchman guessed his real purpose?
• 3:04:26
  He knew not what to think, But how could Passepartout have discovered that he
• 3:04:31
  was a detective? Yet in speaking as he did, the man evidently meant
• 3:04:37
  more than he expressed. Passepartout went still further the next day. He could
• 3:04:41
  not hold his tongue. Mister Fix, said he in a bantering tone.
• 3:04:48
  Shall we be so unfortunate as to lose you when we get to Hong Kong,
• 3:04:54
  why, responded Fix, a little embarrassed. I don't know. Perhaps,
• 3:05:00
  apps, Ah, if you could only go on with us, an
• 3:05:03
  agent of the Peninsular Company, you know, can't stop on the way.
• 3:05:09
  You were only going to Bombay, and here you are in China. America
• 3:05:13
  is not far off, and from America to Europe is only a step.
• 3:05:18
  Fix looked intently at his companion, whose countenance was as serene as possible,
• 3:05:24
  and laughed with him. But Passepartout persisted in chaffing him by asking him if
• 3:05:30
  he made much by his present occupation. Yes, and no, returned Fix.
• 3:05:37
  There is good and bad luck in such things. But you must understand
• 3:05:41
  that I don't travel at my own expense. Oh I am quite sure of
• 3:05:46
  that, cried Passepartout, laughing heartily. Fix, fairly puzzled, descended to
• 3:05:52
  his cabin and gave himself up to his reflections. He was evidently suspected somehow
• 3:05:58
  or other. The Frenchman had found out that he was a detective. But
• 3:06:03
  had he told his master what part was he playing in all this? Was
• 3:06:07
  he an accomplice or not? Was the game then up? Fix spent several
• 3:06:13
  hours turning these things over in his mind, sometimes thinking that all was lost,
• 3:06:18
  then persuading himself that Fog was ignorant of his presence, and then undecided
• 3:06:24
  what course it was best to take. Nevertheless, he preserved his coolness of
• 3:06:28
  mind and at last resolved to deal plainly with Passepartout. If he did not
• 3:06:35
  find it practicable to arrest Fog at Hong Kong, and if Fogg made preparations
• 3:06:41
  to leave that last foothold of English territory, he Fix would tell Passepartout all.
• 3:06:48
  Either the servant was the accomplice of his master, and in this case
• 3:06:52
  the master knew of his operations and he should fail, or else the servant
• 3:06:56
  knew nothing about the robbery, and then his interest would be to abandon the
• 3:07:01
  robber. Such was the situation between Fix and Passepartout. Meanwhile, Phileas Fogg
• 3:07:07
  moved about above them in the most majestic and unconscious indifference. He was passing
• 3:07:13
  methodically in his orbit around the world, regardless of the lesser stars which gravitated
• 3:07:20
  around him. Yet there was nearby what the astronomers would call a disturbing star,
• 3:07:26
  which might have produced an agitation in this gentleman's heart. But no,
• 3:07:31
  the charms of Aouda failed to act to Passepartout's great surprise, and the disturbances,
• 3:07:37
  if they existed, would have been more difficult to calculate than those of
• 3:07:43
  Uranus which led to the discovery of Neptune. It was every day an increasing
• 3:07:48
  wonder to Passepartout, who read in Aouda's eyes the depths of her gratitude to
• 3:07:52
  his master Phileas Fogg. Though brave and gallant must be, he thought quite
• 3:08:00
  heartless as to the sentiment which this journey might have awakened in him. There
• 3:08:05
  was clearly no trace of such a thing. While poor Passepartout existed in perpetual
• 3:08:11
  reveries. One day he was leaning on the railing of the engine room and
• 3:08:16
  was observing the engine when a sudden pitch of the steamer threw the screw out
• 3:08:20
  of the water. The steam came hissing out of the valves, and this
• 3:08:24
  made Passepartout indignant. The valves are not sufficiently charged, he exclaimed. We
• 3:08:31
  are not going oh these English If this was an American craft, we should
• 3:08:37
  blow up, perhaps, but we should at all events go faster. End
• 3:08:43
  of chapter chapter eighteen, in which Phileas Fogg, Passepartout and fix go each
• 3:08:50
  about his business. The weather was bad during the latter days of the voyage.
• 3:08:58
  The wind obstinately remaining in the northwest, blew a gale and retarded the
• 3:09:03
  steamer. The rangoon rolled heavily, and the passengers became impatient of the long,
• 3:09:07
  monstrous waves which the wind raised before their path. A sort of tempest
• 3:09:13
  arose on the third of November, the squall knocking the vessel about with fury,
• 3:09:18
  and the waves running high. The rangoon reefed all her sails, and
• 3:09:22
  even the rigging proved too much whistling and shaking amid the squall. The steamer
• 3:09:28
  was forced to proceed slowly, and the captain estimated that she would reach Hong
• 3:09:31
  Kong twenty hours behind time, and more if the storm lasted. Phileas Fogg
• 3:09:39
  gazed at the tempestuous sea would seem to be struggling, especially to delay him.
• 3:09:43
  With his habitual tranquility, he never changed countenance for an instant, though
• 3:09:48
  a delay of twenty hours, by making him too late for the Yokohama boat,
• 3:09:52
  would almost inevitably cause the loss of the wager. But this man of
• 3:09:58
  nerve manifest neither impatience nor annoyance. It seemed as if the storm were a
• 3:10:03
  part of his program and had been foreseen. Aouda was amazed to find him
• 3:10:09
  as calm as he had been from the first time she saw him. Fix
• 3:10:13
  did not look at the state of things in the same light. The storm
• 3:10:16
  greatly pleased him. His satisfaction would have been complete had the rangoon been forced
• 3:10:22
  to retreat before the violence of wind and waves. Each delay filled him with
• 3:10:26
  hope, for it became more and more probable that fog would be obliged to
• 3:10:31
  remain some days at Hong Kong. And now the heavens themselves became his allies.
• 3:10:37
  With the gusts and squalls. It mattered not that they made him sea
• 3:10:41
  sick. He made no account of this inconvenience, and whilst his body was
• 3:10:46
  writhing under their effects, his spirit bounded with hopeful exultation. Passepartout was enraged
• 3:10:52
  beyond expression by the unpropitious weather. Everything had gone so well till now earth
• 3:10:58
  and sea had seen to be had his master's service. Steamers and railways obeyed
• 3:11:03
  him. Wind and steam united to speed his journey. Had the hour of
• 3:11:07
  adversity come past, Partout was as much excited as if the twenty thousand pounds
• 3:11:13
  were to come from his own pocket. The storm exasperated him. The gale
• 3:11:18
  made him furious, and he longed to lash the obstinate sea into obedience.
• 3:11:24
  Poor fellow Fix carefully concealed from him his own satisfaction, for had he betrayed
• 3:11:30
  it, past Partou could scarcely have restrained himself from personal violence. Past Partou
• 3:11:37
  remained on deck as long as the tempest lasted, being unable to remain quiet
• 3:11:41
  below, and taking it into his head to aid the progress of the ship
• 3:11:46
  by lending a hand with the crew. He overwhelmed the captain, officers and
• 3:11:50
  sailors, who could not help laughing at his impatience with all sorts of questions.
• 3:11:56
  He wanted to know exactly how long the storm was going to last.
• 3:12:01
  Where Poni was referred to the barometer, which seemed to have no intention of
• 3:12:05
  rising, pass Partou shook it, but with no perceptible effect, for neither
• 3:12:11
  shaking nor maledictions could prevail upon it to change its mind. On the fourth,
• 3:12:16
  however, the sea became more calm and the storm lessened its violence.
• 3:12:20
  The wind veered southward and was once more favorable. Pass Partu cleared up with
• 3:12:26
  the weather. Some of the sails were unfurled and the rangoon resumed its most
• 3:12:31
  rapid speed. The time loss could not, however, be regained. Land
• 3:12:37
  was not signaled until five o'clock in the morning of the sixth. The steamer
• 3:12:41
  was due on the fifth Phileas Fogg was twenty four hours behindhand, and the
• 3:12:46
  Yokohama steamer would of course be missed, the pilot went on board at six
• 3:12:52
  and took his place on the bridge to guide the rangoon through the channels to
• 3:12:56
  the port of Hong Kong. Past Partout longed to ask him if the steamer
• 3:13:00
  had left for Yokohama, but he dared not, for he wished to preserve
• 3:13:05
  the spark of hope, which still remained till the last moment he had confided
• 3:13:09
  his anxiety to fix who The sly rascal tried to console him by saying that
• 3:13:16
  mister Fogg would be in time if he took the next boat, but this
• 3:13:20
  only put Passepartout in a passion. Mister Fogg, bolder than his servant,
• 3:13:24
  did not hesitate to approach the pilot and tranquility ask him if he knew when
• 3:13:30
  a steamer would leave Hong Kong for Yokohama at high tide tomorrow morning, answered
• 3:13:37
  the pilot. Ah, said mister Fogg, without betraying any astonishment. Passepartout,
• 3:13:43
  who heard what passed, would willingly have embraced the pilot, while fix
• 3:13:48
  would have been glad to twist his neck. What is the steamer's name,
• 3:13:52
  asked mister Fogg. The carnatic ought she not have gone yesterday? Yes,
• 3:14:01
  sir, but they had to repair one of her boilers, and so her
• 3:14:05
  departure was postponed till tomorrow. Thank you, returned mister Fogg, Descending mathematically
• 3:14:11
  to the saloon, Passepartu clasped the pilot's hand and shook it heartily in his
• 3:14:18
  delight, exclaiming, Pilot, you are the best of good fellows. The
• 3:14:24
  pilot probably does not know to this day why his responses won him this enthusiastic
• 3:14:28
  greeting. He remounted the bridge and guided the steamer through the flotilla of junks,
• 3:14:33
  tankas, and fishing boats which crowd the harbor of Hong Kong. At
• 3:14:39
  one o'clock, the rangoon was at the quay and the passengers were going ashore.
• 3:14:45
  Chance had strangely favored Phileas Fogg for had not the Carnatic been forced to
• 3:14:50
  lie over for repairing her boilers, she would have left on the sixth of
• 3:14:54
  November, and the passengers for Japan would have been obliged to await for a
• 3:14:58
  week the sailing of the next stay. Mister Fogg was, it is true,
• 3:15:03
  twenty four hours behind his time, but this could not seriously imperil the
• 3:15:07
  remainder of his tour. The steamer which crossed the Pacific from Yokohama to San
• 3:15:13
  Francisco made a direct connection with that from Hong Kong, and it could not
• 3:15:18
  sail until the latter reached Yokohama. And if mister Fogg was twenty four hours
• 3:15:22
  late on reaching Yokohama, this time would no doubt be easily regained. In
• 3:15:26
  the voyage of twenty two days across the Pacific. He found himself then about
• 3:15:31
  twenty four hours behindhand. Thirty five days after leaving London, the Carnatic was
• 3:15:39
  announced to leave Hong Kong at five the next morning. Mister Fogg had sixteen
• 3:15:43
  hours in which to attend to his business there, which was to deposit Aouda
• 3:15:48
  safely with her wealthy relative. On landing, he conducted her to a palanquin
• 3:15:54
  in which they repaired to the Club Hotel. A room was engaged for the
• 3:15:58
  young woman, and mister Fogg, after seeing that she wanted for nothing,
• 3:16:01
  set out in search of her cousin Jiji. He instructed passepartout to remain at
• 3:16:07
  the hotel until his return, that Aouda might not be left entirely alone.
• 3:16:15
  Mister Fogg repaired to the exchange, where he did not doubt everyone would know
• 3:16:20
  so wealthy and considerable a personage as the Parsi merchant. Meeting a broker,
• 3:16:24
  he made the inquiry to learn that Jiji had left China two years before,
• 3:16:28
  and, retiring from business with an immense fortune, had taken up his residence
• 3:16:33
  in Europe, in Holland. The broker thought with the merchants of which country
• 3:16:39
  he had principally traded Phileas Fogg returned to the hotel, begged a moment's conversation
• 3:16:46
  with Aouda, and without more Ado apprised her that Jigji was no longer at
• 3:16:50
  Hong Kong, but probably in Holland. Aouda at first said nothing. She
• 3:16:56
  passed her hand across her forehead and reflected a few moments, then in her
• 3:17:01
  sweet soft voice, she said, what ought I to do, mister Fogg.
• 3:17:07
  It is very simple, responded the gentleman, go on to Europe,
• 3:17:13
  but I cannot intrude. You do not intrude, nor do you in the
• 3:17:18
  least embarrass my project. Passepartout. Messieurs go to the Carnatic and engage three
• 3:17:26
  cabins. Passepartout, delighted that the young woman who was very gracious to him,
• 3:17:31
  was going to continue the journey with them, went off at a brisk
• 3:17:35
  gait to obey his master's order. End of chapter Chapter nineteen, in which
• 3:17:43
  Passepartout takes a too great interest in his master and what comes of it.
• 3:17:50
  Hong Kong is an island which came into the possession of the English by the
• 3:17:54
  Treaty of Nankin after the War of eighteen forty two, and the columnizing genius
• 3:18:00
  of the English has created upon it an important city and an excellent port.
• 3:18:05
  The island is situated at the mouth of the Canton River and is separated by
• 3:18:09
  about sixty miles from the Portuguese town of Macao on the opposite coast. Hong
• 3:18:16
  Kong has beaten Macao in the struggle for the Chinese trade, and now the
• 3:18:20
  greater part of the transportation of Chinese goods finds its depot at the former place.
• 3:18:26
  Docks, hospitals, wharves, a Gothic cathedral, a government house,
• 3:18:31
  macadamized streets give to Hong Kong the appearance of a town in Kent or Surrey,
• 3:18:37
  transformed by some strange magic to the antipodes. Passepartout wandered with his hands
• 3:18:43
  in his pockets towards the Victoria Port, gazing as he went at the curious
• 3:18:48
  palanquins and other modes of conveyance, and the groups of Chinese, Japanese and
• 3:18:54
  Europeans who passed to and fro in the streets. Hong Kong seemed to him
• 3:18:58
  not unlike Bombay, Calcutta and Singapore, since like them, it betrayed everywhere
• 3:19:03
  the evidence of English supremacy. At the Victoria Port, he found a confused
• 3:19:09
  mass of ships of all nations, English, French, American and Dutch men
• 3:19:15
  of war and trading vessels, Japanese and Chinese junks, sempas, tankas and
• 3:19:20
  flower boats, which formed so many floating parterres. Pastpartu noticed in the crowd
• 3:19:26
  a number of the natives who seemed very old, and were dressed in yellow.
• 3:19:31
  On going into a barber's to get shaved, he learned that these ancient
• 3:19:35
  men were all at least eighty years old, at which age they are permitted
• 3:19:39
  to wear yellow, which is the imperial color. Pastpartu, without exactly knowing
• 3:19:46
  why, thought this very funny. On reaching the key where they were to
• 3:19:52
  embark on the carnatic, he was not astonished to find Fis walking up and
• 3:19:56
  down. The detectives seemed very much disturbed disappointed. This is bad, muttered
• 3:20:03
  Passepartout for the gentleman of the Reform club. He accosted Fix with a merry
• 3:20:09
  smile, as if he had not perceived that gentleman's chagrin. The detective had
• 3:20:15
  indeed good reasons to inveigh against the bad luck which pursued him. The warrant
• 3:20:20
  had not come. It was certainly on the way, but as certainly it
• 3:20:24
  could not now reach Hong Kong for several days, and this being the last
• 3:20:28
  English territory on mister Fogg's route, the robber would escape unless he could manage
• 3:20:33
  to detain him. Well, Monsieur Fix, said Passepartout, Have you decided
• 3:20:41
  to go with us? So far as America, Yes, returned Fix through
• 3:20:46
  his set teeth good, exclaimed Passepartout, laughing heartily. I knew you could
• 3:20:52
  not persuade yourself to separate from us. Come and engage your birth. They
• 3:20:58
  entered the steamer office and secured cabins for four persons. The clerk, as
• 3:21:03
  he gave them the tickets, informed them that the repairs on the Carnatic having
• 3:21:07
  been completed, the steamer would leave that very evening, and not next morning
• 3:21:11
  as had been announced. That will suit my master all the better, said
• 3:21:16
  Passepartout, I will go and let him know. Fix now decided to make
• 3:21:22
  a bold move. He resolved to tell Passepartout all. It seemed to be
• 3:21:28
  the only possible way to keep Phileas Fogg several days longer. At Hong Kong.
• 3:21:31
  He accordingly invited his companion into a tavern which caught his eye on the
• 3:21:35
  quay. On entering, they found themselves in a large room, handsomely decorated,
• 3:21:41
  at the end of which was a large camp bed furnished with cushions.
• 3:21:46
  Several persons lay upon this bed in a deep sleep. At the small tables
• 3:21:50
  which were arranged about the room, some thirty customers were drinking English beer,
• 3:21:56
  porter gin and brandy, smoking the while long red clay pipes stuffed with little
• 3:22:03
  balls of opium mingled with the essence of rose. From time to time,
• 3:22:07
  one of the smokers, overcome with a narcotic, would slip under the table,
• 3:22:13
  whereupon the waiters, taking him by the head and feet, carried and
• 3:22:16
  laid him upon the bed. The bed already supported twenty of these stupefied sots
• 3:22:24
  fix and passepartouts saw that they were in a smoking house, haunted by those
• 3:22:28
  wretched, cadaverous, idiotic creatures to whom the English merchants sell every year the
• 3:22:33
  miserable drug called opium, to the amount of one million, four hundred thousand
• 3:22:39
  pounds thousands devoted to one of the most despicable vices which afflict humanity, the
• 3:22:46
  Chinese government has in vain attempted to deal with the evil by stringent laws.
• 3:22:50
  It passed gradually from the rich, to whom it was at first exclusively reserved
• 3:22:56
  to the lower classes, and then its ravages could not be arrested. Opium
• 3:23:01
  is smoked everywhere, at all times by men and women in the Celestial Empire,
• 3:23:07
  and once accustomed to it. The victims cannot dispense with it except by
• 3:23:11
  suffering horrible bodily contortions and agonies. A great smoker can smoke as many as
• 3:23:18
  eight pipes a day, but he dies in five years. It was in
• 3:23:22
  one of these dens that Fix and Passepartout, in search of a friendly glass,
• 3:23:26
  found themselves. Passepartout had no money, but willingly accepted Fix's invitation in
• 3:23:33
  the hope of returning the obligation at some future time. They ordered two bottles
• 3:23:39
  of port, to which the Frenchman did ample justice. Whilst Fix observed him
• 3:23:43
  with close attention. They chatted about the journey, and Passepartout was especially merry
• 3:23:50
  at the idea that Fix was going to continue it with them. When the
• 3:23:54
  bottles were empty, however, he rose to go and tell his master of
• 3:23:58
  the change in the time of the sailor of the Carnatic. Fix caught him
• 3:24:03
  by the arm and said, wait a moment, what for, mister Fix,
• 3:24:09
  I want to have a serious talk with you. A serious talk,
• 3:24:13
  cried Passepartout, drinking up the little wine that was left in the bottom of
• 3:24:18
  his glass. Well, we'll talk about it tomorrow. I haven't time now.
• 3:24:24
  Stay. What I have to say concerns your master. Passepartout at this,
• 3:24:30
  looked attentively at his companion. Fix's face seemed to have a singular expression.
• 3:24:35
  He resumed his seat. What is it that you have to say?
• 3:24:41
  Fix placed his hand upon Passepartout's arm and, lowering his voice, said you
• 3:24:46
  have guessed who I am, parbleu, said Passepartout, smiling. Then I'm
• 3:24:54
  going to tell you everything. Now that I know everything, my friend.
• 3:25:00
  Ah, that's very good, but go on. Go on. First,
• 3:25:03
  though, let me tell you that those gentlemen have put themselves to a useless
• 3:25:07
  expense. Useless, said Fix. You speak confidently. It's clear that you
• 3:25:13
  don't know how large the sum is. Of course I do, returned Passepartout.
• 3:25:20
  Twenty thousand pounds. Fifty five thousand, answered Fix, pressing his companion's
• 3:25:26
  hand. What cried the Frenchman, has monsieur fog dared fifty five thousand pounds?
• 3:25:35
  Well, there's all the more reason for not losing an instant, he
• 3:25:39
  continued, Getting up hastily, Fix pushed Passepartout back in his chair and resumed
• 3:25:46
  fifty five thousand pounds. And if I succeed, I get two thousand pounds.
• 3:25:52
  If you'll help me, I'll let you have five hundred of them.
• 3:25:56
  Help you, cried Passepartout, whose eyes were standing wide open. Yes,
• 3:26:03
  help me keep mister Fogg here for two or three days. Why what are
• 3:26:07
  you saying? Those gentlemen are not satisfied with following my master and suspecting his
• 3:26:13
  honor, but they must try to put obstacles in his way. I blush
• 3:26:18
  for them. What do you mean? I mean that it is a piece
• 3:26:22
  of shameful trickery. They might as well waylay mister Fogg and put his money
• 3:26:28
  in their pockets. That's just what we count on doing. It's a conspiracy,
• 3:26:33
  then cried Passepartout, who became more and more excited as the liquor mounted
• 3:26:39
  in his head, for he drank without perceiving it. A real conspiracy.
• 3:26:43
  And gentlemen too, bah Fix began to be puzzled. Members of the Reform
• 3:26:52
  Club, continued Passepartout. You must know, Monsieur Fichs, that my master
• 3:26:58
  is an honest man, and that when he makes a wager he tries to
• 3:27:01
  win it fairly. But who do you think, I am, asked Fix,
• 3:27:07
  looking at him intently. Par Bleu, an agent at the Members of
• 3:27:13
  the Reform Club, sent out here to interrupt my master's journey. But though
• 3:27:18
  I found you out some time ago, I've taken good care to say nothing
• 3:27:20
  about it. To mister Fogg. He knows nothing. Then nothing, replied
• 3:27:28
  Passepartout again, emptying his glass. The detective passed his hand across his forehead,
• 3:27:35
  hesitating before he spoke again. What should he do? Passepartout's mistake seemed
• 3:27:39
  sincere, but it made his design more difficult. It was evident that the
• 3:27:45
  servant was not the master's accomplice, as Fix had been inclined to suspect.
• 3:27:52
  Well, said the detective to himself. As he is not an accomplice,
• 3:27:56
  he will help me. He had no time to lose. Fogg must be
• 3:28:01
  detained at Hong Kong, and he resolved to make a clean breast of it.
• 3:28:05
  Listen to me, said Fix abruptly. I am not, as you
• 3:28:09
  think, an agent of the members of the Reform Club, Bah retorted Passepartout
• 3:28:16
  with an ale of raillery. I am a police detective sent out here by
• 3:28:20
  the London Office. You a detective. I will prove it. Here is
• 3:28:26
  my commission, Passepartout was speechless with astonishment when Fix displayed this document, the
• 3:28:33
  genuineness of which could not be doubted. Mister Fogg's wager, resumed, Fix,
• 3:28:39
  is only a pretext of which you and the gentleman of the Reform are
• 3:28:43
  dupes. He had a motive for securing your innocent complicity, but why listen?
• 3:28:52
  On the twenty eighth of last September, a robbery of fifty five thousand
• 3:28:56
  pounds was committed at the Bank of England by a person whose description and was
• 3:29:00
  fortunately secured. Here is his description. It answers exactly to that of mister
• 3:29:05
  Phileas Fogg. What nonsense? Cried passepartout, striking the table with his fist.
• 3:29:13
  My master is the most honorable of men. How can you tell you
• 3:29:18
  know scarcely anything about him? You went into his service the day he came
• 3:29:22
  away, and he came away on a foolish pretext, without trunks, and
• 3:29:26
  carrying a large amount in bank notes, And yet you are bold enough to
• 3:29:31
  assert that he is an honest man. Yes, yes, repeated the poor
• 3:29:37
  fellow mechanically, would you like to be arrested as his accomplice? Passepartout,
• 3:29:43
  overcome by what he had heard, held his head between his hands, and
• 3:29:48
  did not dare to look at the detective Phileas Fogg, the savior of Aouda,
• 3:29:54
  that brave and generous man, a robber, And yet how many presumptions
• 3:29:58
  there were against him? Passepartout essayed to reject the suspicions which forced themselves upon
• 3:30:05
  his mind. He did not wish to believe that his master was guilty.
• 3:30:11
  Well, what do you want of me, said he at last, with
• 3:30:15
  an effort see here, replied Fix. I have tracked mister Fogg to this
• 3:30:20
  place, but as yet I have failed to receive the warrant of arrest for
• 3:30:24
  which I sent to London. You must help me to keep him here in
• 3:30:28
  Hong Kong. I but I I will share with you the two thousand pounds
• 3:30:33
  reward offered by the Bank of England, never replied Paspartout, who tried to
• 3:30:41
  rise but fell back, exhausted in mind and body. Mister Fix, he
• 3:30:46
  stammered, Even should what you say be true? If my master is really
• 3:30:52
  the robber you are seeking, for which I deny, I have been am
• 3:30:58
  in his service. I have seen his generosity and goodness, and I will
• 3:31:03
  never betray him. Not for all the gold in the world. I come
• 3:31:07
  from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread. You refuse,
• 3:31:13
  I refuse. Consider that I've said nothing, said Fix, and let us
• 3:31:18
  drink. Yes, let us drink. Passepartout felt himself yielding more and more
• 3:31:26
  to the effects of the liquor. Fix, seeing that he must at all
• 3:31:31
  hazards be separated from his master, wished to entirely overcome him. Some pipes
• 3:31:37
  full of opium lay upon the table. Fix slipped one into Passepartout's hand.
• 3:31:43
  He took it, put it between his lips, lit it drew several puffs,
• 3:31:48
  and his head, becoming heavy under the influence of the narcotic, fell
• 3:31:52
  upon the table. At last, said Fix, singing Passepartout unconscious. Fogg
• 3:32:00
  will not be involved of the carnatic's departure, and if he is, he
• 3:32:03
  will have to go without this cursed frenchman. And after paying his bill,
• 3:32:09
  Fix left the tavern. End of chapter chapter twenty, in which Fix comes
• 3:32:15
  face to face with Phileas Fogg. While these events were passing at the opium
• 3:32:22
  house, mister Fogg, unconscious of the danger he was in of losing the
• 3:32:26
  steamer, was quietly escorting Aouda about the streets of the English Quarter, making
• 3:32:33
  the necessary purchases for the long voyage before them. It was all very well
• 3:32:37
  for an Englishman like mister Fogg to make the tour of the world with a
• 3:32:41
  carpet bag. A lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.
• 3:32:48
  He acquitted his task with characteristic serenity, and invariably replied to the remonstrances
• 3:32:52
  of his fair companion, who was confused by his patience and generosity. It
• 3:32:58
  is an the interest of my journey, a part of my program. The
• 3:33:03
  purchases made, they returned to the hotel, where they dined at his sumptuously
• 3:33:09
  served table d'Hote, after which Aouda, shaking hands with her protector. After
• 3:33:13
  the English fashion, retired to her room for rest. Mister Fogg absorbed himself
• 3:33:20
  throughout the evening in the perusal of the Times and illustrated London news. Had
• 3:33:26
  he been capable of being astonished at anything, it would have been not to
• 3:33:30
  see his servant return at bedtime. But knowing that the steamer was not to
• 3:33:35
  leave for Yokohama until the next morning, he did not disturb himself about the
• 3:33:39
  matter. When passepartout did not appear the next morning to answer his master's bill.
• 3:33:46
  Mister Fogg, not betraying the least vexation, contented himself with taking his
• 3:33:50
  carpet bag, calling Aouda, and sending for a palanquin. It was then
• 3:33:56
  eight o'clock at half past nine, it being then high tide, the carnatic
• 3:34:01
  would leave the harbor. Mister Fogg and Aouda got into the palanquin, their
• 3:34:07
  luggage being brought after on a wheelbarrow, and half an hour later stepped upon
• 3:34:11
  the quay, whence they were to embark. Mister Fogg then learned that the
• 3:34:15
  carnatic had sailed the evening before. He had expected to find not only the
• 3:34:20
  steamer but his domestic, and was forced to give up both. But no
• 3:34:24
  sign of disappointment appeared on his face, and he merely remarked to Aouda,
• 3:34:31
  it is an accident, madam, nothing more. At this moment a man
• 3:34:35
  who had been observing him attentively approached. It was fix, who, bowing,
• 3:34:41
  addressed mister Fogg. Were you not like me, sir, a passenger
• 3:34:46
  by the rangoon which arrived yesterday? I was, sir, replied mister Fogg
• 3:34:52
  coldly, But I have not the honor pardon me. I thought I should
• 3:34:58
  find your servant here. Do you know where he is, Sir, asked
• 3:35:03
  Aouda anxiously, what responded Fix, feigning surprise. Is he not with you?
• 3:35:11
  No, said Aouda. He has not made his appearance since yesterday.
• 3:35:16
  Could he have gone on board the Carnatic without us? Without you, madam
• 3:35:20
  answered the detective. Excuse me, did you intend to sail in the Carnatic?
• 3:35:26
  Yes, Sir, so did I, madam, and I am excessively
• 3:35:31
  disappointed. The Carnatic, its repairs being completed, left Hong Kong twelve hours
• 3:35:37
  before the stated time, without any notice being given, and we must now
• 3:35:41
  wait a week for another steamer. As he said, a week, Fix
• 3:35:46
  felt his harp leap for joy. Fog detained at Hong Kong for a week.
• 3:35:52
  There would be time for the warrant to arrive, and Fortunate at last
• 3:35:56
  favored the representative of the law. His horror may be imagined when he heard
• 3:36:01
  mister Fogg say in his placid voice, but there are other vessels besides the
• 3:36:05
  Carnatic, it seems to me, in the harbor of Hong Kong, and
• 3:36:11
  offering his arm to aouda. He directed his steps toward the docks in search
• 3:36:15
  of some craft about to start. Fix stupefied followed. It seemed as if
• 3:36:22
  he were attached to mister Fogg by an invisible thread. Chance, however,
• 3:36:26
  appeared really to have abandoned the man it had hitherto served so well. For
• 3:36:31
  three hours, Phileas Fogg wandered about the docks, with the determination, if
• 3:36:35
  necessary, to charter a vessel to carry him to Yokohama. But he could
• 3:36:41
  only find vessels which were loading or unloading, and which could not therefore set
• 3:36:45
  sail. Fix began to hope again, but mister Fogg, far from being
• 3:36:50
  discouraged, was continuing his search, resolved not to stop if he had to
• 3:36:56
  resort to Macao. When he was accosted by a sailor on one of the
• 3:37:01
  whars, Is your honor looking for a boat? Have you a boat ready
• 3:37:07
  to sail? Yes, your honor, a pilot boat for number forty three,
• 3:37:11
  the best in the harbor. Does she go fast between eight and nine
• 3:37:18
  knots the hour? Will you look at her? Yes, your Honor will
• 3:37:22
  be satisfied with her. Is it a sea excursion? No? For a
• 3:37:28
  voyage? A voyage. Yes, will you agree to take me to Yokohama.
• 3:37:35
  The sailor leaned on the railing, opened his eyes wide, and said,
• 3:37:39
  is your honor joking? No? I have missed the Carnatic, and
• 3:37:45
  I must get to Yokohama by the fourteenth at the latest to take the boat
• 3:37:50
  for San Francisco. I am sorry, said the sailor, but it is
• 3:37:54
  impossible. I offer you one hundred pounds per day and an additional reward of
• 3:38:01
  two hundred pounds if I reached Yokohama in time. Are you in earnest?
• 3:38:09
  Very much so? The pilot walked away a little distance and gazed out to
• 3:38:13
  sea, evidently struggling between the anxiety to gain a large sum and the fear
• 3:38:20
  of venturing so far. Fix was in mortal suspense. Mister Fogg turned to
• 3:38:26
  Aouda and asked her you would not be afraid, would you? Madam?
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  Not with you, mister Fogg, was her answer. The pilot now returned,
• 3:38:37
  shuffling his hat in his hands. Well, pilot, said mister Fogg.
• 3:38:43
  Well, your honor, replied he. I could not risk myself,
• 3:38:48
  my men, or my little boat of scarcely twenty tons on so long a
• 3:38:52
  voyage at this time of year. Besides, we could not reach Yokohama in
• 3:38:56
  time, for it is sixteen hundred and sixty miles from Hong Kong, only
• 3:39:01
  sixteen hundred, said mister Fogg. It's the same thing. Fix breathed more
• 3:39:09
  freely, but added the pilot it might be arranged another way. Fix ceased
• 3:39:16
  to breathe at all, how, asked mister Fogg, By going to Nagasaki
• 3:39:24
  at the extreme south of Japan, or even to Shanghai, which is only
• 3:39:28
  eight hundred miles from here. In going to Shanghai, we should not be
• 3:39:31
  forced to sail wide of the Chinese coast, which would be a great advantage
• 3:39:37
  as the currents run northeast and would aid us. Pilot said mister Fogg,
• 3:39:43
  I must take the American steamer at Yokohama and not at Shanghai or Nagasaki.
• 3:39:50
  Why not, returned the pilot. The San Francisco Steamer does not start from
• 3:39:54
  Yokohama. It puts in at Yokohama and Nagasaki, but it starts from shang
• 3:40:01
  You are sure of that perfectly. And when does the boat leave Shanghai?
• 3:40:09
  On the eleventh, at seven in the evening, We have therefore four days
• 3:40:13
  before us, that is ninety six hours, and in that time, if
• 3:40:18
  we had good luck and the southwest wind and the sea was calm, we
• 3:40:22
  could make those eight hundred miles to Shanghai, and you could go in an
• 3:40:28
  hour, as soon as provisions could be got aboard and the sales put up.
• 3:40:33
  It is a bargain. Are you the master of the boat? Yes,
• 3:40:37
  John Bunsby, master of the tankadare would you like some earnest money if
• 3:40:46
  it would not put your honor out? Here are two hundred pounds on account,
• 3:40:50
  sir, added Phileas Fogg, turning to Fix if you would like to
• 3:40:54
  take advantage, Thanks, Sir. I was about to ask the very well,
• 3:41:01
  in half an hour we shall go on board, but poor Passepartout,
• 3:41:07
  urged Aouda, who was much disturbed by the servant's disappearance. I shall do
• 3:41:11
  all I can to find him, replied Phileas Fogg, while Fix, in
• 3:41:18
  a feverish nervous state, repaired to the pilot boat. The others directed their
• 3:41:22
  course to the police station at Hong Kong. Phileas Fogg there gave Passepartout's description
• 3:41:28
  and left a sum of money to be spent in the search for him,
• 3:41:31
  the same formalities having been gone through at the French consulate, and the Palanquin
• 3:41:35
  having stopped at the hotel for the luggage which had been sent back there,
• 3:41:41
  they returned to the wharf. It was now three o'clock and pilot boat number
• 3:41:46
  forty three, with its crew on board and its provisions stored away, was
• 3:41:50
  ready for departure. The Takadare was a neat little craft of twenty tons,
• 3:41:56
  as gracefully built as if she were a racing young Her shining copper sheathing,
• 3:42:01
  her galvanized iron work, her deck white as ivory, betrayed the pride taken
• 3:42:07
  by John Bunsby in making her presentable. Her two masts leaned a trifle backward,
• 3:42:13
  She carried brigantine foresail, storm jib and standing jib, and was well
• 3:42:18
  rigged for running before the wind, and she seemed capable of brisk speed,
• 3:42:22
  which indeed she had already proved by gaining several prizes in pilot boat races.
• 3:42:28
  The crew of the Takadare was composed of John Bunsby, the master, and
• 3:42:33
  four hardy mariners who were familiar with the Chinese seas. John bunsby himself,
• 3:42:39
  a man of forty five or thereabouts, vigorous, sun burnt, with a
• 3:42:43
  sprightly expression of the eye, an energetic and self reliant countenance would have inspired
• 3:42:48
  confidence in the most timid phileas Fogg and Aouda went on board, where they
• 3:42:54
  found Fix already installed. Below deck was a square cabin, of which the
• 3:42:58
  walls bulged out in the form of cots, above a circular divan. In
• 3:43:03
  the center was a table provided with a swinging lamp. The accommodation was confined.
• 3:43:09
  But neat I am sorry to have nothing better to offer you, said
• 3:43:15
  mister Fogg to Fix, who bowed without responding. The detective had a feeling
• 3:43:20
  akin to humiliation in profiting by the kindness of mister Fogg. It's certain thought
• 3:43:26
  he, though rascal as he is, he is a polite one. The
• 3:43:33
  sails and the English flag were hoisted at ten minutes past three. Mister Fogg
• 3:43:37
  and Aouda, who were seated on deck, cast a last glance at the
• 3:43:41
  quay in the hope of his spying passepartout. Fix was not without his fears
• 3:43:46
  lest chance should direct the steps of the unfortunate servant whom he had so badly
• 3:43:50
  treated in this direction, in which case an explanation the reverse of satisfactory to
• 3:43:56
  the detective must have ensued. But the Frenchman did not appear, and without
• 3:44:01
  doubt was still lying under the stupefying influence of the opium. John Bunsby master
• 3:44:09
  at length gave the order to start, and the Takadare, taking the wind
• 3:44:13
  under her brigantine foresail and standing jib bounded briskly forward over the waves. End
• 3:44:20
  of chapter chapter twenty one, in which the master of the Takadare runs great
• 3:44:28
  risk of losing a reward of two hundred pounds. This voyage of eight hundred
• 3:44:33
  miles was a perilous venture on a craft of twenty tons, and at that
• 3:44:37
  season of the year, the Chinese seas are usually boisterous, subject to terrible
• 3:44:43
  gales of wind, and especially during the equinoxes, and it was now early
• 3:44:48
  November. It would clearly have been to the master's advantage to carry his passengers
• 3:44:52
  to Yokohama, since he was paid a certain sum per day, but he
• 3:44:58
  would have been rash to attempt such a wivoyage, and it was imprudent even
• 3:45:01
  to attempt to reach Shanghai. But John Bunsby believed in the Takadare, which
• 3:45:07
  rode on the waves like a seagull, and perhaps he was not wrong.
• 3:45:13
  Late in the day they passed through the capricious channels of Hong Kong, and
• 3:45:16
  the Takadair, impelled by favorable winds, conducted herself admirably. I do not
• 3:45:24
  need pilot, said Phileas Fogg, when they got into the open sea,
• 3:45:28
  to advise you to use all possible speed. Trust me, your honor.
• 3:45:33
  We are carrying all the sail the wind will let us. The poles would
• 3:45:37
  add nothing and are only used when we are going into port. It's your
• 3:45:43
  trade, not mine, pilot, and I confide in you. Phileas Fogg,
• 3:45:48
  with body erect and legs wide apart, standing like a sailor, gazed
• 3:45:54
  without staggering at the swelling waters. The young woman, who was seated aft,
• 3:45:58
  was profoundly affected as she looked out upon the ocean darkening now with a
• 3:46:03
  twilight on which she had ventured in so frail. A vessel above her head
• 3:46:07
  rustled the white sails, which seemed like great white wings. The boat,
• 3:46:13
  carried forward by the wind, seemed to be flying in the air. Night
• 3:46:18
  came. The moon was entering her first quarter, and her insufficient light would
• 3:46:22
  soon die out in the mist. On the horizon, clouds were rising from
• 3:46:26
  the east and already overcast a part of the heavens. The pilot had hung
• 3:46:31
  out his lights, which was very necessary in these seas crowded with vessels bound
• 3:46:35
  landward, for collisions are not uncommon occurrences, and at the speed she was
• 3:46:41
  going, the least shock would shatter the gallant little craft. Fix seated in
• 3:46:46
  the bow, gave himself up to meditation. He kept apart from his fellow
• 3:46:52
  travelers, knowing mister Fogg's taciturn tastes. Besides, he did not quite like
• 3:46:56
  to talk to the man whose favors he had, except he was thinking too
• 3:47:01
  of the future. It seemed certain that Fogg would not stop at Yokohama,
• 3:47:07
  but would it once take the boat for San Francisco, and the vast extent
• 3:47:11
  of America would insure him impunity and safety. Fogg's plan appeared to him the
• 3:47:16
  simplest in the world. Instead of sailing directly from England to the United States
• 3:47:22
  like a common villain, he had traversed three quarters of the globe, so
• 3:47:26
  as to gain the American continent more surely, and there after throwing the police
• 3:47:31
  off his track, he would quietly enjoy himself with the fortunes stolen from the
• 3:47:37
  bank. But once in the United States, what should he Fix do?
• 3:47:43
  Should he abandon this man? No? A hundred times No. Until he
• 3:47:48
  had secured his extradition. He would not lose sight of him for an hour.
• 3:47:54
  It was his duty, and he would fulfill it to the end.
• 3:47:58
  At all events, there was one one thing to be thankful for. Passepartout
• 3:48:01
  was not with his master, and it was above all important after the Confidence's
• 3:48:07
  fix had imparted to him that the servants should never have speech with his master.
• 3:48:13
  Phileas Fogg was also thinking of Passepartout, who had so strangely disappeared.
• 3:48:18
  Looking at the matter from every point of view, it did not seem to
• 3:48:22
  him impossible that by some mistake the man might have embarked on the carnatic at
• 3:48:26
  the last moment. And this was also Ouda's opinion, who regretted very much
• 3:48:33
  the loss of the worthy fellow to whom she owed so much. They might
• 3:48:37
  then find him at Yokohama. For if the carnatic was carrying him thither,
• 3:48:41
  it would be easy to ascertain if he had been on board. A brisk
• 3:48:46
  breeze arose about ten o'clock, but though it might have been prudent to take
• 3:48:52
  in a reef, the pilot, after carefully examining the heavens, let the
• 3:48:56
  craft remain rigged as before. The Tankadere there bore sail admirably as she drew
• 3:49:01
  a great deal of water, and everything was prepared for high speed in case
• 3:49:05
  of a gale. Mister Fogg and Aouda descended into the cabin at midnight,
• 3:49:11
  having been already preceded by Fix, who had lain down on one of the
• 3:49:16
  cots. The pilot and crew remained on deck all night. At sunrise the
• 3:49:22
  next day, which was eighth November, the boat had made more than one
• 3:49:26
  hundred miles. The log indicated a mean speed of between eight and nine miles.
• 3:49:33
  The Takadare still carried all sail and was accomplishing her greatest capacity of speed.
• 3:49:39
  If the wind held as it was, the chances would be in her
• 3:49:41
  favor. During the day, she kept along the coast where the currents were
• 3:49:46
  favorable. The coast irregular in profile, invisible, sometimes across the clearings was
• 3:49:52
  at most five miles distant. The sea was less boisterous since the wind came
• 3:49:58
  off land, a fortunate circumstance for the boat, which would suffer, owing
• 3:50:03
  to its small tonnage, by a heavy surge on the sea. The breeze
• 3:50:09
  subsided a little towards noon and set in from the southwest. The pilot put
• 3:50:15
  up his poles, but took them down again within two hours as the wind
• 3:50:18
  freshened up anew Mister Fogg and Aouda, happily unaffected by the roughness of the
• 3:50:24
  sea, ate with a good appetite, fixed being invited to share their repast,
• 3:50:30
  which he accepted with secret chagrin. To travel at this man's expense and
• 3:50:35
  live upon his provisions was not palatable to him. Still, he was obliged
• 3:50:41
  to eat, and so he ate. When the meal was over, he
• 3:50:45
  took mister Fogg apart and said, sir, this sir scorched his lips,
• 3:50:50
  and he had to control himself to avoid collaring this gentleman. Sir, you
• 3:50:56
  have been very kind to give me a passage on this boat, but though
• 3:51:01
  my means will not admit of my expecting them as freely as you, I
• 3:51:05
  must ask to pay my share. Let us not speak of that, sir,
• 3:51:09
  replied mister Fogg. But if I insist, no, Sir, repeated
• 3:51:16
  mister Fogg, in a tone which did not admit of a reply. This
• 3:51:20
  enters into my general expenses fix as he bowed, had a stifled feeling,
• 3:51:26
  and going forward where he ensconced himself, did not open his mouth for the
• 3:51:31
  rest of the day. Meanwhile, they were progressing famously, and John Bunsby
• 3:51:37
  was in high hope. He several times assured mister Fogg that they would reach
• 3:51:41
  Shanghai in time, to which that gentleman responded that he counted upon it.
• 3:51:46
  The crew set to work in good earnest, inspired by the reward to be
• 3:51:50
  gained. There was not a sheet which was not tightened, not a sail
• 3:51:54
  which was not vigorously hoisted, Not a lurch could be charged to the man
• 3:52:00
  the helm. They worked as desperately as if they were contesting in a royal
• 3:52:05
  yacht regatta. By evening, the log showed that two hundred and twenty miles
• 3:52:09
  had been accomplished from Hong Kong, and mister Fogg might hope that he would
• 3:52:13
  be able to reach Yokohama without recording any delay in his journal, in which
• 3:52:18
  case the many misadventures which had overtaken him since he left London would not seriously
• 3:52:24
  affect his journey. The Takadare entered the Straits of folk Kin, which separate
• 3:52:31
  the island of Formosa from the Chinese coast, in the small hours of the
• 3:52:35
  night, and crossed the Tropic of Cancer. The sea was very rough in
• 3:52:39
  the straits, full of eddies formed by the counter currents, and the chopping
• 3:52:43
  waves broke her course whilst it became very difficult to stand on deck. At
• 3:52:50
  daybreak, the wind began to blow hard again, and the heavens seemed to
• 3:52:54
  predict a gale. The barometer announced a speedy change, the mercury rise and
• 3:53:00
  falling capriciously. The sea, also in the southeast, raised long surges which
• 3:53:05
  indicated a tempest. The sun had set the evening before in a red mist.
• 3:53:11
  In the midst of the phosphorescent scintillations of the ocean, John Bunsby long
• 3:53:16
  examined the threatening aspect of the heavens, muttering indistinctly between his teeth. At
• 3:53:22
  last, he said, in a low voice to mister Fogg, Shall I
• 3:53:26
  speak out to your honor, of course. Well, we are going to
• 3:53:33
  have a squall. Is the wind north or south? Asked mister Fogg quietly
• 3:53:41
  South. Look a typhoon is coming up. Glad it's a typhoon from the
• 3:53:46
  south, for it will carry us forward. Oh, if you take it
• 3:53:52
  that way, said John Bunsby, I've nothing more to say. John Bunsby's
• 3:53:58
  suspicions were confirmed. At at less advanced season of the year, the typhoon,
• 3:54:03
  according to a famous meteorologist, would have passed away like a luminous cascade
• 3:54:07
  of electric flame. But in the winter equinox it was to be feared that
• 3:54:11
  it would burst upon them with great violence. The pilot took his precautions in
• 3:54:16
  advance. He reefed all sail, The pole masts were dispensed with, all
• 3:54:22
  hands went forward to the bows. A single triangular sail of strong canvas was
• 3:54:28
  hoisted as a storm jib, so as to hold the wind from behind.
• 3:54:33
  Then they waited. John Bunsby had requested his passengers to go below. But
• 3:54:39
  this imprisonment in so narrow a space, with little air, and the boat
• 3:54:43
  bouncing in the gale, was far from pleasant. Neither mister Fogg fixed nor
• 3:54:50
  auDA consented to leave the deck. The storm of rain and wind descended upon
• 3:54:54
  them towards eight o'clock. With but its bit of sail, the tankade was
• 3:55:00
  lifted like a feather by a wind, an idea of whose violence can scarcely
• 3:55:05
  be given. To compare her speed to four times that of a locomotive going
• 3:55:09
  on full steam would be below the truth. The boats scudded thus northward during
• 3:55:15
  the whole day, borne on by monstrous waves, preserving always fortunately a speed
• 3:55:20
  equal to theirs twenty times. She seemed almost to be submerged by those mountains
• 3:55:26
  of water which rose behind her, but the adroit management of the pilot saved
• 3:55:31
  her. The passengers were often bathed in spray, but they submitted to it
• 3:55:37
  philosophically. Fix cursed it, no doubt. But Aouda, with her eyes
• 3:55:41
  fastened upon her protector, whose coolness amazed her, showed herself worthy of him,
• 3:55:48
  and bravely weathered the storm. As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just
• 3:55:54
  as if the typhoon were a part of his program. Up to this time,
• 3:55:58
  the Takada had always held her course to the north, but towards evening,
• 3:56:03
  the wind veering three quarters bore down from the northwest. The boat,
• 3:56:09
  now lying in the trough of the waves, shook and rolled terribly. The
• 3:56:13
  sea struck her with fearful violence. At night, the tempest increased in violence.
• 3:56:18
  John Bunsby saw the approach of darkness and the rising of the storm with
• 3:56:22
  dark misgivings. He thought, awhile, and then asked his crew if it
• 3:56:28
  was not time to slacken speed. After a consultation, he approached mister Fogg
• 3:56:33
  and said, I think your honor that we should do well to make for
• 3:56:37
  one of the ports on the coast. I think so too, ah,
• 3:56:43
  said the pilot. But which one I know of? But one, returned
• 3:56:50
  mister Fogg, tranquility, and that is Shanghai. The pilot at first did
• 3:56:58
  not seemed to comprehend. He could scarcely realize so much determination and tenacity.
• 3:57:05
  Then he cried, well, yes, your honor is right to Shanghai.
• 3:57:13
  So the Takada kept steadily on her northward track. The night was really terrible.
• 3:57:18
  It would be a miracle if the craft did not found her twice.
• 3:57:22
  It could have been all over with her if the crew had not been constantly
• 3:57:26
  on the watch. Uda was exhausted, but did not utter a complaint.
• 3:57:31
  More than once mister Fogg rushed to protect her from the violence of the waves.
• 3:57:37
  Day reappeared, the tempest still raged with undiminished fury, but the wind
• 3:57:43
  now returned to the southeast. It was a favorable change, and the takader
• 3:57:48
  again bounded forward on this mountainous sea, though the waves crossed each other and
• 3:57:52
  imparted shocks and counter shocks which would have crushed a craft less solidly built.
• 3:57:58
  From time to time, the coast was visible through the broken mist, but
• 3:58:01
  no vessel was in sight. The Takadare was alone upon the sea. There
• 3:58:07
  were some signs of a calm at noon, and these became more distinct as
• 3:58:11
  the sun descended toward the horizon. The tempest had been as brief as terrific.
• 3:58:18
  The passengers, thoroughly exhausted, could now eat a little and take some
• 3:58:22
  repose. The night was comparatively quiet. Some of the sails were again hoisted,
• 3:58:28
  and the speed of the boat was very good. The next morning,
• 3:58:33
  at dawn they espied the coast, and John Bunsby was able to assert that
• 3:58:37
  they were not one hundred miles from Shanghai, a hundred miles and only one
• 3:58:41
  day to traverse them. That very evening, mister Fogg was due at Shanghai
• 3:58:46
  if he did not wish to miss the steamer to Yokohama. Had there been
• 3:58:50
  no storm during which several hours were lost, they would be at this moment
• 3:58:56
  within thirty miles of their destination. The wind grew decidedly calmer, and happily
• 3:59:01
  the sea fell with it. All sails were now hoisted, and at noon
• 3:59:07
  the Tankadere was within forty five miles of Shanghai. There remained yet six hours
• 3:59:11
  in which to accomplish that distance. All on board feared that it could not
• 3:59:16
  be done, and every one, Phileas Fogg, no doubt excepted, felt
• 3:59:22
  his heart beat with impatience. The boat must keep up an average of nine
• 3:59:26
  miles an hour, and the wind was becoming calmer every moment. It was
• 3:59:31
  a capricious breeze coming from the coast, and after it passed the sea became
• 3:59:35
  smooth still. The Tankadere was so light, and her fine sails caught the
• 3:59:41
  fickle zephyrs so well, that, with the aid of the currents, John
• 3:59:45
  Bunsby found himself at six o'clock not more than ten miles from the mouth of
• 3:59:48
  Shanghai River. Shanghai itself is situated at least twelve miles up the stream.
• 3:59:56
  At seven they were still three miles from Shanghai. The p lle swore an
• 4:00:00
  angry oath the reward of two hundred pounds was evidently on the point of escaping
• 4:00:05
  him. He looked at mister Fogg. Mister Fogg was perfectly tranquil, and
• 4:00:11
  yet his whole fortune was at this moment at stake. At this moment,
• 4:00:16
  also a long black funnel, crowned with wreaths of smoke appeared on the edge
• 4:00:20
  of the waters. It was the American steamer leaving for Yokohama at the appointed
• 4:00:26
  time. Confound her, cried John Bunsby, pushing back the rudder with a
• 4:00:31
  desperate jerk signal. Her said Phileas Fogg quietly. A small brass cannon stood
• 4:00:39
  on the forward deck of the tankadere for making signals in the fogs. It
• 4:00:45
  was loaded to the muzzle, But just as the pilot was about to apply
• 4:00:48
  a red hot coal to the touch hole, mister Fogg said, hoist your
• 4:00:52
  flag. The flag was run up at half mast, and this being the
• 4:00:58
  signal of distress, it was hoped that the American steamer, perceiving it would
• 4:01:03
  change her course a little so as to succor the pilot boat fire, said
• 4:01:07
  mister Fogg, and the booming of the little cannon resounded in the air.
• 4:01:13
  End of chapter Chapter twenty two, in which passepart IIU finds out that even
• 4:01:20
  at the antipodes, it is convenient to have some money in one's pocket.
• 4:01:28
  The Carnatic, setting sail from Hong Kong at half past six on the seventh
• 4:01:33
  of November, directed her course at full steam towards Japan. She carried a
• 4:01:37
  large cargo in a well filled cabin of passengers. Two staterooms in the rear
• 4:01:43
  were, however, unoccupied, those which had been engaged by Phileas Fogg.
• 4:01:48
  The next day, a passenger with a half stupefied eye, staggering gait,
• 4:01:54
  and disordered hair was seen to emerge from the second cabin and to totter to
• 4:01:58
  a deck. It was past part two, and what had happened to him
• 4:02:05
  was as follows. Shortly after Fix left the opium den, two waiters had
• 4:02:09
  lifted the unconscious past Partu and had carried him to the bed reserved for the
• 4:02:15
  smokers. Three hours later, pursued even in his dreams by a fixed idea.
• 4:02:20
  The poor fellow awoke and struggled against the stupefying influence of the narcotic.
• 4:02:26
  The thought of a duty unfulfilled shook off his torpor, and he hurried from
• 4:02:31
  the abode of drunkenness, staggering and holding himself up by keeping against the walls,
• 4:02:37
  falling down and creeping up again, and irresistibly, impelled by a kind
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  of instinct, he kept crying out the Carnatic, the Carnatic. The steamer
• 4:02:50
  lay puffing alongside the quay. On the point of starting. Passepartout had but
• 4:02:56
  a few steps to go, and, rushing upon the plank, he crossed
• 4:03:00
  it and fell unconscious on the deck. Just as the Carnatic was moving off.
• 4:03:05
  Several sailors, who were evidently accustomed to this sort of scene, carried
• 4:03:09
  the poor Frenchman down into the second cabin, and Passepartout did not wake until
• 4:03:15
  they were one hundred and fifty miles away from China. Thus he found himself
• 4:03:20
  the next morning on the deck of the Carnatic, and eagerly inhaling the exhilarating
• 4:03:24
  sea breeze. The pure air sobered him he began to collect his sense,
• 4:03:31
  which he found a difficult task. But at last he recalled the events of
• 4:03:35
  the evening before Fix's revelation and the Opium house. It is evident, said
• 4:03:41
  he to himself, that I have been abominably drunk. What will mister Fogg
• 4:03:46
  say? At least I have not missed the steamer, which is the most
• 4:03:50
  important thing. Then, as Fix occurred to him, as for that rascal,
• 4:03:56
  I hope we are well rid of him, and that he not dared
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  as he proposed to follow us on board the Carnatic A detective on the track
• 4:04:05
  of mister Fogg accused of robbing the Bank of England Pshaw. Mister Fogg is
• 4:04:13
  no more a robber than I am a murderer? Should he divulge Fix's real
• 4:04:18
  errand to his master? Would it do to tell the part the detective was
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  playing? Would it not be better to wait until mister Fogg reached London again
• 4:04:26
  and then impart to him that an agent of the Metropolitan Police had been following
• 4:04:31
  him round the world, and have a good laugh over it. No doubt,
• 4:04:37
  at least it was worth considering. The first thing to do was to
• 4:04:41
  find mister Fogg and apologize for his singular behavior. Passepartout got up and proceeded
• 4:04:48
  as well as he could with the rolling of the steamer to the after deck.
• 4:04:52
  He saw no one who resembled either his master or Aouda. Good muttered,
• 4:04:58
  he Aouda has not got up yet, and mister Fogg has probably found
• 4:05:03
  some partners. At whist he descended to the saloon. Mister Fogg was not
• 4:05:09
  there. Passepartout had, only, however, to ask the purser the number
• 4:05:13
  of his master's stateroom. The purser replied that he did not know any passenger
• 4:05:18
  by the name of Fogg. I beg your pardon, said Passepartout, persistently.
• 4:05:24
  He is a tall gentleman, quiet, not very talkative, and has
• 4:05:28
  with him a young lady. There is no young lady on board, interrupted
• 4:05:33
  the purser. Here is a list of the passengers you may see for yourself.
• 4:05:39
  Passepartout scanned the list, but his master's name was not upon it all.
• 4:05:43
  At once an idea struck him. Ah am I on the Carnatic Yes
• 4:05:52
  on the way to Yokohama. Certainly, Passepartout had for an instant feared that
• 4:05:58
  he was on the wrong boat. But though he was really on the Carnatic,
• 4:06:03
  his master was not there. He fell thunderstruck on a seat. He
• 4:06:07
  saw it all now. He remembered that the time of sailing had been changed,
• 4:06:11
  that he should have informed his master of that fact, and that he
• 4:06:16
  had not done so. It was his fault then, that mister Fogg and
• 4:06:20
  Aouda had missed the steamer. Yes, but it was still more the fault
• 4:06:24
  of the traitor, who, in order to separate him from his master and
• 4:06:28
  attained the latter at Hong Kong, had inveigled him into getting drunk. He
• 4:06:35
  now saw the detective's trick, and at this moment mister Fogg was certainly ruined.
• 4:06:39
  His bet was lost, and he himself perhaps arrested and imprisoned. At
• 4:06:46
  this thought, Passepartout tore his hair. Ah, if fix ever came within
• 4:06:50
  his reach, what a settling of accounts there would be. After his first
• 4:06:56
  depression, Passepartout became calmer and began to study his situation. It was certainly
• 4:07:03
  not an enviable one. He found himself on the way to Japan, and
• 4:07:07
  what should he do when he got there? His pocket was empty. He
• 4:07:11
  had not a solitary shilling, not so much as a penny. His passage
• 4:07:16
  had fortunately been paid for in advance, and he had five or six days
• 4:07:20
  in which to decide upon his future course. He fell to at meals with
• 4:07:26
  an appetite and ate for mister fogg Aouda and himself. He helped himself as
• 4:07:31
  generously as if Japan were a desert where nothing to eat was to be looked
• 4:07:35
  for. At dawn on the thirteenth, the Carnatic entered the port of Yokohama.
• 4:07:43
  This is an important port of call in the Pacific, where all the
• 4:07:46
  mail steamers and those carrying passengers between North America, China, Japan, and
• 4:07:52
  the Oriental Islands put in. It is situated in the Bay of Yedo,
• 4:07:56
  and at but a short distance from that second capital of the Japanese Empire and
• 4:08:01
  the residents of the Tycoon, the civil Emperor before the Mikado, the Spiritual
• 4:08:07
  Emperor, absorbed his office in his own. The Carnatic, anchored at the
• 4:08:11
  quay near the custom house, in the midst of a crowd of ships bearing
• 4:08:15
  the flags of all nations, passepartout went timidly ashore on this so curious territory
• 4:08:22
  of the sons of the Sun. He had nothing better to do than taking
• 4:08:26
  chance for his guide. To wander aimlessly through the streets of Yokohama. He
• 4:08:33
  found himself at first in a thoroughly European quarter, the houses having low fronts
• 4:08:37
  and being adorned with verandas beneath which he caught glimpses of neat peristyles. This
• 4:08:43
  quarter occupied, with its streets, squares, docks, and warehouses all the
• 4:08:50
  space between the promontory of the treaty and the river. Here, as at
• 4:08:54
  Hong Kong and Calcutta, were mixed crowds of all races, Americans in English,
• 4:09:01
  Chinamen and Dutchmen, mostly merchants ready to buy or sell anything. The
• 4:09:05
  Frenchman felt himself as much alone among them as if he had dropped down in
• 4:09:11
  the midst of hottentots. He had at least one resource to call on the
• 4:09:16
  French and English consuls at Yokohama for assistance, but he shrank from telling the
• 4:09:22
  story of his adventures, intimately connected as it was with that of his master,
• 4:09:26
  and before doing so he determined to exhaust all other means of aid.
• 4:09:33
  As chance did not favor him in the European quarter, he penetrated that inhabited
• 4:09:37
  by the native Japanese determined if necessary, to push on to Yeddo. The
• 4:09:43
  Japanese quarter of Yokohama is called Benten, after the goddess of the sea,
• 4:09:48
  who was worshiped on the islands. Roundabout there passepartout beheld beautiful fir and cedar
• 4:09:54
  groves, Sacred gates of a singular architecture, bridges half hid in the midst
• 4:10:00
  of bamboos and reeds, temples shaded by immense cedar trees. Holy retreats were
• 4:10:07
  sheltered Buddhist priests and sectories of Confucius, and interminable streets where a perfect harvest
• 4:10:13
  of rose, tinted and red cheeked children who looked as if they had been
• 4:10:16
  cut out of Japanese screens, and who were playing in the midst of short
• 4:10:20
  legged poodles and yellowish cats might have been gathered. The streets were crowded with
• 4:10:26
  people. Priests were passing in processions, beating their dreary tambourines, Police and
• 4:10:33
  custom house officers with pointed hats encrusted with locke and carrying two sabers hung to
• 4:10:39
  their waists. Soldiers clad in blue cotton with white stripes and bearing guns,
• 4:10:46
  the Mikado's guards enveloped in silken doubles, hauberks and coats of mail, and
• 4:10:52
  numbers of military folk of all ranks, for the military profession is as much
• 4:10:58
  respected in Japan as it is despised in China. Went hither and thither in
• 4:11:03
  groups and pairs. Passepartouts saw too begging friars, long robed pilgrims, and
• 4:11:09
  simple civilians with their warped and jet black hair, big head, long busts,
• 4:11:16
  slender legs, short stature, and complexions varying from copper color to a
• 4:11:20
  dead white, but never yellow. Like the Chinese, from whom the Japanese
• 4:11:24
  widely differ, he did not fail to observe the curious equipages, carriages and
• 4:11:31
  palanquins, barrows supplied with sails, and litters made of bamboo, nor the
• 4:11:37
  women, whom he thought not especially handsome, who took little steps with their
• 4:11:43
  little feet, whereon they wore canvas shoes, straw sandals, and clogs of
• 4:11:48
  worked wood, and who displayed tight looking eyes, flat chests, teeth fashionably
• 4:11:54
  blackened, and gowns crossed with silken scarves tied in ormous knot behind an ornament
• 4:12:01
  which the modern Parisian ladies seemed to have borrowed from the dames of Japan.
• 4:12:07
  Passepartout wandered for several hours in the midst of this motley crowd, looking in
• 4:12:11
  at the windows of the rich and curious shops, the jewelry establishments glittering with
• 4:12:16
  quaint Japanese ornaments, the restaurants decked with streamers and banners, the tea houses
• 4:12:22
  where the odorous beverage was being drunk with saki, a liquor concocted from the
• 4:12:28
  fermentation of rice, and the comfortable smoking houses where they were puffing not opium,
• 4:12:33
  which is almost unknown in Japan, but a very fine, stringy tobacco.
• 4:12:39
  He went on till he found himself in the fields, in the midst
• 4:12:43
  of vast rice plantations. There he saw dazzling camellias expanding themselves with flowers,
• 4:12:50
  which were giving forth their less colors and perfumes, not on bushes, but
• 4:12:54
  on trees and within bamboo enclosures, cherry, plum and apple trees, which
• 4:13:01
  the Japanese cultivate rather for their blossoms than their fruit, and which queerly fashioned
• 4:13:07
  grinning scarecrows protected from the sparrows, pigeons, ravens, and other voracious birds.
• 4:13:13
  On the branches of the cedars were perched large eagles. Amid the foliage
• 4:13:18
  of the weeping willows were herons solemnly standing on one leg, and on every
• 4:13:22
  hand were crows, ducks, hawks, wild birds, and a multitude of
• 4:13:28
  cranes, which the Japanese consider sacred and which, to their minds symbolize long
• 4:13:33
  life and prosperity. As he was strolling along Passepartout espied some violets among the
• 4:13:41
  shrubs. Good said he I'll have some supper, but on smelling them he
• 4:13:46
  found that they were odorless. No chance there, thought he. The worthy
• 4:13:54
  fellow had certainly taken good care to eat as hearty a breakfast as possible before
• 4:13:58
  leaving the Carnatic, But as he had been walking about all day, the
• 4:14:03
  demands of hunger were becoming importunate. He observed that the butcher's stalls contained neither
• 4:14:09
  mutton, goat nor pork, And knowing also that it is a sacrilege to
• 4:14:13
  kill cattle which are preserved solely for farming, he made up his mind that
• 4:14:18
  meat was far from plentiful in Yokohama. Nor was he mistaken, and in
• 4:14:24
  default of butcher's meat, he could have wished for a quarter of wild boar
• 4:14:28
  or deer, a partridge or some quails, some game or fish, which
• 4:14:33
  with rice, the Japanese eat almost exclusively. But he found it necessary to
• 4:14:39
  keep up a stout heart and to postpone the meal he craved till the following
• 4:14:43
  morning. Night came and Passepartout re entered the native quarter, where he wandered
• 4:14:50
  through the streets lit by very colored lanterns, looking on at the dancers who
• 4:14:56
  were executing skillful steps and boundings, and the astrona who stood in the open
• 4:15:01
  air with their telescopes. Then he came to the harbor, which was lit
• 4:15:05
  up by the resin torches of the fishermen who were fishing from their boats.
• 4:15:09
  The streets at last became quiet, and the patrol, the officers of which,
• 4:15:16
  in their splendid costumes and surrounded by their suites, Passepartout thought, seemed
• 4:15:22
  like ambassadors, succeeded the bustling crowd. Each time a company passed Passpartu chuckled
• 4:15:28
  and said to himself good. Another Japanese embassy departing for Europe end of chapter
• 4:15:37
  Chapter twenty three, in which Passpartout's nose becomes outrageously long. The next morning,
• 4:15:46
  poor jaded famish Passpartus said to himself that he must get something to eat
• 4:15:52
  at all hazards, and the sinner he did so, the better. He
• 4:15:56
  might indeed sell his watch, but he would have starved first. Now or
• 4:16:00
  never, he must use the strong, if not melodious voice, which nature
• 4:16:04
  had bestowed upon him. He knew several French and English songs, and resolved
• 4:16:10
  to try them upon the Japanese, who must be lovers of music, since
• 4:16:14
  they were forever pounding on their symbols tam tams and tambourines, and could not
• 4:16:19
  but appreciate European talent. It was perhaps rather early in the morning to get
• 4:16:26
  up a concert, and the audience, prematurely aroused from their slumbers, might
• 4:16:30
  not possibly pay their entertainer with coin bearing the mikado's features. Passepartout therefore decided
• 4:16:37
  to wait several hours, and as he was sauntering along, it occurred to
• 4:16:41
  him that he would seem rather too well dressed for a wandering artist. The
• 4:16:45
  idea struck him to change his garments for clothes more in harmony with his project,
• 4:16:51
  by which he might also get little money to satisfy the immediate cravings of
• 4:16:55
  hunger. The resolution taken, it remained to carry it out. It was
• 4:17:00
  only after a long search that Passepartou discovered a native dealer in old clothes,
• 4:17:06
  to whom he applied for an exchange. The man liked the European costume an
• 4:17:11
  ere long past Partwu issued from his shop, accoutered in an old Japanese coat
• 4:17:17
  and a sort of one sided turban, faded with long use. A few
• 4:17:22
  small pieces of silver moreover jingled in his pocket, good thought he, I
• 4:17:27
  will imagine I am at the carnival. His first care after being thus Japanese
• 4:17:34
  was to utter a tea house of modest appearance, and upon half a bird
• 4:17:38
  and a little rice, to breakfast, like a man for whom dinner was
• 4:17:42
  its yet a problem to be solved, now thought he, when he had
• 4:17:48
  eaten heartily. I mustn't lose my head. I can't sell this costume again
• 4:17:53
  for one still more Japanese. I must consider how to leave this country of
• 4:17:59
  the sun, of which I shall not retain the most delightful of memories.
• 4:18:03
  As quickly as possible, it occurred to him to visit the steamers which were
• 4:18:07
  about to leave for America. He would offer himself as a cook or servant
• 4:18:12
  in payment of his passage and meals. Once at San Francisco he would find
• 4:18:18
  some means of going on. The difficulty was how to traverse the four thousand,
• 4:18:23
  seven hundred miles of the Pacific which lay between Japan and the New World.
• 4:18:30
  Passepartout was not the man to let an idea go begging, and directed
• 4:18:33
  his steps toward the docks. But as he approached them, his project,
• 4:18:38
  which at first had seemed so simple, began to grow more and more formidable
• 4:18:42
  to his mind. What need would they have of a cook or servant on
• 4:18:48
  an American steamer? And what confidence would they put in him? Dressed as
• 4:18:52
  he was? What references could he give? As he was reflecting in this
• 4:18:57
  wise, his eyes fell upon an immense placard which a sort of clown was
• 4:19:03
  carrying through the streets. This placard, which was in English read as follows
• 4:19:10
  acrobatic Japanese Troop Honorable William battlecr proprietor last representations prior to their departure to the
• 4:19:18
  United States of the Long noses, long noses, under the direct patronage of
• 4:19:23
  the God Tingou Great Attraction the United States, said Passepartout, That's just what
• 4:19:32
  I want. He followed the clown and soon found himself once more in the
• 4:19:37
  Japanese quarter. A quarter of an hour later, he stopped before a large
• 4:19:41
  cabin adorned with several clusters of streamers, the exterior walls of which were designed
• 4:19:47
  to represent, in violent colors and without perspective, a company of jugglers.
• 4:19:53
  This was the Honorable William Battlecar's establishment that gentleman was a sort of bar the
• 4:20:00
  director of a troop of mountebanks, jugglers, clowns, acrobats, equilibrists,
• 4:20:06
  and gymnasts, who, according to the placard, was giving his last performances
• 4:20:11
  before leaving the Empire of the Sun for the States of the Union. Passepartout
• 4:20:17
  entered and asked for mister Battlecar, who straightway appeared in person. What do
• 4:20:22
  you want, said he to Passepartout, whom he at first took for a
• 4:20:26
  native. Would you lack a servant, sir, asked Passepartout. A servant
• 4:20:33
  cried mister Battlecar, caressing the thick gray beard which hung from his chin.
• 4:20:40
  I already have two who are obedient and faithful, have never left me,
• 4:20:45
  and serve me for their nourishment. And here they are, added he holding
• 4:20:48
  out his two robust arms furrowed with veins as large as the strings of a
• 4:20:53
  base vial. So I can be of no use to you. None is
• 4:21:00
  the devil. I should so like to cross the Pacific with you, Ah,
• 4:21:07
  said the honorable mister battlecr You are no more Japanese than I am.
• 4:21:11
  A monkey? Who are you dressed up in that way? A man dresses
• 4:21:17
  as he can. That's true. You are a Frenchman, aren't you?
• 4:21:22
  Yes, at Parisian of Paris. Then you ought to know how to make
• 4:21:27
  grimaces? Why, replied Paspertout, a little vexed that his nationality should cause
• 4:21:36
  this question. We Frenchmen know how to make grimaces, it is true,
• 4:21:40
  but not any better than the Americans do. True. Well, if I
• 4:21:45
  can't take you as a servant, I can as a clown, you see,
• 4:21:49
  my friend. In France they exhibit foreign clowns, and in foreign parts
• 4:21:53
  French clowns. Ah. You are pretty strong, eh, especially after a
• 4:22:00
  good meal, and you can sing, yes, returned Passepartout, who had
• 4:22:07
  formerly been wont to sing in the streets. But can you sing standing on
• 4:22:12
  your head with a top spinning on your left foot and a saber balanced on
• 4:22:17
  your right Huh, I think so, replied Passepartout, recalling the exercises of
• 4:22:23
  his younger days. Well that's enough, said the Honorable William Battlecr. The
• 4:22:32
  engagement was concluded there and then Passepartout had at last found something to do.
• 4:22:37
  He was engaged to act in the celebrated Japanese troop. It was not a
• 4:22:41
  very dignified position, but within a week he would be on his way to
• 4:22:45
  San Francisco. The performance, so noisily announced by the Honorable mister Battlecr,
• 4:22:52
  was to commence at three o'clock, and soon the deafening instruments of a Japanese
• 4:22:56
  orchestra resounded at the door Passepartout, though he had not been able to study
• 4:23:02
  or rehearse, a part, was designated to lend the aid of his sturdy
• 4:23:06
  shoulders in the great exhibition of the human pyramid, executed by the long noses
• 4:23:11
  of the God Tingu. This great attraction was to close the performance. Before
• 4:23:19
  three o'clock. The large shed was invaded by the spectators comprising Europeans and natives,
• 4:23:26
  Chinese and Japanese men, women and children, who precipitated themselves upon the
• 4:23:32
  narrow benches and into the boxes opposite the stage. The musicians took up of
• 4:23:37
  tam tams, flutes, bones, tambourines, and immense drums. The performance
• 4:23:44
  was much like all acrobatic displays, but it must be confessed that the Japanese
• 4:23:48
  are the first equilibrists in the world. One with a fan and some bits
• 4:23:52
  of paper performed the graceful trick of the butterflies and the flowers. Another traced
• 4:23:59
  in the air, with the odorous smoke of his pipe, a series of
• 4:24:03
  blue words, which composed a compliment to the audience, while a third juggled
• 4:24:07
  with some lighted candles, which he extinguished successively as they passed his lips and
• 4:24:14
  re lit again without interrupting for an instant his juggling. Another reproduced the most
• 4:24:19
  singular combinations with a spinning top in his hands. The revolving tops seemed to
• 4:24:25
  be animated with the life of their own. In their interminable whirling, they
• 4:24:30
  ran over pipe stems, the edges of sabers, wires, and even hairs
• 4:24:33
  stretched across the stage. They turned around on the edges of large glasses,
• 4:24:38
  crossed bamboo ladders, dispersed into all the corners, and produced strange musical effects
• 4:24:45
  by the combination of their various pitches of tone. The jugglers tossed them in
• 4:24:49
  the air, threw them like shuttlecocks with wooden battle doors, and yet they
• 4:24:55
  kept on spinning. They put them into their pockets and took them out,
• 4:25:00
  still whirling. As before. It is useless to describe the astonishing performance of
• 4:25:04
  the acrobats and gymnasts. The turning on ladders, poles, balls, barrels,
• 4:25:11
  et cetera. Was executed with wonderful precision. But the principal attraction was
• 4:25:17
  the exhibition of the long noses, a show to which Europe is as yet
• 4:25:21
  a stranger. The long noses form a peculiar company under the direct patronage of
• 4:25:26
  the god Tingu. Attired after the fashion of the Middle Ages, they bore
• 4:25:32
  upon their shoulders a splendid pair of wings. But what especially distinguished them was
• 4:25:37
  the long noses which were fastened to their faces, and the uses which they
• 4:25:41
  made of them. These noses were made of bamboo and were five, six
• 4:25:47
  and even ten feet long. Some straight others curved, some ribboned, and
• 4:25:52
  some having imitation warts upon them. It was upon these appendages fixed tightly on
• 4:25:59
  their real noses that they performed their gymnastic exercises. A dozen of these sectories
• 4:26:04
  of tingu lay flat upon their backs, while others, dressed to represent lightning
• 4:26:11
  rods, came and frolicked on their noses, jumping from one to another and
• 4:26:15
  performing the most skillful leapings and somersaults. As the last scene, a human
• 4:26:22
  pyramid had been announced, in which fifty long noses were to represent the car
• 4:26:26
  of Juggernaut. But instead of forming a pyramid by mounting each other's shoulders,
• 4:26:33
  the artists were to group themselves on top of the noses. It happened that
• 4:26:37
  the performer, who had hitherto formed the base of the car, had quitted
• 4:26:41
  the troop, and as to fill this part, only strength and adroitness were
• 4:26:45
  necessary, Passepartout had been chosen to take his place. The poor fellow really
• 4:26:52
  felt sad when melancholy reminiscence of his youth, he donned his costume adorned with
• 4:26:57
  very colored wings, and fastened to his natural feature a false nose six feet
• 4:27:03
  long. But he cheered up when he thought that this nose was winning him
• 4:27:07
  something to eat. He went upon the stage and took his place beside the
• 4:27:12
  rest, who were to compose the base of the car of Juggernaut. They
• 4:27:18
  all stretched themselves on the floor, their noses pointing to the ceiling. A
• 4:27:22
  second group of artists disposed themselves on these long appendages, then a third above
• 4:27:27
  these, then a fourth, until a human monument, reaching to the very
• 4:27:33
  cornices of the theater soon arose on top of the noses. This solicited loud
• 4:27:37
  applause, in the midst of which the orchestra was just striking up a deafening
• 4:27:42
  air. When the pyramids tottered, the balance was lost, one of the
• 4:27:48
  lower noses vanished from the pyramid, and the human monument was shattered like a
• 4:27:52
  castle built of cards. It was Passepartout's fault, abandoning his position, clearing
• 4:28:00
  the footlights without the aid of his wings, and clambering up to the right
• 4:28:03
  hand gallery. He fell at the feet of one of the spectators, crying,
• 4:28:08
  ah, my master, my master, you here myself very well.
• 4:28:18
  Then let us go to the steamer, young man. Mister fogg Aouda and
• 4:28:22
  Passepartou passed through the lobby of the theater to the outside, where they encountered
• 4:28:27
  the Honorable mister battle Car. Furious with rage, he demanded damages for the
• 4:28:33
  breakage of the pyramid, and Phileas Fogg appeased him by giving him a handful
• 4:28:37
  of banknotes. At half past six, the very hour of departure, mister
• 4:28:42
  Fogg and Aouda, followed by Passepartout, who in his hurry had retained his
• 4:28:48
  wings and nose six feet long, stepped upon the American steamer end of chapter
• 4:28:56
  chapter twenty four, during which mister Fogg and party crossed the Pacific Ocean.
• 4:29:06
  What happened when the pilot boat came in sight of Shanghai will be easily guessed.
• 4:29:11
  The signals made by the tankadere had been seen by the captain of the
• 4:29:14
  Yokohama steamer, who, espying the flag at half mast, had directed his
• 4:29:19
  course towards the little craft. Phileas Fogg, after paying the stipulated price of
• 4:29:25
  his passage to John Busby and rewarding that worthy with the additional sum of five
• 4:29:30
  hundred and fifty pounds, ascended the steamer with Aouda and fix, and they
• 4:29:34
  started it once for Nagasaki. And Yokohama. They reached their destination on the
• 4:29:41
  morning of the fourteenth of November. Phileas Fogg lost no time in going on
• 4:29:45
  board the Carnatic, where he learned to owde as great delight and perhaps to
• 4:29:51
  his own, though he betrayed no emotion that Passepartout, a Frenchman, had
• 4:29:56
  really arrived on her the day before. San Francisco's steamer was announced to leave
• 4:30:02
  that very evening, and it became necessary to find Passepartout, if possible without
• 4:30:07
  delay. Mister Fogg applied in Vain to the French and English consuls, and
• 4:30:14
  after wandering through the streets a long time, began to despair of finding his
• 4:30:18
  missing servant. Chance, or perhaps a kind of presentiment, at last led
• 4:30:23
  him into the honorable mister Battlecr's theatre. He certainly would not have recognized Passpartu
• 4:30:30
  in the eccentric Mountebank's costume, but the latter, lying on his back,
• 4:30:34
  perceived his master in the gallery. He could not help starting, which so
• 4:30:40
  changed the position of his nose as to bring the pyramid Pellmell upon the stage.
• 4:30:47
  All this Passpartout learned from Aouda, who recounted to him what had taken
• 4:30:51
  place on the voyage from Hong Kong to Shanghai on the Takadare, in company
• 4:30:56
  with one mister fix pass part Tis, who did not change countenance on hearing
• 4:31:02
  this name. He thought that the time had not yet arrived to divulge to
• 4:31:06
  his master what had taken place between the detective and himself, And in the
• 4:31:11
  account he gave of his absence, he simply excused himself for having been overtaken
• 4:31:15
  by drunkenness in smoking opiumenta tavern in Hong Kong. Mister Fogg heard this narrative
• 4:31:23
  coldly, without a word, and then furnished his man with funds necessary to
• 4:31:29
  obtain clothing more in harmony with his position. Within an hour, the Frenchman
• 4:31:34
  had cut off his nose and parted with his wings, and retained nothing about
• 4:31:40
  him, which recalled the sectary of the god Tingou. The steamer, which
• 4:31:45
  was about to depart from Yokohama to San Francisco, belonged to the Pacific Mail
• 4:31:49
  Steamship Company and was named the General Grant. She was a large paddlewheel steamer
• 4:31:56
  of two thousand, five hundred tons, whipped and very fast. The massive
• 4:32:03
  walking beam rose and fell above the deck. At one end a piston rod
• 4:32:07
  worked up and down, and at the other was a connecting rod, which,
• 4:32:11
  in changing the rectilinear motion to a circular one, was directly connected with
• 4:32:17
  the shaft of the paddles. The general grant was rigged with three masts,
• 4:32:22
  giving a large capacity for sales and thus materially aiding the steam power. By
• 4:32:26
  making twelve miles an hour, she would cross the ocean in twenty one days.
• 4:32:32
  Phileas Fogg was therefore justified in hoping that he would reach San Francisco by
• 4:32:37
  the second of December, New York by the eleventh, and London on the
• 4:32:41
  twentieth, thus gaining several hours. On the fatal date of the twenty first
• 4:32:47
  of December, there was a full complement of passengers on board, among them
• 4:32:52
  English, many Americans, a large number of coolies on their way to California,
• 4:32:59
  and several e Indian officers who were spending their vacation in making the tour
• 4:33:03
  of the world. Nothing of moment happened on the voyage. The steamer sustained
• 4:33:08
  on its large paddles, rolled but little, and the Pacific almost justified its
• 4:33:15
  name. Mister Fogg was as calm and taciturn as. Ever, his young
• 4:33:21
  companion felt herself more and more attached to him by other ties than gratitude.
• 4:33:26
  His silent but generous nature impressed her more than she thought, and it was
• 4:33:30
  almost unconsciously that she yielded to emotions which did not seem to have the least
• 4:33:36
  effect upon her protector. Aouda took the keenest interest in his plans and became
• 4:33:41
  impatient at any instant which seemed likely to retard his journey. She often chatted
• 4:33:48
  with Passepartout, who did not fail to perceive the state of the lady's heart,
• 4:33:52
  and, being the most faithful of domestics, he never exhausted his eulogies
• 4:33:56
  of Phileas Fogg's honesty, generosity, the end devotion. He took pains to
• 4:34:02
  call Maouda's doubts of a successful termination of the journey, telling her that the
• 4:34:07
  most difficult part of it had passed, that now they were beyond the fantastic
• 4:34:11
  countries of Japan and China and were fairly on their way to civilize places again.
• 4:34:18
  A railway train from San Francisco to New York and a Transatlantic steamer from
• 4:34:22
  New York to Liverpool would doubtless bring them to the end of this impossible journey
• 4:34:27
  round the world within the period agreed upon. On the ninth day after leaving
• 4:34:33
  Yokohama, Phileas Fogg had traversed exactly one half of the terrestrial globe. The
• 4:34:40
  general Grant passed on the twenty third of November the one hundred and eightieth meridian,
• 4:34:45
  and was at the very antipodes of London. Mister Fogg had, it
• 4:34:51
  is true, exhausted fifty two of the eighty days in which he was to
• 4:34:55
  complete the tour, and there were only twenty eight left. But though he
• 4:35:00
  was only half way by the difference of meridians, he had really gone over
• 4:35:03
  two thirds of the whole journey, for he had been obliged to make long
• 4:35:07
  circuits from London to Aiden, from Aiden to Bombay, from Calcutta to Singapore,
• 4:35:14
  and from Singapore to Yokohama. Could he have followed without deviation the fiftieth
• 4:35:18
  parallel, which is that of London, the whole distance would only have been
• 4:35:23
  about twelve thousand miles, whereas he would be forced, by the irregular methods
• 4:35:29
  of locomotion, to traverse twenty six thousand, of which he had on the
• 4:35:33
  twenty third of November accomplished seventeen thousand, five hundred and now the course was
• 4:35:41
  a straight one, and Fix was no longer there to put obstacles in their
• 4:35:45
  way. It happened also on the twenty third of November that Passpartu made a
• 4:35:51
  joyful discovery. It will be remembered that the obstinate fellow had insisted on keeping
• 4:35:56
  his famous family watch at London time, and on regarding that of the countries
• 4:36:00
  he had passed through as quite false and unreliable. Now on this day,
• 4:36:07
  though he had not changed the hands, he found that his watch exactly agreed
• 4:36:11
  with the ship's chronometers. His triumph was hilarious. He would have liked to
• 4:36:17
  know what Fix would say if he were aboard. Zavrogue told me a lot
• 4:36:22
  of stories, repeated Passepartout, about the Meridians, the sun and the moon
• 4:36:27
  moon. Indeed, moonshine. More likely if one listened to that sort of
• 4:36:33
  people, a pretty sort of time, one would keep. I am sure
• 4:36:37
  that the sun would someday regulate itself by my watch. Passepartout was ignorant that
• 4:36:44
  if the face of his watch had been divided into twenty four hours. Like
• 4:36:48
  the Italian clocks, he would have no reason for exultation, for the hands
• 4:36:52
  of his watch would, then, instead of as now recording nine o'clock in
• 4:36:57
  the morning, kate nine o'clock in the evening, that is, the twenty
• 4:37:03
  first hour after midnight, precisely the difference between London time and that of the
• 4:37:07
  one hundred and eightieth meridian. But if Fix had been able to explain this
• 4:37:12
  purely physical effect, pass Partout would not have admitted even if he had comprehended
• 4:37:18
  it. Moreover, if the detective had been on board at that moment,
• 4:37:23
  pass Partout would have joined issue with him on a quite different subject and in
• 4:37:29
  an entirely different manner. Where was Fix at that moment he was actually on
• 4:37:36
  board the general Grant. On reaching Yokohama, the detective, leaving mister Fogg,
• 4:37:41
  whom he expected to meet again during the day, had repaired it once
• 4:37:45
  to the English consulate, where he at last found the warrant of arrest.
• 4:37:51
  It had followed him from Bombay and had come by the Carnatic on which steamer
• 4:37:56
  he himself was supposed to be. Disappointment may be imagined when he reflected that
• 4:38:03
  the warrant was now useless. Mister Fogg had left English ground, and it
• 4:38:07
  was now necessary to procure his extradition. Well thought fix after a moment of
• 4:38:15
  anger, my warrant is not good here, but it will be in England.
• 4:38:19
  The rogue evidently intends to return to his own country, thinking he has
• 4:38:23
  thrown the police office track good. I will follow him across the Atlantic.
• 4:38:30
  As for the money, hevn't grant. There may be some left, but
• 4:38:33
  the fellow has already spent in traveling, rewards, trials, bail, elephants,
• 4:38:40
  and all sorts of charges more than five thousand pounds. Yet after all,
• 4:38:47
  the bank is rich. His course decided on, he went on board
• 4:38:52
  the General Grant and was there when mister Fogg and Aouda arrived. To his
• 4:38:57
  utter amazement, he recognized Passepartout despite his theatrical disguise. He quickly concealed himself
• 4:39:06
  in his cabin to avoid an awkward explanation, and hoped, thanks to the
• 4:39:11
  number of passengers, to remain unperceived by mister Fogg's servant. On that very
• 4:39:18
  day, however, he met Passepartout face to face on the forward deck.
• 4:39:23
  The latter without a word made a rush for him, grasped him by the
• 4:39:27
  throat, and, much to the amusement of a group of Americans, who
• 4:39:32
  immediately began to bet on him, administered to the detective a perfect volley of
• 4:39:37
  blows which proved the great superiority of French over English pugilistic skill. When Passepartout
• 4:39:45
  had finished, he found himself relieved and comforted. Fix got up in a
• 4:39:49
  somewhat rumpled condition, and, looking at his adversary, coldly said, have
• 4:39:56
  you done for this time? Yes? Yes, then let me have a
• 4:40:02
  word with you, But I in your master's interests. Passepartout seemed to be
• 4:40:10
  vanquished by Fix's coolness, for he quietly followed him and they sat down aside
• 4:40:15
  from the rest of the passengers. You have given me a thrashing, said
• 4:40:21
  Fix. Good, I expected it. Now listen to me. Up to
• 4:40:26
  this time I have been mister Fogg's adversary. I am now in his game.
• 4:40:32
  Ah ha, cried Passepartout. You are convinced he is an honest man,
• 4:40:37
  No, replied Fix coldly. I think him a rascal. Sh don't
• 4:40:42
  budge and let me speak. As long as mister Fogg was on English ground,
• 4:40:48
  it was for my interest to detain him there until my warrant of arrest
• 4:40:52
  arrived. I did everything I could to keep him back. I sent the
• 4:40:56
  Bombay Priests after him. I got you intoxicated at Hong Kong, I separated
• 4:41:03
  you from him, and I made him miss the Yokohama steamer. Passepartout listened
• 4:41:07
  with closed fists now resumed Fix mister Fogg seems to be going back to England.
• 4:41:17
  Well, I will follow him there, but hereafter I will do as
• 4:41:21
  much to keep obstacles out of his way as I have done up to this
• 4:41:25
  time to put them in his path. I've changed my game, you see,
• 4:41:29
  and simply because it was for my interest to change it. Your interest
• 4:41:33
  is the same as mine, for it is only in England that you will
• 4:41:37
  ascertain whether you are in the service of a criminal or an honest man.
• 4:41:41
  Passepartout listened very attentively to Fix, and was convinced that he spoke with entire
• 4:41:47
  good faith. Are we friends, asked the detective. Friends, No,
• 4:41:55
  replied Passepartout, But allies, perhaps at the least sign of treason. However,
• 4:42:00
  I'll twist your neck for you, agreed, said the detective quietly.
• 4:42:07
  Eleven days later, on the third of December, the General Grant entered the
• 4:42:12
  Bay of the Golden Gate and reached San Francisco. Mister Fogg had neither gained
• 4:42:18
  nor lost a single day. End of chapter Chapter twenty five, in which
• 4:42:25
  a slight glimpse is had of San Francisco. It was seven in the morning
• 4:42:33
  when mister Fogg, Aouda and Passepartou set foot upon the American continent. If
• 4:42:38
  this name can be given to the floating key upon which they disembarked. These
• 4:42:44
  keys, rising and falling with the tide, thus facilitate the loading and unloading
• 4:42:48
  of vessels. Alongside them were clippers of all sizes, steamers of all nationalities,
• 4:42:56
  and the steamboats with several decks rising bad one above the other, which
• 4:43:00
  ply on the Sacramento and its tributaries. There were also heaped up the products
• 4:43:07
  of a commerce which extends to Mexico, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Europe,
• 4:43:11
  Asia and all the Pacific islands. Past Part two. In his joy
• 4:43:17
  on reaching at last the American continent, thought he would manifest it by executing
• 4:43:22
  a perilous vault in fine style, but tumbling upon some worm eaten planks.
• 4:43:27
  He fell through them. Put out of countenance by the manner in which he
• 4:43:32
  thus set foot upon the new world, he uttered a loud cry, which
• 4:43:37
  so frightened the innumerable comorants and pelicans that are always perched upon these immovable keys,
• 4:43:44
  that they flew noisily away. Mister Fogg, on reaching shore, proceeded
• 4:43:49
  to find out at what hour the first train left for New York, and
• 4:43:53
  learned that this was at six o'clock p m. He had therefore an entire
• 4:43:59
  day to spend in the Californian capital. Taking a carriage at a charge of
• 4:44:03
  three dollars, he and Aouda entered it, while Passepartout mounted the box beside
• 4:44:10
  the driver, and they set out for the International Hotel. From his exalted
• 4:44:15
  position, Passepartout observed with much curiosity the wide streets, the low, evenly
• 4:44:22
  ranged houses, the Anglo Saxon Gothic churches, the great docks, the palacio,
• 4:44:27
  wooden and brick warehouses, the numerous conveyances, omnibuses, horse cars,
• 4:44:33
  and upon the sidewalks not only Americans and Europeans, but Chinese and Indians.
• 4:44:41
  Passepartout was surprised at all he saw San Francisco was no longer the legendary city
• 4:44:47
  of eighteen forty nine, a city of banditti, assassins and incendiaries who had
• 4:44:52
  flocked hither in crowds in pursuit of plunder, a paradise of outlaws, where
• 4:44:57
  they gambled with gold des thus a revolver in one hand and a bowie knife
• 4:45:03
  in the other. It was now a great commercial emporium. The lofty tower
• 4:45:08
  of its City Hall overlooked the whole panorama of the streets and avenues, which
• 4:45:12
  cut each other at right angles, and in the midst of which appeared pleasant,
• 4:45:18
  verdant squares, while beyond appeared the Chinese Quarter, seemingly imported from the
• 4:45:23
  Celestial Empire in a toy box. Sombreros and red shirts and plumed Indians were
• 4:45:30
  rarely to be seen, but there were silk hats and black coats everywhere,
• 4:45:34
  worn by a multitude of nervously active gentlemen looking men. Some of the streets,
• 4:45:41
  especially Montgomery Street, which is to San Francisco what Regent Street is to
• 4:45:45
  London, the Boulevard des Italien to Paris and Broadway to New York, were
• 4:45:52
  lined with splendid and spacious stores which exposed in their windows the products of the
• 4:45:57
  entire world. When Passepartou reached the International Hotel, it did not seem to
• 4:46:03
  him as if he had left England at all. The ground floor of the
• 4:46:07
  hotel was occupied by a large bar, a sort of restaurant freely opened to
• 4:46:12
  all passers by, who might partake of dried beef, oyster soup, biscuits
• 4:46:18
  and cheese without taking out their purses. Payment was made only for the ale
• 4:46:23
  porter or sherry which was drunk. This seemed very American to Passepartout. The
• 4:46:30
  hotel refreshment rooms were comfortable, and mister Fogg and Aouda, installing themselves at
• 4:46:37
  a table, were abundantly served on diminutive plates by negroes of darkest hue.
• 4:46:44
  After breakfast, mister Fogg, accompanied by Aouda, started for the English consulate
• 4:46:48
  to have his passport visaed. As he was going out, he met Passpartout,
• 4:46:53
  who asked him if it would not be well before taking the train to
• 4:46:59
  purchase some dozens of Enfield rifles and Colt's revolvers. He had been listening to
• 4:47:04
  stories of attacks upon the trains by the Sioux and Pawnees. Mister Fogg thought
• 4:47:10
  it a useless precaution, but told him to do as he thought best,
• 4:47:14
  and went on to the consulate. He had not proceeded two hundred steps.
• 4:47:18
  However, when by the greatest chance in the world, he met Fix,
• 4:47:25
  the detective seemed wholly taken by surprise. What had mister Fogg and himself crossed
• 4:47:32
  the Pacific together and not met on the steamer. At least Fix felt honored
• 4:47:37
  to behold once more the gentleman to whom he owed so much, and as
• 4:47:41
  his business recalled him to Europe, he should be delighted to continue the journey
• 4:47:47
  in such pleasant company. Mister Fogg replied that the honor would be his,
• 4:47:52
  and the detective, who was determined not to lose sight of him, begged
• 4:47:56
  permission to accompany them in their walk about Sandford, a request which mister Fogg
• 4:48:03
  readily granted. They soon found themselves in Montgomery Street, where a great crowd
• 4:48:08
  was collected. The sidewalks, street horse car rails, the shop doors,
• 4:48:14
  the windows of the houses, and even the roofs were full of people.
• 4:48:18
  Men were going about carrying large posters and flags, and streamers were floating in
• 4:48:23
  the wind, while loud cries were heard on every hand. Hurrah for Camerfield,
• 4:48:30
  Hurrah for men to boy It was a political meeting, at least,
• 4:48:34
  so fixed conjectured, who said to mister Fogg, perhaps we had better not
• 4:48:40
  mingle with the crowd. There may be danger in it, Yes, returned
• 4:48:45
  mister Fogg. And blows, even if they are political, are still blows.
• 4:48:52
  Vic smiled at this remark, and, in order to be able to
• 4:48:55
  see without being jostled about, the party took up a position on the top
• 4:48:59
  of a flight of steps situated at the upper end of Montgomery Street. Opposite
• 4:49:04
  them, on the other side of the street, between a coal wharf and
• 4:49:07
  a petroleum warehouse, a large platform had been erected in the open air,
• 4:49:12
  towards which the current of the crowd seemed to be directed. For What purpose
• 4:49:18
  was this meeting? What was the occasion of this excited assemblage phileas Fogg could
• 4:49:25
  not imagine. Was it to nominate some high official, a governor or member
• 4:49:30
  of Congress? It was not improbable. So agitated was the multitude before them.
• 4:49:38
  Just at this moment there was an unusual stir in the human mass.
• 4:49:42
  All the hands were raised in the air, some tightly closed seemed to disappear
• 4:49:48
  suddenly in the midst of the cries, an energetic way, no doubt of
• 4:49:52
  casting a vote. The crowd swayed backed. The banners and flags wavered,
• 4:49:57
  disappeared an instant, then reappear eared in tatters. The undulations of the human
• 4:50:03
  surge reached the steps, while all the heads floundered on the surface, like
• 4:50:07
  a sea agitated by a squall. Many of the black hats disappeared, and
• 4:50:11
  the greater part of the crowd seemed to have diminished in height. It is
• 4:50:17
  evidently a meeting, said Fix, and its object must be an exciting one.
• 4:50:22
  I should not wonder if it were about the Alabama, despite the fact
• 4:50:26
  that that question is settled, perhaps, replied mister Fogg, simply, at
• 4:50:33
  least there are two champions in presence of each other, the honorable mister Camerfield
• 4:50:37
  and the honorable mister mandiboy Aouda, leaning upon mister Fogg's arm, observed the
• 4:50:45
  tumultuous scene with surprise, while Fix asked a man near him what the cause
• 4:50:49
  of it all was. Before the man could reply, a fresh agitation arose.
• 4:50:55
  Hurrahs and excited shouts were heard. The staffs of the banners began to
• 4:51:00
  be used as offensive weapons, and fists flew about in every direction. Thumps
• 4:51:04
  were exchanged from the tops of the carriages and omnibuses, which had been blocked
• 4:51:10
  up in the crowd. Boots and shoes went whirling through the air, and
• 4:51:15
  mister Fogg thought he even heard the crack of revolvers mingling in the din.
• 4:51:19
  The route approached the stairway and flowed over the lower step. One of the
• 4:51:23
  parties had evidently been repulsed, but the mere lookers on could not tell whether
• 4:51:29
  Mandiboy or Camerfield had gained the upper hand. It would be prudent for us
• 4:51:33
  to retire, said Fix, who was anxious that mister Fogg should not receive
• 4:51:38
  any injury, at least until they got back to London. If there is
• 4:51:44
  any question about England and all this, and we were recognized, I feared
• 4:51:48
  would go hard with us. An English subject began mister Fogg. He did
• 4:51:55
  not finish his sentence, for a terrific hubub now arose on the terrace behind
• 4:52:00
  the flight of steps where they stood, and there were frantic shouts of hurrah
• 4:52:04
  for men to boy hip a hurrah. It was a band of voters coming
• 4:52:10
  to the rescue of their allies and taking the Camerfield forces in flank. Mister
• 4:52:15
  Fogg, Aouda and Fix found themselves between two fires. It was too late
• 4:52:19
  to escape. The torrent of men armed with loaded canes and sticks was irresistible.
• 4:52:26
  Phileas Fogg and Fix were roughly hustled in their attempts to protect their fair
• 4:52:32
  companion. The former, as cool as ever, tried to defend herself with
• 4:52:37
  the weapons which nature has placed at the end of every Englishman's arm. But
• 4:52:41
  in vain, a big, brawny fellow with a red beard, flushed face,
• 4:52:45
  and broad shoulders, who seemed to be the chief of the band,
• 4:52:48
  raised his clenched fists to strike mister Fogg, whom he would have given a
• 4:52:52
  crushing blow had not Fix rushed in and received it in his stead. An
• 4:52:59
  enormous bruise immediately made its appearance under the detective's silk hat, which was completely
• 4:53:04
  smashed in Yankee, exclaimed mister Fogg, darting a contemptuous look at the ruffian
• 4:53:12
  Englishmen, returned the other. We will meet again when you please. What
• 4:53:19
  is your name, Phileas Fogg and yours? Colonel Stamp Proctor, the human
• 4:53:27
  tide now swept by after overturning Fix, who speedily got upon his feet again,
• 4:53:33
  though with tattered clothes. Happily, he was not seriously hurt. His
• 4:53:38
  traveling overcoat was divided into two unequal parts, and his trousers resembled those of
• 4:53:45
  certain Indians, which fit less compactly than they are easy to put on.
• 4:53:49
  Aouda had escaped unharmed, and Fix alone bore marks of the fray in his
• 4:53:53
  black and blue bruise. Thanks, said mister Fogg to the detective, as
• 4:54:00
  soon as they were out of the crowd. No thanks are necessary, replied
• 4:54:04
  Fix, but let us go where to a tailor's. Such a visit was
• 4:54:12
  indeed opportune. The clothing of both mister Fogg and Fix was in rags,
• 4:54:18
  as if they had themselves been actively engaged in the contest between Camerfield and Mandiboy.
• 4:54:25
  An hour after they were once more suitably attired and with Aouda returned to
• 4:54:30
  the International Hotel, Passepartout was waiting for his master, armed with half a
• 4:54:36
  dozen six barreled revolvers. When he perceived Fix, he knit his brows,
• 4:54:41
  but Aouda, having in a few words told him of their adventure. His
• 4:54:45
  countenance resumed its placid expression. Fix evidently was no longer an enemy, but
• 4:54:52
  an ally, and he was faithfully keeping his word. Dinner over the coach,
• 4:54:57
  which was to convey the passengers and their luggage to the station, drew
• 4:55:02
  up to the door. As he was getting in. Mister Fogg said to
• 4:55:06
  Fix, you have not seen this Colonel Proctor again. No, I will
• 4:55:12
  come back to America to find him, said Phileas Fogg, calmly. It
• 4:55:18
  would not be right for an Englishman to permit himself to be treated in that
• 4:55:22
  way without retaliating. The detective smiled but did not reply. It was clear
• 4:55:29
  that mister Fogg was one of those Englishmen who, while they do not tolerate
• 4:55:33
  dueling at home, fight abroad when their honor is attacked. At a quarter
• 4:55:38
  before six, the travelers reached the station and found the train ready to depart.
• 4:55:45
  As he was about to enter it, mister Fogg called a porter and
• 4:55:48
  said to him, my friend, was there not some trouble today in San
• 4:55:52
  Francisco? It was a political meeting, Sir, replied the porter. But
• 4:55:59
  I I thought there was a great deal of disturbance in the streets. It
• 4:56:03
  was only a meeting assembled for an election, the election of a general in
• 4:56:10
  chief. No doubt, asked mister Fogg, No, sir, I'm a
• 4:56:15
  justice of the peace. Phileas Fogg got into the train, which started off
• 4:56:21
  at full speed. End of chapter Chapter twenty six, in which Phileas Fogg
• 4:56:27
  and party traveled by the Pacific Railroad from ocean to ocean. So say the
• 4:56:37
  Americans, and these four words composed the general designation of the Great Trunk Line,
• 4:56:41
  which crosses the entire width of the United States. The Pacific Railroad is,
• 4:56:47
  however, really divided into two distinct lines, the Central Pacific between San
• 4:56:52
  Francisco and Ogden and the Union Pacific between Ogden and Omaha. Five main lines
• 4:57:00
  Omaha with New York, New York, and San Francisco are thus united by
• 4:57:04
  an uninterrupted metal ribbon, which measures no less than three thousand, seven hundred
• 4:57:11
  eighty six miles. Between Omaha and the Pacific, the railway crosses a territory
• 4:57:15
  which is still infested by Indians and wild beasts, and a large tract which
• 4:57:21
  the Mormons, after they were driven from Illinois in eighteen forty five, began
• 4:57:26
  to colonize. The journey from New York to San Francisco consumed formally under the
• 4:57:33
  most favorable conditions at least six months. It is now accomplished in seven days.
• 4:57:40
  It was in eighteen sixty two that, in spite of the southern members
• 4:57:44
  of Congress who wished a more southerly route, it was decided to lay the
• 4:57:48
  road between the forty first and forty second parallels. President Lincoln himself fixed the
• 4:57:55
  end of the line at Omaha in Nebraska. The work was at once commanded
• 4:58:00
  and pursued with the true American energy, nor did the rapidity with which it
• 4:58:04
  went on injuriously affect its good execution. The road grew on the prairies a
• 4:58:11
  mile and a half a day. A locomotive running on the rails laid down
• 4:58:15
  the evening before, brought the rails to be laid on the morrow, and
• 4:58:19
  advanced upon them as fast as they were put in position. The Pacific Railroad
• 4:58:25
  is joined by several branches in Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, and Oregon.
• 4:58:30
  On leaving Omaha, it passes along the left bank of the Platte River as
• 4:58:34
  far as the junction of its northern branch follows its southern branch crosses the Laramie
• 4:58:40
  Territory and the Wasatch Mountains, turns the Great Salt Lake and reaches Salt Lake
• 4:58:45
  City, the Mormon capital, plunges into the Tuila Valley, across the American
• 4:58:52
  Desert, Cedar and Humboldt Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, and descends via Sacramento
• 4:58:59
  to the Pacific, its grade even on the Rocky Mountains, never exceeding one
• 4:59:03
  hundred and twelve feet to the mile. Such was the road to be traversed
• 4:59:08
  in seven days, which would enable Phileas Fogg at least, so he hoped
• 4:59:14
  to take the Atlantic Steamer at New York on the eleventh for Liverpool. The
• 4:59:19
  car which he occupied was a sort of long omnibus on eight wheels and with
• 4:59:23
  no compartments in the interior. It was supplied with two rows of seats perpendicular
• 4:59:30
  to the direction of the train, on either side of an aisle which conducted
• 4:59:33
  to the front and rear platforms. These platforms were found throughout the train,
• 4:59:40
  and the passengers were able to pass from one end of the train to the
• 4:59:42
  other. It was supplied with saloon cars, balcony cars, restaurants and smoking
• 4:59:49
  cars. Theater cars alone were wanting and they will have these. Some day
• 4:59:55
  book and news dealers, sellers of the edibles, drinkables, and cigars,
• 5:00:00
  who seemed to have plenty of customers, were continually circulating in the aisles.
• 5:00:04
  The train left Oakland Station at six o'clock. It was already night, cold
• 5:00:11
  and cheerless, the heavens being overcast with clouds which seemed to threaten snow.
• 5:00:17
  The train did not proceed rapidly. Counting the stoppages, it did not run
• 5:00:21
  more than twenty miles an hour, which was a sufficient speed, however,
• 5:00:26
  to enable it to reach Omaha within its designated time. There was but little
• 5:00:30
  conversation in the car, and soon many of the passengers were overcome with sleep.
• 5:00:37
  Passepartout found himself beside the detective, but he did not talk to him.
• 5:00:42
  After recent events, their relations with each other had grown somewhat cold.
• 5:00:48
  There could no longer be mutual sympathy or intimacy between them. Fix's manner had
• 5:00:52
  not changed, but Passepartout was very reserved and ready to strangle his former friend
• 5:00:59
  on the slighest provocation. Snow began to fall an hour after they started,
• 5:01:06
  a fine snow, however, which happily could not obstruct the train. Nothing
• 5:01:11
  could be seen from the windows but a vast white sheet, against which the
• 5:01:15
  smoke of the locomotive had a grayish aspect. At eight o'clock, a steward
• 5:01:19
  entered the car and announced that the time for going to bed had arrived,
• 5:01:23
  and in a few minutes the car was transformed into a dormitory. The backs
• 5:01:29
  of the seats were thrown back, bedsteads carefully packed, were rolled out by
• 5:01:33
  an ingenious system. Berths were suddenly improvised, and each traveler had soon had
• 5:01:40
  his disposition a comfortable bed, protected from curious eyes by thick curtains. The
• 5:01:45
  sheets were clean and the pillows soft. It only remained to go to bed
• 5:01:51
  and sleep, which everybody did while the train sped on across the state of
• 5:01:56
  California. The country between San Francisco and Sacramento is not very hilly. The
• 5:02:03
  Central Pacific, taking Sacramento for its starting point, extends eastward to meet the
• 5:02:08
  road from Omaha. The line from San Francisco to Sacramento runs in a northeasterly
• 5:02:15
  direction along the American River, which empties into San Pablo Bay. The one
• 5:02:19
  hundred and twenty miles between these cities was accomplished in six hours, and towards
• 5:02:26
  midnight, while fast asleep, the travelers passed through Sacramento, so that they
• 5:02:32
  saw nothing of that important place, the seat of the state government, with
• 5:02:36
  its fine keys, its broad streets, its noble hotels, squares and churches.
• 5:02:42
  The train, on leaving Sacramento and passing the junction Rokland, Auburn and
• 5:02:48
  Colfax, entered the range of the Sierra Nevada. Cisco was reached at seven
• 5:02:56
  in the morning, and an hour later the dormitory was transformed into to an
• 5:03:00
  ordinary car, and the travelers could observe the picturesque beauties of the mountain region
• 5:03:04
  through which they were steaming. The railway track wound in and out among the
• 5:03:10
  passes, now approaching the mountain sides, now suspended over precipices, avoiding abrupt
• 5:03:17
  angles by bold curves, plunging into narrow defiles which seemed to have no outlet.
• 5:03:23
  The locomotive, its great funnel, emitting a weird light, with its
• 5:03:27
  sharp bell and its cowcatcher extended like a spur mingled its shrieks and bellowings with
• 5:03:33
  a noise of torrents and cascades, and twined its smoke among the branches of
• 5:03:38
  the Gigantic Pines. There were few or no bridges or tunnels on the route.
• 5:03:45
  The railway turned around the sides of the mountains and did not attempt to
• 5:03:48
  violate nature by taking the shortest cut from one point to another. The train
• 5:03:55
  entered the state of Nevada through the Carson Valley about nine o'clock, going always
• 5:04:00
  northeasterly, and at midday reached Reno, where there was a delay of twenty
• 5:04:06
  minutes for breakfast. From this point, the road running along Humboldt River passed
• 5:04:11
  northward for several miles by its banks. Then it turned eastward and kept by
• 5:04:17
  the river until it reached the Humboldt Range, nearly at the extreme eastern limit
• 5:04:22
  of Nevada. Having breakfasted, mister Fogg and his companions resumed their places in
• 5:04:27
  the car and observed the varied landscape which unfolded itself as they passed along the
• 5:04:33
  vast prairies, the mountains lining the horizon, and the creeks with their frothy,
• 5:04:40
  foaming streams. Sometimes a great herd of buffaloes massing together in the distance
• 5:04:45
  seemed like a movable dam. These innumerable multitudes of ruminating beasts often form an
• 5:04:53
  insurmountable obstacle to the passage of the trains. Thousands of them have been seen
• 5:04:59
  past over the track for hours together in compact ranks. The locomotive is then
• 5:05:04
  forced to stop and wait till the road is once more clear. This happened
• 5:05:10
  indeed to the train in which mister Fogg was traveling. About twelve o'clock.
• 5:05:15
  A troop of ten or twelve thousand head of buffalo encumbered the track. The
• 5:05:19
  locomotive, slackening at speed, tried to clear the way with its cowcatcher,
• 5:05:25
  but the massive animals was too great. The buffaloes marched along with a tranquil
• 5:05:30
  gait, uttering now and then deafening bellowings. There was no use of interrupting
• 5:05:36
  them, for having taken a particular direction, nothing can moderate and changed their
• 5:05:41
  course. It is a torrent of living flesh which no dam could contain.
• 5:05:48
  The travelers gazed on this curious spectacle from the platforms, But Phileas Fogg,
• 5:05:53
  who had the most reason of all to be in a hurry, remained in
• 5:05:56
  his seat and waited philosophic until it should please the buffaloes to get out of
• 5:06:02
  the way Passepartout was furious at the delay they occasioned, and longed to discharge
• 5:06:08
  his arsenal of revolvers upon them. What the country cried, He mere cattle.
• 5:06:15
  Stop the trains and go by any procession, just as if they were
• 5:06:18
  not impeding travel. Part Bleu. I should like to know if mister Fogg
• 5:06:23
  foresaw this missap in his program. And here's an engineer who doesn't dare to
• 5:06:29
  run the locomotive into this herd of beasts. The engineer did not try to
• 5:06:33
  overcome the obstacle, and he was wise. He would have crushed the first
• 5:06:37
  buffaloes, no doubt with the cowcatcher, but the locomotive, however powerful,
• 5:06:44
  would soon have been checked. The train would inevitably have been thrown off the
• 5:06:48
  track, and would then have been helpless. The best course was to wait
• 5:06:52
  patiently and regain the lost time by greater speed when the obstacle was removed.
• 5:06:59
  The rsh of buffaloes lasted three full hours, and it was night before the
• 5:07:04
  track was clear. The last ranks of the herd were now passing over the
• 5:07:08
  rails, while the first had already disappeared below the southern horizon. It was
• 5:07:15
  eight o'clock when the train passed through the defiles of the Humboldt Range, and
• 5:07:18
  half past nine when it penetrated Utah, the region of the Great Salt Lake,
• 5:07:23
  the singular colony of the Mormons. End of chapter Chapter twenty seven,
• 5:07:33
  in which Past Part two undergoes at a speed of twenty miles an hour,
• 5:07:37
  a course of Mormon history. During the night of the fifth of December,
• 5:07:42
  the train ran southeasterly for about fifty miles, then rose an equal distance in
• 5:07:48
  the northeasterly direction towards the Great Salt Lake. Past Part two about nine o'clock
• 5:07:53
  went out upon the platform to take the air. The weather was cold,
• 5:07:59
  the heavens go gray, but it was not snowing. The Sun's disc,
• 5:08:03
  enlarged by the mist, seemed an enormous ring of gold, and Passepartout was
• 5:08:07
  amusing himself by calculating its value impounds sterling, when he was diverted from this
• 5:08:14
  interesting study by a strange looking personage who made his appearance on the platform.
• 5:08:19
  This personage, who had taken the train at Elco, was tall and dark,
• 5:08:25
  with black mustache, black stockings, a black silk hat, a black
• 5:08:30
  waistcoat, black trousers, a white cravat, and dogskin gloves. He might
• 5:08:37
  have been taken for a clergyman. He went from one end of the train
• 5:08:40
  to the other and affixed to the door of each car a notice written in
• 5:08:44
  manuscript. Pasparteux approached and read one of these notices, which stated that Elder
• 5:08:51
  William Hitch, Mormon missionary, taking advantage of his presence on train number forty
• 5:08:56
  eight, would deliver a lecture on Mormonism in car number one one seventeen from
• 5:09:00
  eleven to twelve o'clock, and that he invited all who were desirous of being
• 5:09:04
  instructed concerning the mysteries of the religion of the Latter day Saints to attend.
• 5:09:11
  I'll go, said Passepartout to himself. He knew nothing of Mormonism except the
• 5:09:17
  custom of polygamy, which is its foundation. The news quickly spread through the
• 5:09:22
  train, which contained about one hundred passengers, thirty of whom, at most
• 5:09:27
  attracted by the notice ensconced themselves. In Car number one seventeen. Passepartout took
• 5:09:33
  one of the front seats. Neither mister Fogg nor Fix cared to attend.
• 5:09:38
  At the appointed hour. Elder William hitch rose, and, in an irritated
• 5:09:44
  voice, as if he had already been contradicted, said, I'll tell you
• 5:09:49
  that Joe Smith is a martyr, that his brother Hiram is a martyr,
• 5:09:53
  and that the persecutions of the United States Government against the prophets will also make
• 5:09:57
  a martyr of brighamy Ia who dares to say the contrary. No one ventured
• 5:10:04
  to gainsay the missionary, whose excited tone contrasted curiously with his naturally calm visage.
• 5:10:11
  No doubt his anger arose from the hardships to which the Mormons were actually
• 5:10:15
  subjected. The government had just succeeded, with some difficulty in reducing these independent
• 5:10:22
  fanatics to its rule. It made itself master of Utah and subjected that territory
• 5:10:29
  to the laws of the Union. After imprisoning Brigham Young on a charge of
• 5:10:33
  rebellion and polygamy. The disciples of the prophet had since redoubled their efforts and
• 5:10:40
  resisted by words, at least the authority of Congress. Elder Hitch, as
• 5:10:45
  is seen, was trying to make proselytes of the very railway trains, then
• 5:10:52
  emphasizing his words with his loud voice and frequent gestures. He related the history
• 5:10:56
  of the Mormons from biblical times, how that in Israel, a Mormon prophet
• 5:11:03
  of the tribe of Joseph, published the Annals of the New Religion and bequeathed
• 5:11:07
  them to his son Mormon. How many centuries later a translation of this precious
• 5:11:12
  book, which was written in Egyptian, was made by Joseph Smith Junior,
• 5:11:18
  a Vermont farmer who revealed himself as a mystical prophet in eighteen twenty five,
• 5:11:23
  and how in short, the celestial messenger appeared to him in an illuminated forest
• 5:11:30
  and gave him the Annals of the Lord. Several of the audience, not
• 5:11:34
  being much interested in the missionaries narrative, here left the car But Elder Hitch,
• 5:11:40
  continuing his lecture, related how Smith Junior, with his father, two
• 5:11:44
  brothers, and a few disciples, founded the Church of the Latter day Saints,
• 5:11:48
  which adopted not only in America, but in England, Norway, and
• 5:11:52
  Sweden and Germany. Counts many artisans as well as men engaged in the liberal
• 5:11:56
  professions among its members. While a colony was established in Ohio, a temple
• 5:12:02
  erected there at a cost of two hundred thousand dollars and a town built at
• 5:12:07
  Kirkland. How Smith became an enterprising banker and received from a simple mummy showman
• 5:12:12
  a papyrus scroll written by Abraham and several famous Egyptians. The elder's story became
• 5:12:18
  somewhat wearisome, and his audience grew gradually less until it was reduced to twenty
• 5:12:23
  passengers. But this did not disconcert the enthusiast, who proceeded with the story
• 5:12:30
  of Joseph Smith's bankruptcy in eighteen thirty seven, and how his ruined creditors gave
• 5:12:34
  him a coat of tar and feathers, his reappearance some years afterward more honorable
• 5:12:41
  and honored than ever at Independence Missouri, the chief of a flourishing colony of
• 5:12:45
  three thousand disciples and is pursuit thence by outraged gentiles and retirement into the far
• 5:12:52
  west. Ten hearers only were now left among them honest Passepartout, who was
• 5:12:59
  listening with all his ears. Thus he learned that after long persecutions, Smith
• 5:13:04
  reappeared in Illinois, and in eighteen thirty nine founded a community at Nauvoo on
• 5:13:10
  the Mississippi, numbering twenty five thousand souls, of which he became Mayor,
• 5:13:15
  Chief Justice and General in Chief, that he announced himself in eighteen forty three
• 5:13:21
  as a candidate for the presidency of the United States, and that finally being
• 5:13:26
  drawn into ambuscade at Carthage, he was thrown into prison and assassinated by a
• 5:13:30
  band of men disguised in masks. Passepartout was now the only person left in
• 5:13:37
  the car, and the elder, looking him full in the face, reminded
• 5:13:41
  him that two years after the assassination of Joseph Smith, the inspired prophet Brigham
• 5:13:47
  Young, his successor, left Nauvoo for the banks of the Great Salt Lake,
• 5:13:51
  where, in the midst of that fertile region, directly on the route
• 5:13:55
  of the emigrants who crossed Utah on their way to California, the new colony,
• 5:14:00
  thanks to the polygamy practiced by the Mormons, had flourished beyond expectations.
• 5:14:06
  And this, added Elder William Hitch, this is why the jealousy of Congress
• 5:14:11
  has been roused against us. Why have the soldiers of the Union invaded the
• 5:14:15
  soil of Utah. Why has Brigham Young, our chief, been imprisoned in
• 5:14:18
  contempt of all justice? Shall we yield a force never driven from Vermont,
• 5:14:26
  driven from Illinois, driven from Ohio, driven from Missouri, driven from Utah.
• 5:14:32
  We shall yet find some independent territory on which to plant our tents,
• 5:14:37
  and you, my brother, continued the elder, fixing his angry eyes upon
• 5:14:41
  his single auditor. Will you not plant yours there too, under the shadow
• 5:14:45
  of our flag? No, replied passepartout courageously in his turn, retiring from
• 5:14:53
  the car and leaving the elder to preach to vacancy. During the lecture,
• 5:14:59
  the train had been met making good progress, and towards half past twelve it
• 5:15:03
  reached the northwest border of the Great Salt Lake. Thence the passengers could observe
• 5:15:07
  the vast extent of this interior sea, which is also called the Dead Sea,
• 5:15:12
  and to which flows an American Jordan. It is a picturesque expanse,
• 5:15:18
  framed in lofty crags and large strata encrusted with white salt, a superb sheet
• 5:15:23
  of water which was formerly of larger extent than now, the shores having encroached
• 5:15:29
  with the lapse of time, and thus at once reduced its breadth and increased
• 5:15:33
  its depth. The Salt Lake, seventy miles long and thirty five wide is
• 5:15:40
  situated three miles eight hundred feet above the sea, quite different from Lake as
• 5:15:45
  Faultite, whose depression is twelve hundred feet below the sea. It contains considerable
• 5:15:51
  salt, and one quarter of the weight of its water is solid matter,
• 5:15:55
  its specific weight being one point one seven zero and after being distilled one point
• 5:16:00
  zero zero zero. Fishes are of course unable to live in it, and
• 5:16:07
  those which descend through the Jordan, the Weber and other streams soon perish.
• 5:16:12
  The country around the lake was well cultivated, for the Mormons are mostly farmers,
• 5:16:17
  while ranches and pens for domesticated animals. Fields of wheat, corn and
• 5:16:22
  other cereals. Luxuriant prairies, hedges of wild rows, clumps of acacias and
• 5:16:29
  milkwort would have been seen six months later. Now the ground was covered with
• 5:16:33
  a thin powdering of snow. The train reached Ogden at two o'clock, where
• 5:16:38
  it rested for six hours. Mister Fogg and his party had time to pay
• 5:16:42
  a visit to Salt Lake City, connected with Ogden by a branch road,
• 5:16:47
  and they spent two hours in this strikingly American town, built on the pattern
• 5:16:52
  of other cities of the Union, like a chequerboard with the somber sadness of
• 5:16:56
  right angles. As Victor Hugo Express, the founder of the City of the
• 5:17:02
  Saints, could not escape from the taste for symmetry which distinguishes the Anglo Saxons.
• 5:17:07
  In this strange country, where the people are certainly not up to the
• 5:17:11
  level of their institutions, everything is done squarely, cities, houses and follies.
• 5:17:19
  The travelers then were promenading at three o'clock about the streets of the town,
• 5:17:25
  built between the banks of the Jordan and the spurs of the Wassatch Range.
• 5:17:29
  They saw few or no churches, but the prophets mansion, the court
• 5:17:33
  house and the arsenal, blue brick houses with verandas and porches surrounded by gardens
• 5:17:38
  boarded with acacias, palms and locusts. A clay and pebpal wall built in
• 5:17:44
  eighteen fifty three surrounded the town, and in the principal street, where the
• 5:17:48
  market and several hotels adorned with pavilions. The place did not seem thickly populated.
• 5:17:56
  The streets were almost deserted, except in the vicinity of the town,
• 5:18:00
  which they only reached after having traversed several quarters surrounded by palisades. There were
• 5:18:06
  many women, which was easily accounted for by the peculiar institution of the Mormons.
• 5:18:11
  But it must not be supposed that all the Mormons are polygamists. They
• 5:18:17
  are free to marry or not as they please. But it is worth noting
• 5:18:21
  that a is mainly the female citizens of Utah who are anxious to marry,
• 5:18:25
  as according to the Mormon religion, maiden ladies are not admitted to the possession
• 5:18:30
  of its highest joys. These poor creatures seem to be neither well off nor
• 5:18:34
  happy. Some the more well to do, no doubt, wore short,
• 5:18:40
  open black silk dresses under a hood or modest shawl. Others were habited in
• 5:18:45
  Indian fashion. Passepartout could not behold without a certain fright. These women charged
• 5:18:52
  in groups with conferring happiness on a single Mormon. His common sense pitied above
• 5:18:57
  all the husband. It seemed to him a terrible thing to have to guide
• 5:19:03
  so many wives at once across the vicissitudes of life, and to conduct them,
• 5:19:08
  as it were, in a body to the Mormon paradise, with the
• 5:19:11
  prospect of seeing them in the company of the glorious Smith, who doubtless was
• 5:19:17
  the chief ornament of that delightful place to all eternity. He felt decidedly repelled
• 5:19:22
  from such a vocation, and he imagined perhaps he was mistaken that the fair
• 5:19:29
  ones of Salt Lake City cast rather alarming glances on his person. Happily,
• 5:19:33
  his stay there was but grief. At four, the party found themselves again
• 5:19:38
  at the station, took their places in the train, and the whistle sounded
• 5:19:42
  for starting. Just at the moment, however, that the locomotive wheels began
• 5:19:48
  to move, cries of stop, stop were heard. Trains like time and
• 5:19:55
  tide stopped for no one. The gentleman who uttered the cries was evidently a
• 5:20:00
  belated Mormon. He was breathless with running. Happily, for him, the
• 5:20:04
  station had neither gates nor barriers. He rushed along the track, jumped on
• 5:20:10
  the rear platform of the train, and fell exhausted into one of the seats.
• 5:20:15
  Passepartou, who had been anxiously watching this amateur gymnast, approached him with
• 5:20:19
  lively interest and learned that he had taken flight after an unpleasant domestic scene.
• 5:20:26
  When the Mormon had recovered his breath, Passepartou ventured to ask him politely how
• 5:20:30
  many wives he had, for from the manner in which he had decamped,
• 5:20:34
  it might be thought that he had twenty at least one, Sir, replied
• 5:20:40
  the Mormon, raising his arms heavenward one and that was enough. End of
• 5:20:47
  chapter Chapter twenty eight, in which Passpartiu does not succeed in making anybody listen
• 5:20:53
  to reason. The train, on leaving Great Salt Laken Ogden, passed northward
• 5:21:00
  for an hour as far as Weber River, having completed nearly nine hundred miles
• 5:21:06
  from San Francisco. From this point it took an easterly direction towards the jagged
• 5:21:11
  Wassatch Mountains. It was in this section included between this range and the Rocky
• 5:21:15
  Mountains, that the American engineers found the most formidable difficulties in laying the road,
• 5:21:22
  and that the government granted a subsidy of forty eight thousand dollars per mile
• 5:21:26
  instead of sixteen thousand allowed for the work done on the plains. But the
• 5:21:32
  engineers, instead of violating nature, avoided its difficulties by winding around instead of
• 5:21:37
  penetrating the rocks. One tunnel, only fourteen thousand feet in length, was
• 5:21:44
  pierced in order to arrive at the Great Basin. The track up to this
• 5:21:48
  time had reached its highest elevation at the Great Salt Lake. From this point
• 5:21:52
  it described a long curve descending towards Bitter Creek Valley to rise again to the
• 5:21:59
  dividing or ridge of the waters between the Atlantic and the Pacific. There were
• 5:22:03
  many creeks in this mountainous region, and it was necessary to cross Muddy Creek,
• 5:22:07
  Green Creek, and others upon colverts past. Partou grew more and more
• 5:22:14
  impatient as they went on, while Fix longed to get out of this difficult
• 5:22:18
  region, and was more anxious than Phileas Fogg himself to be beyond the danger
• 5:22:22
  of delays and accidents and set foot on English soil. At ten o'clock at
• 5:22:29
  night, the train stopped at Fort Bridger's Station, and twenty minutes later entered
• 5:22:33
  Wyoming Territory, following the valley of Bitter Creek. Throughout the next day,
• 5:22:38
  seventh December, they stopped for a quarter of an hour at Green River Station.
• 5:22:45
  Snow had fallen abundantly during the night, but being mixed with rain,
• 5:22:48
  it had half melted and did not interrupt their progress. The bad weather,
• 5:22:53
  however, annoyed pass Part two, For the accumulation of snow by blocking the
• 5:22:59
  wheels of the would certainly have been fatal to mister Fogg's tour. What an
• 5:23:04
  idea, he said to himself. Why did my master take this journey in
• 5:23:10
  winter? Couldn't he have waited for the good season to increase his chances.
• 5:23:15
  While the worthy Frenchman was absorbed in the state of the sky and the depression
• 5:23:18
  of the temperature, Aouda was experiencing fears from a totally different cause. Several
• 5:23:26
  passengers had got off at Green River and were walking up and down the platforms,
• 5:23:30
  and among these Aouda recognized Colonel Stamp Proctor, the same who had grossly
• 5:23:36
  insulted Phileas Fogg at the San Francisco meeting. Not wishing to be recognized,
• 5:23:41
  the young woman drew back from the window, feeling much alarm at her discovery.
• 5:23:47
  She was attached to the man, who, however coldly, gave her
• 5:23:51
  daily evidences of the most absolute devotion. She did not comprehend. Perhaps the
• 5:23:56
  depth of the sentiment with which her protector inspired tired her, which she called
• 5:24:02
  gratitude, but which, though she was unconscious of it, was really more
• 5:24:06
  than that. Her heart sank within her when she recognized the man whom mister
• 5:24:11
  Fogg desired sooner or later to call to account for his conduct. Chance alone,
• 5:24:17
  it was clear had brought Colonel Proctor on this train, But there he
• 5:24:21
  was, and it was necessary at all hazards that Phileas Fogg should not perceive
• 5:24:26
  his adversary. Aouda seized a moment when mister Fogg was asleep, to tell
• 5:24:32
  Fix and Passepartout, whom she had seen that Proctor on this train. Cried,
• 5:24:37
  Fix, Well, reassure yourself, madam, before he settles with mister
• 5:24:42
  Fogg. He has got to deal with me. It seems to me that
• 5:24:47
  I was the more insulted of the two ans. Besides, added Passepartout.
• 5:24:52
  I'll take charge of him Colonel as he is, mister Fix, resumed Aouda.
• 5:24:59
  Mister Fogg will allow no one to avenge him. He said that he
• 5:25:03
  would come back to America to find this man. Should he perceive Colonel Proctor.
• 5:25:08
  We could not prevent a collision which might have terrible results. He must
• 5:25:14
  not see him. You're right, madam, replied Fix. A meeting between
• 5:25:19
  them might ruin all, whether he was victorious or beaten, mister Fogg would
• 5:25:23
  be delayed, and and added Passepartout, that would play the game of the
• 5:25:30
  gentleman of the Reform Club. In four days we shall be in New York.
• 5:25:33
  Well, if my master does not leave this car during those four days,
• 5:25:38
  we may hope the chance will not bring him face to face with this
• 5:25:42
  confounded American. We must, if possible, prevent his stirring out of it.
• 5:25:48
  The conversation dropped. Mister Fogg had just woke up and was looking out
• 5:25:52
  at the window. Soon after pass Partou, without being heard by his master
• 5:25:59
  or owed, whispered to the detective, would you really fight for him?
• 5:26:04
  I would do anything, replied fix in a tone which betrayed determined will to
• 5:26:11
  get him back living to Europe. Passe Partout felt something like a shudder shoot
• 5:26:18
  through his frame, but his confidence in his master remained unbroken. Was there
• 5:26:23
  any means of detaining mister Fogg in the car to avoid a meeting between him
• 5:26:27
  and the colonel. It ought not to be a difficult task, since that
• 5:26:32
  gentleman was naturally sedentary and little curious. The detective at least seemed to have
• 5:26:37
  found a way, for after a few moments, he said to mister Fogg,
• 5:26:41
  these are long and slow hours, sir, that we are passing on
• 5:26:45
  the railway, Yes, replied mister Fogg, but they pass you were in
• 5:26:52
  the habit of playing Whist resumed fix on the steamers. Yes, but it
• 5:26:59
  would be difficult do so. Here I have neither cards nor partners. Oh,
• 5:27:04
  but we can easily buy some cards, for they are sold on all
• 5:27:07
  the American trains. And as for partners, if Madame plays, certainly,
• 5:27:14
  Sir, Aouda quickly replied, I understand whist. It is part of an
• 5:27:18
  English education. I myself have some pretensions to playing a good game. Well,
• 5:27:26
  here are three of us and a dummy. As you please, sir,
• 5:27:30
  replied Phileas Fogg, heartily glad to resume his favorite pastime, even on
• 5:27:34
  the railway. Passepartout was dispatched in search of the steward, and soon returned
• 5:27:40
  with two packs of cards, some pins, counters, and a shelf covered
• 5:27:44
  with cloth. The game commenced. Aouda understood Whist sufficiently well, and even
• 5:27:51
  received some compliments on her playing from mister Fogg. As for the detective,
• 5:27:56
  he was simply an adept and worthy of being matched against his present opponent.
• 5:28:02
  Now thought passepartout. We've got him. He won't budge. At eleven in
• 5:28:07
  the morning, the train had reached the dividing ridge of the waters at Bridger
• 5:28:11
  Pass, seven thousand, five hundred and twenty four feet above the level of
• 5:28:15
  the sea, one of the highest points attained by the track in crossing the
• 5:28:21
  Rocky Mountains. After going about two hundred miles, the travelers at last found
• 5:28:26
  themselves on one of those vast plains which extend to the Atlantic, and which
• 5:28:30
  nature has made so propitious for laying the Iron Road. On the declivity of
• 5:28:36
  the Atlantic basin, the first streams branches of the North Platte River already appeared.
• 5:28:42
  The whole northern and eastern horizon was bounded by the immense semi circular curtain
• 5:28:48
  which is formed by the southern portion of the Rocky Mountains, the highest being
• 5:28:52
  Laramie Peak. Between this and the railway extended vast plains, plentifully irrigated.
• 5:29:00
  When the right rose the lower spurs of the mountainous mass which extends southward to
• 5:29:03
  the sources of the Arkansas River, one of the great tributaries of the Missouri.
• 5:29:10
  At half past twelve, the travelers caught sight for an instant of Fort
• 5:29:14
  Halleck, which commands that section, and in a few more hours the rocky
• 5:29:18
  mountains were crossed. There was reason to hope, then that no accident would
• 5:29:22
  mark the journey through this difficult country. The snow had ceased falling, and
• 5:29:27
  the air became crisp and cold. Large birds, frightened by the locomotive,
• 5:29:33
  rose and flew off in the distance. No wild beast appeared on the plain.
• 5:29:37
  It was a desert in its vast nakedness. After a comfortable breakfast served
• 5:29:44
  in the car, mister Fogg and his partners had just resumed whist when a
• 5:29:48
  violent whistling was heard and the train stopped. Passepartout put his head out of
• 5:29:53
  the door, but saw nothing to cause the delay. No station was in
• 5:29:59
  view. Aouda and Fix feared that mister Fogg might take it into his head
• 5:30:03
  to get out, but that gentleman contented himself with saying to his servant,
• 5:30:08
  see what is the matter? Passepartout rushed out of the car. Thirty or
• 5:30:14
  forty passengers had already descended, amongst them Colonel stamp Proctor. The train had
• 5:30:21
  stopped before a red signal, which blocked the way. The engineer and conductor
• 5:30:25
  were talking excitedly with the signalman, whom the station master at Medicinebau, the
• 5:30:30
  next stopping place, had sent on before the passengers drew round and took part
• 5:30:36
  in the discussion, in which Colonel Proctor, with his insolent manner, was
• 5:30:40
  conspicuous. Pass partou joining the group, heard the signal man say, no,
• 5:30:47
  you can't pass. The bridge at Medicinembau is shaky and would not bear
• 5:30:51
  the weight of the train. This was a suspension bridge thrown over some rapids
• 5:30:56
  about a mile from the place where they now were. According to the signal
• 5:31:00
  man, it was in a ruinous condition, several of the iron wires being
• 5:31:04
  broken, and it was impossible to risk the passage. He did not at
• 5:31:10
  any way exaggerate the condition of the bridge. It may be taken for granted
• 5:31:15
  that rash, as the Americans usually are when they are prudent, there is
• 5:31:19
  good reason for it. Passepartout, not daring to apprise his master of what
• 5:31:26
  he heard, listened with set teeth immovable as a statue. Humph cried Colonel
• 5:31:33
  Proctor. But we are not going to stay here, I imagine, and
• 5:31:37
  take root in the snow. Colonel replied the conductor. We have telegraphed to
• 5:31:42
  Omaha for a train, but it is not likely that it will reach Medicine
• 5:31:47
  Bow in less than six hours. Six hours, cried Passepartout, certainly,
• 5:31:55
  returned the conductor. Besides, it will take us as long as that to
• 5:31:59
  reach Medicine Bow on foot. But it is only a mile from here,
• 5:32:03
  said one of the passengers. Yes, but it's on the other side of
• 5:32:08
  the river. And can't we cross that in a boat, asked the colonel.
• 5:32:15
  That's impossible. The creek is swelled by the rains. It is a
• 5:32:18
  rapid and we shall have to make a circuit of ten miles to the north
• 5:32:22
  to find a ford. The colonel launched a volley of oaths, denouncing the
• 5:32:27
  railway company and the conductor, and Passepartout, who was furious, was not
• 5:32:33
  disinclined to make common cause with him. Here was an obstacle, indeed,
• 5:32:37
  which all his master's bank notes could not remove. There was a general disappointment
• 5:32:44
  among the passengers, who, without reckoning the delay, saw themselves compelled to
• 5:32:48
  trudge fifteen miles over a plain covered with snow. They grumbled and protested,
• 5:32:55
  and would certainly have thus attracted Phileas Fogg's attention if he had not been completely
• 5:33:00
  absorbed in his game. Passepartou found that he could not avoid telling his master
• 5:33:04
  what had occurred, and with hanging ahead, he was turning towards the car
• 5:33:10
  when the engineer, a true Yankee named Forster, called out, gentlemen,
• 5:33:15
  perhaps there is a way after all to get over on the bridge, asked
• 5:33:22
  the passenger on the bridge with our train. With our train, pass par
• 5:33:30
  two stopped short and eagerly listened to the engineer. But the bridge is unsafe,
• 5:33:37
  urged the conductor. No matter, replied Forster. I think that by
• 5:33:41
  putting on the very highest speed we might have a chance of getting over.
• 5:33:45
  The devil, muttered passepartout. But a number of the passengers were at once
• 5:33:51
  attracted by the engineer's proposal, and Colonel Proctor was especially delighted and found the
• 5:33:56
  plan a very feasible one. He told stories about engineers leaping their trains over
• 5:34:03
  rivers without bridges by putting on full steam, and many of those present avowed
• 5:34:07
  themselves of the engineer's mind, we have fifty chances out of a hundred of
• 5:34:14
  getting over, said one eighty ninety Passpar two was astounded, and, though
• 5:34:21
  ready to attempt anything to get over medicine, Creek thought the experiment proposed a
• 5:34:26
  little too American. Besides, thought he there's a still more simple way,
• 5:34:32
  and it does not even occur to any of these people. Sir said he
• 5:34:37
  aloud to one of the passengers, this is the engineer's plan. Seems to
• 5:34:41
  me a little dangerous, but eighty chances, replied the passenger, turning his
• 5:34:48
  back on him. I know it, said Passepartoo, turning to another passenger.
• 5:34:52
  But a simple idea, ideas are of no use, returned the American,
• 5:34:59
  shrugging his shoulders. As the engineer assures us that we can pass,
• 5:35:04
  doubtless urged passpar two. We can pass, but perhaps it would be more
• 5:35:10
  prudent. What prudent? Cried Colonel Proctor, whom this word seemed to excite
• 5:35:17
  prodigiously at full speed? Don't you see? At full speed? I know
• 5:35:22
  I see, repeated passepartout. But it would be, if not more prudent,
• 5:35:29
  since that word displeases you, at least more natural. Who what what's
• 5:35:36
  the matter with this fellow? Cried several The poor fellow did not know to
• 5:35:40
  whom to address himself. Are you afraid, asked Colonel Proctor. I afraid
• 5:35:48
  very well. I will show these people that a Frenchman can be as American
• 5:35:52
  as they all aboard, cried the conductor. Yes all aboard, repeated passpart
• 5:36:00
  too, and immediately. But they can't prevent me from thinking that it would
• 5:36:03
  be more natural for us to cross the bridge on foot and let the train
• 5:36:07
  come after. But no one heard the sage reflection, nor would anyone have
• 5:36:12
  acknowledged its justice. The passengers resumed their places in the cars. Passepartout took
• 5:36:18
  his seat without telling what it passed. The whist players were quite absorbed in
• 5:36:23
  their game. The locomotive whistled vigorously. The engineer, reversing the steam,
• 5:36:30
  backed the train for nearly a mile, retiring like a jumper in order to
• 5:36:34
  take a longer leap. Then, with another whistle, he began to move
• 5:36:38
  forward. The train increased its speed, and soon its rapidity became frightful.
• 5:36:45
  A prolonged screech issued from their locomotive. The piston worked up and down twenty
• 5:36:49
  strokes to the second. They perceived that the whole train rushing on at the
• 5:36:55
  rate of a hundred miles an hour, hardly bore upon the rails at all,
• 5:37:00
  and they passed over. It was like a flash. No one saw
• 5:37:03
  the bridge. The train leaped, so to speak, from one bank to
• 5:37:07
  the other, and the engineer could not stop it until it had gone five
• 5:37:11
  miles beyond the station. But scarcely had the train passed the river when the
• 5:37:17
  bridge completely ruined, fell with a crash into the rapids of Medicine Bow.
• 5:37:23
  End of chapter Chapter twenty nine, in which certain incidents are narrated which were
• 5:37:30
  only to be met with on American railroads. The train pursued its course that
• 5:37:40
  evening without interruption, passing Fort Saunders, crossing Cheyenne Pass, and reaching Evans
• 5:37:45
  Pass. The road here attained the highest elevation of the journey, eight thousand
• 5:37:52
  and ninety two feet above the level of the sea. The travelers had now
• 5:37:56
  only to descend to the Atlantic by limitless plains leveled by nature. A branch
• 5:38:00
  of the Grand Trunk led off southward to Denver, the capital of Colorado.
• 5:38:06
  The country round about is rich in gold and silver, and more than fifty
• 5:38:10
  thousand inhabitants are already settled there. Thirteen hundred and eighty two miles had been
• 5:38:15
  passed over from San Francisco in three days and three nights. Four days and
• 5:38:21
  four nights more would probably bring them to New York phileas Fogg was not as
• 5:38:26
  yet behind hand. During the night camp Wallbach was passed on the left.
• 5:38:32
  Lodge Pole Creek ran parallel with the road, marking the boundary between the territories
• 5:38:37
  of Wyoming and Colorado. They entered Nebraska at eleven, passed near Sedgwick,
• 5:38:42
  and touched at Jewlesburg on the southern branch of the Platte River. It was
• 5:38:48
  here that the Union Pacific Railroad was inaugurated on the twenty third of October eighteen
• 5:38:52
  sixty seven by the Chief Engineer, General Dodge. Two powerful locomotives carrying nine
• 5:39:00
  cars of invited guests, among whom were Thomas C. Durant, vice President
• 5:39:06
  of the Road, stopped at this point. Cheers were given, The Sioux
• 5:39:11
  and Pawnees performed an imitation Indian battle. Fireworks were let off, and the
• 5:39:15
  first number of the railway Pioneer was printed by a press brought on the train.
• 5:39:22
  Thus was celebrated the inauguration of this great railroad. A mighty instrument of
• 5:39:26
  progress and civilization, thrown across the desert and destined to link together cities and
• 5:39:32
  towns which do not yet exist. The whistle of the locomotive, more powerful
• 5:39:37
  than Amphion's lyre, was about to bid them rise from American soil. Fort
• 5:39:45
  McPherson was left behind at eight in the morning, and three hundred and fifty
• 5:39:48
  seven miles had yet to be traversed before reaching Omaha. The road followed the
• 5:39:53
  capricious windings of the southern branch of the Platte River on its left bank.
• 5:39:59
  At nine, the train stopped at the important town of North Platte, built
• 5:40:03
  between the two arms of the river, which rejoin each other around it and
• 5:40:07
  form a single artery, a large tributary whose waters empty into the Missouri.
• 5:40:12
  A little above Omaha, the one hundred and first meridian was passed. Mister
• 5:40:19
  Fogg and his partners had resumed their game. No one, not even the
• 5:40:22
  dummy, complained of the length of the trip. Vix had begun by winning
• 5:40:27
  several guineas, which he seemed likely to lose, but he showed himself a
• 5:40:32
  not less eager whist player than mister Fogg. During the morning, Chance distinctly
• 5:40:37
  favored that gentleman. Trumps and honors were showered upon his hands. Once having
• 5:40:44
  resolved on a bold stroke, he was on the point of playing a spade
• 5:40:47
  when a voice behind him said I should play a diamond. Mister Fogg,
• 5:40:53
  Aouda and Fix raised their heads and beheld Colonel Proctor. Stamp Proctor and Phileas
• 5:41:02
  Fogg recognized each other at once. Ah it's you, is it, englishman,
• 5:41:07
  cried the colonel. It's you who are going to play a spade?
• 5:41:12
  And who plays it? Replied Phileas Fogg, coolly, throwing down the ten
• 5:41:18
  of spades. Well it pleases me to have it. Diamonds, replied Colonel
• 5:41:23
  Proctor in an insolent tone. He made a movement as if to seize the
• 5:41:27
  card which had just been played, adding you don't understand anything about whist Perhaps
• 5:41:34
  I do as well as another, said Phileas Fogg, rising, you have
• 5:41:41
  only to try. Son of John Bull, replied the Colonel. I WOULDA
• 5:41:48
  turned pale and her blood ran cold. She seized mister Fogg's arm and gently
• 5:41:52
  pulled him back. Passepartout was ready to pounce upon the American, who was
• 5:41:56
  staring insolently at his opponent. But Fix got up and, going to Colonel
• 5:42:02
  Proctor, said, you forget that it is I with whom you have to
• 5:42:06
  deal, sir, For it was I whom you not only insulted but struck.
• 5:42:11
  Mister Fix, said mister Fogg, pardon me, but this affair is
• 5:42:17
  mine and mine only. The Colonel has again insulted me by insisting that I
• 5:42:22
  should not play a spade, and he shall give me satisfaction for it when
• 5:42:27
  and where you will, replied the American, and with whatever weapon you choose.
• 5:42:34
  Ouda in vain attempted to retain mister Fogg, as vainly did the detective
• 5:42:40
  endeavor to make the quarrel his past. Par Two wished to throw the colonel
• 5:42:44
  out of the window, but a sign from his master checked him. Phileas
• 5:42:48
  Fogg left the car and the American followed him upon the platform, Sir said
• 5:42:55
  mister Fogg to his adversary, I am in a great hurry to get back
• 5:42:59
  to Europe, and any delay whatever will be greatly to my disadvantage. Well,
• 5:43:03
  what's that to me, replied Colonel Proctor. Sir, said mister Fogg
• 5:43:11
  very politely. After our meeting at San Francisco, I determined to return to
• 5:43:15
  America and find you as soon as I had completed the business which called me
• 5:43:21
  to England. Really, will you appoint a meeting for six months? Hence
• 5:43:27
  why not ten years? Hans? I say six months, returned Phileas Fogg,
• 5:43:36
  and I shall be at the place of meeting promptly. All this as
• 5:43:41
  an evasion, cried Stamp Proctor. Now or never? Very good. You
• 5:43:47
  are going to New York, No to Chicago, No to Omaha. What
• 5:43:55
  difference is it to you? Do you know plum Creek? No, replied
• 5:44:00
  mister Fogg. It's the next station. The train will be there in an
• 5:44:04
  hour and will stop there ten minutes. In ten minutes, several revolver shots
• 5:44:10
  could be exchanged. Very well, said mister Fogg. I will stop at
• 5:44:15
  plum Creek, and I guess you'll stay there too, added the American insolently.
• 5:44:23
  Who knows, replied mister Fogg. Returning to the car as coolly as
• 5:44:29
  usual, he began to reassure Aouda, telling her that blusterers were never to
• 5:44:33
  be feared, and begged Fix to be his second at the approaching duel,
• 5:44:37
  a request which the detective could not refuse. Mister Fogg resumed the interrupted game
• 5:44:42
  with perfect calmness. At eleven o'clock, the locomotive's whistle announced that they were
• 5:44:48
  approaching Plum Creek's station. Mister Fogg rose, and, followed by Fix,
• 5:44:53
  went out upon the platform. Passepartout accompanied him, carrying a pair of revolvers.
• 5:45:00
  Aouda remained in the car as pale as death. The door of the
• 5:45:04
  next car opened and Colonel Proctor appeared on the platform, attended by a Yankee
• 5:45:10
  of his own stamp as his second. But just as the combatants were about
• 5:45:14
  to step from the train, the conductor hurried up and shouted, you can't
• 5:45:18
  get off, gentlemen. Why not, asked the colonel. We are twenty
• 5:45:23
  minutes late, and we shall not stop. But I am going to fight
• 5:45:27
  a duel with this gentleman. I'm sorry, said the conductor, but we
• 5:45:33
  shall be off at once. There's the bell ringing now the train started.
• 5:45:38
  I'm really very sorry, gentlemen, said the conductor. Under any other circumstances,
• 5:45:44
  I should have been happy to oblige you. But after all, as
• 5:45:48
  you have not had time to fight here, why not fight as we go
• 5:45:51
  along? That wouldn't be convenient, perhaps for this gentleman, said the colonel
• 5:45:56
  in a jeering tone. It would be perfectly so, replied Phileas Fogg.
• 5:46:04
  Well we are really in America, thought Passepartou, And the conductor is a
• 5:46:10
  gentleman of the first daughter. So muttering, he followed his master. The
• 5:46:15
  two combatants their seconds, and the conductor passed through the cars to the rear
• 5:46:19
  of the train. The last car was only occupied by a dozen passengers,
• 5:46:23
  whom the conductor politely asked if they would not be so kind as to leave
• 5:46:29
  it vacant for a few moments, as two gentlemen had an affair of honor
• 5:46:33
  to settle. The passengers granted the request with alacrity, and straightway disappeared on
• 5:46:38
  the platform. The car, which was some fifty feet long, was very
• 5:46:44
  convenient for their purpose. The adversaries might march on each other in the aisle
• 5:46:48
  and fire at their ease. Never was dual more easily arranged. Mister Fogg
• 5:46:55
  and Colonel Proctor, each provided with two six barreled revolvers, entered the car.
• 5:47:00
  The seconds remaining outside shut them in. They were to begin firing at
• 5:47:06
  the first whistle of the locomotive. After an interval of two minutes, what
• 5:47:11
  remained of the two gentlemen would be taken from the car. Nothing could be
• 5:47:15
  more simple. Indeed, it was all so simple that Fix and passepartout felt
• 5:47:19
  their hearts beating as if they would crack. They were listening for the whistle
• 5:47:25
  agreed upon, when suddenly savage cries resounded in the air, accompanied by reports
• 5:47:30
  which certainly did not issue from the car where the duelists were. The reports
• 5:47:36
  continued in front and the whole length of the train. Cries of terror proceeded
• 5:47:41
  from the interior of the cars. Colonel Proctor and mister Fogg, revolvers in
• 5:47:47
  hand, hastily quitted their prison and rushed forward, where the noise was most
• 5:47:51
  clamorous. They then perceived that the train was attacked by a band of Sioux.
• 5:47:56
  This was not the first attempt of these daring Indians, for more more
• 5:48:00
  than once they had waylaid trains on the road. A hundred of them had,
• 5:48:03
  according to their habit, jumped upon the steps without stopping the train with
• 5:48:08
  the ease of a clown mounting a horse at full gallop. The Sioux were
• 5:48:12
  armed with guns, from which came the reports to which the passengers, who
• 5:48:18
  were almost all armed, responded by revolver shots. The Indians had first mounted
• 5:48:22
  the engine and half stunned the engineer and stoker with blows from their muskets.
• 5:48:27
  A Sioux chief, wishing to stop the train, but not knowing how to
• 5:48:32
  work the regulator had opened wide instead of closing the steam valve, and the
• 5:48:37
  locomotive was plunging forward with terrific velocity. The Sioux had at the same time
• 5:48:42
  invaded the cars, skipping like enraged monkeys over the roofs, thrusting open the
• 5:48:48
  doors, and fighting hand to hand with the passengers. Penetrating the baggage car,
• 5:48:52
  they pillaged it, throwing the trunks out of the train. The cries
• 5:48:57
  and shots were constant. The travelers defended themselves bravely. Some of the cars
• 5:49:03
  were barricaded and sustained a siege, like moving forts, carried along at a
• 5:49:07
  speed of one hundred miles an hour. I would have behaved courageously from the
• 5:49:12
  first. She defended herself like a true heroine, with a revolver, which
• 5:49:18
  she shot through the broken windows whenever a savage made his appearance. Twenty Sioux
• 5:49:22
  had fallen mortally wounded to the ground, and the wheels crushed those who fell
• 5:49:26
  upon the rails as if they had been worms. Several passengers shot or stunned,
• 5:49:33
  lay on the seats. It was necessary to put an end to the
• 5:49:37
  struggle, which had lasted for ten minutes, and which would result in the
• 5:49:41
  triumph of the Sioux if the train was not stopped. Fort Kearney station,
• 5:49:45
  where there was a garrison, was only two miles distant, but that once
• 5:49:51
  passed, the Sioux would be masters of the train between Fort Kearney and the
• 5:49:55
  station beyond. The conductor was fighting beside mister Fogg when he was shot and
• 5:50:00
  fell at the same moment. He cried, unless the train is stopped in
• 5:50:06
  five minutes, we are lost. It shall be stopped, said Phileas Fogg,
• 5:50:11
  preparing to rush from the car. Stay, Monsieur cried, passepartout,
• 5:50:17
  I will go. Mister Fogg had not time to stop. The brave fellow,
• 5:50:22
  who opening a door unperceived by the Indians, succeeded in slipping under the
• 5:50:26
  car, and while the struggle continued in the ball's whiz to cross each other
• 5:50:32
  over his head. He made use of his old acrobatic experience, and with
• 5:50:36
  amazing agility, worked his way under the cars, holding on to the chains,
• 5:50:41
  aiding himself by the brakes and the edges of the sashes, creeping from
• 5:50:45
  one car to another with marvelous skill, and thus gaining the forward end of
• 5:50:51
  the train. There suspended by one hand between the baggage car and the tender.
• 5:50:56
  With the other he loosened the safety chains, but owing to the traction,
• 5:51:00
  he would never have succeeded in unscrewing the yoking bar. Had not a
• 5:51:06
  violent concussion jolded this bar out. The train, now detached from the engine,
• 5:51:11
  remained a little behind, whilst the locomotive rushed forward with increased speed,
• 5:51:18
  carried on by the force already acquired. The trains still moved for several minutes,
• 5:51:22
  but the brakes were worked, and at last they stopped less than a
• 5:51:26
  hundred feet from Kearney station. The soldiers of the fort, attracted by the
• 5:51:32
  shots, hurried up. The Sioux had not expected them, and decamped in
• 5:51:36
  a body before the train entirely stopped. But when the passengers counted each other
• 5:51:41
  on the station platform, several were found missing, among others the courageous Frenchman
• 5:51:47
  whose devotion had just saved them. End of chapter chapter thirty, in which
• 5:51:55
  Phileas Fogg simply does his duty. Three passengers, including Passepartout, had disappeared.
• 5:52:03
  Had they been killed in the struggle. Were they taken prisoners by the
• 5:52:07
  Sioux? It was impossible to tell. There were many wounded, but none
• 5:52:12
  mortally. Colonel Proctor was one of the most seriously hurt. He had fought
• 5:52:17
  bravely and a ball had entered his groin. He was carried into the station
• 5:52:22
  with the other wounded passengers to receive such attention as could be of avail.
• 5:52:26
  Aouda was safe, and Phileas Fogg, who had been in the thickest of
• 5:52:30
  the fight, had not received a scratch. Fix was slightly wounded in the
• 5:52:34
  arm, but Passepartout was not to be found, and tears coursed down Aouda's
• 5:52:40
  cheeks. All the passengers had got out of the train, the wheels of
• 5:52:45
  which were stained with blood from the tires and spokes hung ragged pieces of flesh
• 5:52:51
  as far as the eye could reach. On the white plain, behind,
• 5:52:53
  red trails were visible. The last Sioux were disappearing in the south along the
• 5:52:59
  banks of the Republican River. Mister Fogg, with folded arms, remained motionless.
• 5:53:04
  He had a serious decision to make. Aouda, standing near him,
• 5:53:08
  looked at him without speaking, and he understood her look. If his servant
• 5:53:15
  was a prisoner, ought he not to risk everything to rescue him from the
• 5:53:18
  Indians. I will find him living or dead, said he quietly to Aouda.
• 5:53:25
  Ah, mister mister Fogg cried, she clasping his hands and covering them
• 5:53:30
  with tears. Living, added mister Fogg, if we do not lose a
• 5:53:36
  moment, Phileas Fogg, by this resolution, inevitably sacrificed himself. He pronounced
• 5:53:42
  his own doom. The delay of a single day would make him lose the
• 5:53:47
  steamer at New York, and his bet would be certainly lost. But as
• 5:53:52
  he thought it is my duty, he did not hesitate. The commanding officer
• 5:53:56
  of Fort Kearney was there. A hundred of his soldiers had placed themselves in
• 5:54:00
  a position to defend the station should the Sioux attack it, Sir, said
• 5:54:07
  mister Fogg to the captain. Three passengers have disappeared dead, asked the captain,
• 5:54:14
  dead or prisoners. That is the uncertainty which must be solved. Do
• 5:54:18
  you propose to pursue the Sioux. That's a serious thing to do, sir,
• 5:54:23
  returned the captain. These Indians may retreat beyond the Arkansas, and I
• 5:54:29
  cannot leave the fort unprotected. The lives of three men are in question,
• 5:54:33
  sir, said Phileas Fogg, doubtless. But can I risk the lives of
• 5:54:40
  fifty men to say three. I don't know whether you can, sir,
• 5:54:44
  but you ought to do so. Nobody here returned. The other has a
• 5:54:49
  right to teach me my duty very well, said mister Fogg coldly. I
• 5:54:56
  will go alone, you, sir, cried, coming up, You go
• 5:55:02
  alone in pursuit of the Indians. Would you have me leave this poor fellow
• 5:55:06
  to perish him to whom every one present owes his life. I shall go.
• 5:55:12
  No, sir, you shall not go alone, cried the captain,
• 5:55:15
  touched in spite of himself. No, you are a brave man. Thirty
• 5:55:21
  volunteers, he added, turning to the soldiers. The whole company started forward
• 5:55:26
  at once. The captain had only to pick his men. Thirty were chosen,
• 5:55:32
  and an old sergeant placed at their head. Thanks captain, said mister
• 5:55:37
  Fogg. Would you let me go with you? Asked fix do as you
• 5:55:42
  please, sir, but if you wish to do me a favor. You
• 5:55:45
  will remain with Aouda in case anything should happen to me, a sudden pallor
• 5:55:52
  overspread the detective's face, separate himself from the man whom he had so persistently
• 5:55:57
  followed step by step, Leave him to wander about in this desert. Fix
• 5:56:03
  gazed attentively at mister Fogg, and despite his suspicions and of the struggle which
• 5:56:08
  was going on within him, he lowered his eyes before that Calm and frank,
• 5:56:12
  look, I will stay, said he. A few moments after,
• 5:56:19
  mister Fogg pressed the young woman's hand, and, having confided to her his
• 5:56:23
  precious carpet bag, went off with the sergeant and his little squad. But
• 5:56:30
  before going he had said to the soldiers, my friends, I will divide
• 5:56:33
  five thousand dollars among you if we save the prisoners. It was then a
• 5:56:40
  little past noon Aouda retired to a waiting room, and there she waited alone,
• 5:56:45
  thinking of the simple and noble generosity, the tranquil courage of Phileas Fogg.
• 5:56:52
  He had sacrificed his fortune and was now risking his life, all without
• 5:56:56
  hesitation from duty. In silence, Fix did not have the same thoughts,
• 5:57:03
  and could scarcely conceal his agitation. He walked feverishly up and down the platform,
• 5:57:08
  but soon resumed his outward composure. He now saw the folly of which
• 5:57:14
  he had been guilty in letting Fogg go alone. What this man, whom
• 5:57:18
  he had just followed around the world, was permitted now to separate himself from
• 5:57:23
  him. He began to accuse and abuse himself, and, as if he
• 5:57:27
  were director of police, administered to himself a sound lecture for his greenness.
• 5:57:33
  I have been an idiot, he thought, and this man will see it.
• 5:57:38
  He has gone and won't come back. But how is it that I
• 5:57:42
  fix who have in my pocket a warrant for his arrest? Had been so
• 5:57:48
  fascinated by him? Decidedly, I am nothing but an ass so reasoned the
• 5:57:55
  detective. While the hours crept by all too slowly, he did not know
• 5:57:59
  what to do. Sometimes he was tempted to tell Aouda all, but he
• 5:58:03
  could not doubt how the young woman would receive his confidences. What course should
• 5:58:08
  he take? He thought of pursuing Fog across the vast white plains. It
• 5:58:12
  did not seem impossible that he might overtake him. Footsteps were easily printed on
• 5:58:18
  the snow, but soon under a new sheet, every imprint would be effaced.
• 5:58:25
  Fix became discouraged. He felt a sort of insurmountable longing to abandon the
• 5:58:30
  game altogether. He could now leave Fort Kearney Station and pursue his journey homeward
• 5:58:34
  in peace. Towards two o'clock in the afternoon, while it was snowing hard,
• 5:58:41
  long whistles were heard approaching from the east, a great shadow, preceded
• 5:58:45
  by a wild light slowly advanced, appearing still larger through the mist, which
• 5:58:51
  gave it a fantastic aspect. No train was expected from the east, neither
• 5:58:56
  had there been time for the sucker asked for by Telegus to arrive. The
• 5:59:00
  train from Omaha to San Francisco was not due till the next day. The
• 5:59:06
  mystery was soon explained. The locomotive, which was slowly approaching with deafening whistles,
• 5:59:11
  was that which, having been detached from the train, had continued its
• 5:59:15
  route with such terrific rapidity, carrying off the unconscious engineer in Stoker. It
• 5:59:22
  had run several miles when the fire becoming low for want of fuel, the
• 5:59:27
  steam had slackened and it had finally stopped an hour after, some twenty miles
• 5:59:33
  beyond Fort Kearney. Neither the engineer nor the stoker was dead, and after
• 5:59:38
  remaining for some time in their swoon, had come to themselves. The train
• 5:59:44
  had then stopped. The engineer, when he found himself in the desert and
• 5:59:48
  the locomotive without cars, understood what had happened. He could not imagine how
• 5:59:53
  the locomotive had become separated from the train, but he did not doubt that
• 5:59:57
  the train left behind was in distress. He did not hesitate what to do.
• 6:00:03
  It would be prudent to continue on to Omaha, for it would be
• 6:00:07
  dangerous to return to the train, which the Indians might still be engaged in
• 6:00:11
  pillaging. Nevertheless, he began to rebuild the fire in the furnace. The
• 6:00:18
  pressure again mounted, and the engineer returned, running backwards to Fort Kearney.
• 6:00:22
  This it was which was whistling in the mist. The travelers were glad to
• 6:00:27
  see the locomotive resume its place at the head of the train. They could
• 6:00:32
  now continue the journey so terribly interrupted. Aouda, on seeing the locomotive come
• 6:00:37
  up, hurried out of the station and asked the conductor, are you going
• 6:00:42
  to start at once? Madam? But the prisoners, our unfortunate fellow travelers.
• 6:00:49
  I cannot interrupt the trip, replied the conductor. We are already three
• 6:00:55
  hours behind time. And when will another train pass here from San Francisco tomorrow
• 6:01:02
  evening? Madam? Tomorrow evening. But then it will be too late.
• 6:01:07
  We must wait. It is impossible, responded the conductor. If you wish
• 6:01:12
  to go, please get in. I will not go, said aouda Fix
• 6:01:21
  had heard this conversation a little while before, when there was no prospect of
• 6:01:25
  proceeding on the journey, he had made up his mind to leave Fort Kearney.
• 6:01:30
  But now that the train was there, ready to start, and he
• 6:01:33
  had only to take his seat in the car, an irresistible influence held him
• 6:01:37
  back. The station platform burned his feet, and he could not stir.
• 6:01:42
  The conflict in his mind began again. Anger and failure stifled him. He
• 6:01:48
  wished to struggle on to the end. Meanwhile, the passengers and some of
• 6:01:52
  the wounded, among them Colonel Proctor, whose injuries were serious, had taken
• 6:01:57
  their places in the train. The buzzing of the overheated boiler was heard,
• 6:02:03
  and the steam was escaping from the valves. The engineer whistled. The train
• 6:02:07
  started and soon disappeared, mingling its white smoke with the eddies of the densely
• 6:02:12
  falling snow. The detective had remained behind. Several hours passed. The weather
• 6:02:21
  was dismal and was very cold. Fix sat motionless on a bench at the
• 6:02:26
  station. He might have been thought asleep. Aouda, despite the storm,
• 6:02:30
  kept coming out of the waiting room, going to the end of the platform
• 6:02:34
  and peering through the tempest of snow, as if to pierce the mist that
• 6:02:38
  narrowed the horizon around her, and to hear, if possible, some welcome
• 6:02:42
  sound. She heard and saw nothing, then she would return, chilled through,
• 6:02:49
  to issue out again after the lapse of a few moments, but always
• 6:02:53
  in vain. Evening came and the little man had not returned. Where could
• 6:03:00
  they be? Had they found the Indians? And were they having a conflict
• 6:03:06
  with them? Or were they still wandering amid the mist. The commander of
• 6:03:11
  the fort was anxious, though he tried to conceal his apprehensions. As night
• 6:03:15
  approached, the snow fell as plentifully, but it became intensely cold. Absolute
• 6:03:21
  silence rested on the plains. Neither flight of bird nor passing of beast troubled
• 6:03:26
  the perfect calm. Throughout the night, Aouda full of sad forebodings, her
• 6:03:33
  heart stifled with anguish, wandered about on the verge of the plains. Her
• 6:03:38
  imagination carried her far off and showed her innumerable dangers. What she suffered through
• 6:03:45
  the long hours it would be impossible to describe. Fix remained stationary in the
• 6:03:52
  same place, but did not sleep. Once a man approached and spoke to
• 6:03:56
  him, and the detective merely replied by shaking his head. Thus the night
• 6:04:03
  passed. At dawn, the half extinguished disc of the sun rose above a
• 6:04:07
  misty horizon, but it was now possible to recognized objects two miles off Phileas
• 6:04:12
  Fogg and the squad had gone southward. In the south, all was still
• 6:04:18
  vacancy. It was then seven o'clock. The captain, who was really alarmed,
• 6:04:23
  did not know what course to take. Should he send another detachment to
• 6:04:29
  the rescue of the first, should he sacrifice more men with so few chances
• 6:04:33
  of saving those already sacrificed. His hesitation did not last long, however,
• 6:04:40
  Calling one of his lieutenants, he was on the point of ordering a reconnaissance
• 6:04:44
  when gunshots were heard. Was it a signal? The soldiers rushed out of
• 6:04:48
  the fort, and half a mile off they perceived a little band returning in
• 6:04:52
  good order. Mister Fogg was marching at their head, and just behind him
• 6:04:57
  were Passepartout and the other two travelers, rescued from the Sioux. They had
• 6:05:03
  met and fought the Indians ten miles south of Fort Kearney. Shortly before the
• 6:05:08
  detachment arrived, Passepartout and his companions had begun to struggle with their captors,
• 6:05:14
  three of which the Frenchman had felled with his fists. When his master and
• 6:05:18
  the soldiers hastened up to their relief, all were welcomed with joyful cries.
• 6:05:23
  Phileas Fogg distributed the reward he had promised to the soldiers, while Passepartout,
• 6:05:29
  not without reason, muttered to himself, it must certainly be confessed that I
• 6:05:34
  cost my master dear fix without saying a word. Looked at mister Fogg,
• 6:05:41
  and it would have been difficult to analyze the thoughts which struggled within him.
• 6:05:47
  As for Aouda, she took her protector's hand and pressed it in her own
• 6:05:52
  too much moved to speak. Meanwhile, Passepartout was looking about for the train.
• 6:05:57
  He thought he should find it there, ready to start for Omaha,
• 6:06:00
  and he hoped that the time loss might be regained the train. The train
• 6:06:06
  cried, he gone, replied, Fix, and when does the next train
• 6:06:12
  pass here, said Phileas Fogg, Not till this evening? Ah returned the
• 6:06:19
  impassable gentleman quietly. End of chapter chapter thirty one, in which Fixed the
• 6:06:29
  detective considerably furthers the interests of Phileas Fogg. Phileas Fogg found himself twenty hours
• 6:06:38
  behind time Passpartu. The involuntary cause of this delay was desperate he had ruined
• 6:06:45
  his master. At this moment, the detective approached mister Fogg, and,
• 6:06:49
  looking him intently in the face, said, seriously, sir, are you
• 6:06:55
  in great haste? Quite seriously, I have a purpose asking resumed fix.
• 6:07:02
  Is it absolutely necessary that you should be in New York on the eleventh before
• 6:07:07
  nine o'clock in the evening, the time that the steamer leaves for Liverpool.
• 6:07:11
  It is absolutely necessary, And if your journey had not been interrupted by these
• 6:07:18
  Indians, you would have reached New York on the morning of the eleventh.
• 6:07:22
  Yes, with eleven hours despair before the steamer left Good. You are therefore
• 6:07:29
  twenty hours behind twelve from twenty leaves eight you must regain eight hours. Do
• 6:07:34
  you wish to try to do so on foot? Asked mister Fogg. No,
• 6:07:41
  on a sledge, replied, Fix, on a sledge with sails.
• 6:07:45
  A man has proposed such a method to me. It was the man who
• 6:07:49
  had spoken to Fix during the night, and whose offer he had refused.
• 6:07:55
  Phileas Fogg did not reply at once, but Fix, having pointed out the
• 6:07:59
  man who was walking up and down in front of the station, mister Fogg
• 6:08:03
  went up to him. An instant after mister Fogg and the American, whose
• 6:08:07
  name was Mudge, entered a hut built just below the fort. There mister
• 6:08:12
  Fogg examined a curious vehicle, a kind of frame on two long beams,
• 6:08:18
  a little raised in front, like the runners of a sledge, and upon
• 6:08:22
  which there was room for five or six persons. A high mast was fixed
• 6:08:26
  on the frame, held firmly by metallic lashings, to which was attached to
• 6:08:30
  large brigandine sail. This mast held an iron stay upon which to hoist a
• 6:08:36
  jibsail behind a sort of rudder served to guide the vehicle. It was,
• 6:08:41
  in short, a sledge rigged like a sloop. During the winter, when
• 6:08:45
  the trains are blocked up by the snow, these sledges make extremely rapid journeys
• 6:08:51
  across the frozen plains from one station to another. Provided with more sails than
• 6:08:56
  a cutter, and with the wind behind them, they slipped over the service
• 6:09:00
  of the prairies with a speed equal, if not superior, to that of
• 6:09:03
  the express trains. Mister Fogg readily made a bargain with the owner of this
• 6:09:07
  land craft. The wind was favorable, being fresh and blowing from the west.
• 6:09:14
  The snow had hardened, and Mudge was very confident of being able to
• 6:09:18
  transport mister Fogg in a few hours to Omaha. Thence, the trains eastward
• 6:09:22
  run frequently to Chicago and New York. It was not impossible that the lost
• 6:09:26
  time might yet be recovered, and such an opportunity was not to be rejected.
• 6:09:33
  Not wishing to expose Aouda to the discomforts of traveling in the open air,
• 6:09:37
  mister Fogg proposed to leave her with passepartout at Fort Kearney. The servant,
• 6:09:41
  taking upon himself to escort her to Europe by a better route and under
• 6:09:47
  more favorable conditions. But Aouda refused to separate from mister Fogg, and Passepartout
• 6:09:52
  was delighted with her decision, for nothing could induce him to leave his master.
• 6:09:57
  While Fix was with him, it would be difficult to guess the detective's
• 6:10:03
  thoughts. Was this conviction shaken by Phileas Fogg's return, or did he still
• 6:10:07
  regard him as an exceedingly shrewd rascal who, his journey round the world completed,
• 6:10:14
  would think himself absolutely safe in England. Perhaps Fix's opinion of Phileas Fogg
• 6:10:19
  was somewhat modified, but it was nevertheless resolved to do his duty and to
• 6:10:26
  hasten the return of the whole party to England as much as possible. At
• 6:10:30
  eight o'clock the sledge was ready to start. The passengers took their places on
• 6:10:34
  it and wrapped themselves up closely in their traveling cloaks. The two great sails
• 6:10:41
  were hoisted, and under the pressure of the wind, the sledge slid over
• 6:10:45
  the hardened snow with a velocity of forty miles an hour. The distance between
• 6:10:51
  Fort Kearney and Omaha, as the birds fly, is at most two hundred
• 6:10:55
  miles. If the wind held a good the distance might be traversed in five
• 6:11:00
  hours. If no accident happened, the sledge might reach Omaha by one o'clock.
• 6:11:06
  What a journey. The travelers, huddled close together, could not speak
• 6:11:11
  for the cold, intensified by the rapidity of which they were going. The
• 6:11:15
  sledge sped on as lightly as a boat over the waves. When the breeze
• 6:11:21
  came skimming over the earth, the sledge seemed to be lifted off the ground
• 6:11:23
  by its sails. Mudge, who was at the rudder, kept in a
• 6:11:27
  straight line, and by a turn of his hand, checked the lurches which
• 6:11:32
  the vehicle had a tendency to make. All the sails were up, and
• 6:11:36
  the jib was so arranged as not to screen the brigantine. A topmast was
• 6:11:41
  hoisted, and another jib held out to the wind, added its force to
• 6:11:45
  the other sails. Although the speed could not be exactly estimated, the sledge
• 6:11:51
  could not be going at less than forty miles an hour. If nothing breaks,
• 6:11:56
  said Mudge, we shall get there. Mister Fogg had made it for
• 6:12:00
  Mudge's interest to reach Omaha within the time agreed upon by the offer of a
• 6:12:04
  handsome reward. The prairie across which the sledge was moving in a straight line
• 6:12:11
  was as flat as a sea. It seemed like a vast frozen lake.
• 6:12:15
  The railroad which ran through this section ascended from the southwest to the northwest by
• 6:12:21
  Great Island, Columbus, an important Nebraska town Schuyler, and Fremont to Omaha.
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  It followed throughout the right bank of the Platte River. The sledge,
• 6:12:32
  shortening this route, took a cord of the ark described by the railway.
• 6:12:37
  Mudge was not afraid of being stopped by the Platte River because it was frozen.
• 6:12:41
  The road then was quite clear of obstacles and phileas. Fogg had but
• 6:12:45
  two things to fear, an accident to the sledge and a change or calm
• 6:12:49
  in the wind. But the breeze, far from lessening its force, blew
• 6:12:55
  as if to bend the mast, which, however, the metallic lashings held
• 6:12:59
  from these lashings, like the cords of a stringed instrument, resounded as if
• 6:13:04
  vibrated by a vile inbow. The sledge slid along in the midst of a
• 6:13:10
  plaintively intense melody. Those chords give the fifth and the octave, said mister
• 6:13:15
  Fogg. These were the only words he uttered during the journey. Aouda,
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  cozily packed in furs and cloaks, was sheltered as much as possible from the
• 6:13:26
  attacks of the freezing wind. As for Passepartout, his face was as red
• 6:13:30
  as the sun's disc when it sets in the mist, and he laboriously inhaled
• 6:13:36
  the biting air with his natural buoyancy of spirits. He began to hope again
• 6:13:41
  they would reach New York in the evening, if not on the morning of
• 6:13:45
  the eleventh, and there were still some chances that it would be before the
• 6:13:48
  steamer sailed for Liverpool. Passepartout even felt a strong desire to grasp his ally
• 6:13:56
  fix by the hand. He remembered that it was detective who procured the sledge
• 6:14:02
  the only means of reaching Omaha in time, but checked by some presentiment,
• 6:14:07
  he kept his usual reserve. One thing, however, Passepartout would never forget,
• 6:14:14
  and that was the sacrifice which mister Fogg had made without hesitation to rescue
• 6:14:18
  him from the sioux. Mister Fogg had risked his fortune and his life no,
• 6:14:25
  his servant would never forget that while each of the party was absorbed in
• 6:14:30
  reflections so different. The sledge flew past over the vast carpet of snow.
• 6:14:37
  The creeks that passed over were not perceived. Fields and streams disappeared under the
• 6:14:42
  uniform whiteness. The plain was absolutely deserted. Between the Union Pacific Road and
• 6:14:48
  the branch which unites Kearney with Saint Joseph had formed a great uninhabited island.
• 6:14:55
  Neither village, station nor fort appeared. From time to time they sped by
• 6:15:00
  some phantom like tree, whose white skeleton twisted and rattled in the wind.
• 6:15:07
  Sometimes flocks of wild birds rose, or bands of gaunt famished. Ferocious prairie
• 6:15:11
  wolves ran howling. After the sledge passepartout. Revolver in hand, held himself
• 6:15:18
  ready to fire on those which came too near. Had an accident then happened
• 6:15:22
  to the sledge. The travelers attacked by these beasts would have been in the
• 6:15:27
  most terrible danger, but it held on its even course, soon gained on
• 6:15:33
  the wolves, and ere long left the howling band at a safe distance behind.
• 6:15:38
  About noon, Mudge perceived by certain landmarks that he was crossing the Platte
• 6:15:42
  River. He said nothing, but he felt certain that he was now within
• 6:15:47
  twenty miles of Omaha in less than an hour. He left the rudder and
• 6:15:52
  furled his sails, whilst the sledge carried forward by the great impetus the wind
• 6:15:56
  had given. It went on half a mile further, with its sails unspread.
• 6:16:02
  It stopped at last, and Mudge, pointing to a mass of roofs
• 6:16:06
  white with snow, said, we have got there. Arrived, arrived at
• 6:16:11
  the station which is in daily communication by numerous trains with the Atlantic Sea Board.
• 6:16:18
  Passpartu and Fix jumped off, stretched their stiffened limbs, and aided mister
• 6:16:22
  Fogg and the young woman to descend from the sledge Phileas Fogg generously rewarded Mudge,
• 6:16:29
  whose hand pass Partou warmly grasped, and the party directed their steps to
• 6:16:33
  the Omaha Railway station. The Pacific Railroad proper finds its terminus at this important
• 6:16:41
  Nebraska town. Omaha is connected with Chicago by the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad,
• 6:16:48
  which runs directly east and passes fifty stations. A train was ready to
• 6:16:52
  start when mister Fogg and his party reached the station, and they only had
• 6:16:57
  time to get into the cars. They had seen nothing of Omaha, but
• 6:17:02
  passepartout confessed to himself that this was not to be regretted, as they were
• 6:17:06
  not traveling to see the sights. The train passed rapidly across the state of
• 6:17:11
  Iowa by Council Bluffs, Des Moines and Iowa City during the night. It
• 6:17:18
  crossed the Mississippi at Davenport and by Rock Island. Entered Illinois the next day,
• 6:17:23
  which was the tenth. At four o'clock in the evening. It reached
• 6:17:27
  Chicago, already risen from its ruins and more proudly seated than ever on the
• 6:17:32
  borders of its beautiful Lake Michigan. Nine hundred miles separated Chicago from New York,
• 6:17:38
  but trains are not wanting at Chicago. Mister Fogg passed at once from
• 6:17:42
  one to the other, and the locomotive of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and
• 6:17:48
  Chicago Railway left at full speed, as if it fully comprehended that that gentleman
• 6:17:52
  had no time to lose. It traversed Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and
• 6:17:59
  New Jersey like a flash, rushing through towns with antique names, some of
• 6:18:03
  which had streets and card tracks, but as yet no houses. At last,
• 6:18:08
  the Hudson came into view, and at a quarter past eleven in the
• 6:18:12
  evening of the eleventh the train stopped in the station on the right bank of
• 6:18:18
  the river before the very pier of the Cunard line. The China for Liverpool
• 6:18:22
  had started three quarters of an hour before end of chapter chapter thirty two,
• 6:18:33
  in which Phileas Fogg engages in a direct struggle with bad fortune. The China,
• 6:18:41
  in leaving seemed to have carried off Phileas Fogg's last hope. None of
• 6:18:47
  the other steamers were able to serve his projects. The Pereire of the French
• 6:18:52
  Transatlantic Company, whose admirable steamers are equal to any in speed and comfort,
• 6:18:57
  did not leave until the fourth The Hamburg boats did not go directly to Liverpool
• 6:19:03
  or London, but to Hove, and the additional trip from Hove to Southampton
• 6:19:07
  would render Phileas Fogg's last efforts of no avail. The Inman steamer did not
• 6:19:14
  depart till the next day and could not cross the Atlantic in time to save
• 6:19:18
  the wager. Mister Fogg learned all this in consoling his Bradshaw, which gave
• 6:19:22
  him the daily movements of the Transatlantic steamers. Passepartout was crushed. It overwhelmed
• 6:19:30
  him to lose the boat by three quarters of an hour. It was his
• 6:19:34
  fault, for instead of helping his master, he had not ceased putting obstacles
• 6:19:38
  in his path. And when he recalled all the incidents of the tour,
• 6:19:44
  when he counted up the sums expended in pure loss, and on his own
• 6:19:48
  account, when he thought that the immense stake, added to the heavy charges
• 6:19:52
  of this useless journey, would completely ruin mister Fogg, he overwhelmed himself with
• 6:19:57
  bitter self accusation. Mister Fogg, however, did not reproach him, and
• 6:20:04
  on leaving the Cunard Pier only said, we will consult about what is best
• 6:20:10
  tomorrow. Come. The party crossed the Hudson in the Jersey City ferryboat and
• 6:20:17
  drove in a carriage to the Saint Nicholas Hotel on Broadway. Rooms were engaged,
• 6:20:22
  and the night passed briefly to Phileas Fogg, who slept profoundly, but
• 6:20:26
  very long, to auDA and the others, whose agitation did not permit them
• 6:20:32
  to rest. The next day was the twelfth of December, from seven in
• 6:20:37
  the morning of the twelfth to a quarter before nine in the evening of the
• 6:20:41
  twenty first, there were nine days, thirteen hours, and forty five minutes.
• 6:20:47
  If Phileas Fogg had left in the China, one of the fastest steamers
• 6:20:49
  on the Atlantic, he would have reached Liverpool and then London within the period
• 6:20:55
  agreed upon. Mister Fogg left the hotel alone, after giving jaspartout instructions to
• 6:21:00
  await his return and inform Aouda to be ready at an instant's notice. He
• 6:21:07
  proceeded to the banks of the Hudson and looked about among the vessels moored or
• 6:21:11
  anchored in the river for any that were about to depart. Several had departure
• 6:21:17
  signals and were preparing to put to sea at morning tide. For in this
• 6:21:21
  immense and admirable port, there is not one day in a hundred that vessels
• 6:21:25
  do not set out for every quarter of the globe. But they were mostly
• 6:21:30
  sailing vessels, of which, of course Phileas Fogg could make no use.
• 6:21:36
  He seemed about to give up all hope when he has spied anchored at the
• 6:21:41
  battery a cable's length off at most a trading vessel with a screw well shaped,
• 6:21:47
  whose funnel puffing a cloud of smoke, indicated that she was getting ready
• 6:21:51
  for departure. Phileas Fogg hailed the boat, got into it, and soon
• 6:21:56
  found himself on board the Henrietta, iron hulled wood built above. He ascended
• 6:22:03
  to the deck and asked for the captain, who forthwith presented himself. He
• 6:22:07
  was a man of fifty, a sort of sea wolf, with big eyes,
• 6:22:11
  a complexion of oxidized copper red hair, and thick neck, and a
• 6:22:17
  growling voice. The captain asked, mister Fogg, I am the captain.
• 6:22:25
  I'm Phileas Fogg of London, and I am Andrew Speedy of Cardiff. You
• 6:22:32
  are going to put to sea in an hour. You are bound for Mordaux,
• 6:22:40
  and your cargo no freight going in ballast. Have you any passengers?
• 6:22:47
  No passengers, Never have passengers too much in the way. Is your vessel
• 6:22:53
  a swift one between eleven and twelve knots? The Henrietta well known. Will
• 6:23:00
  you carry me and three other persons to Liverpool? To Liverpool? Why not
• 6:23:07
  to China? I said Liverpool? No, no, no, I am
• 6:23:15
  setting out for Bordeaux. And shall go to Bordeaux. Money is no object
• 6:23:22
  none. The captain spoke in a tone which did not admit of a reply,
• 6:23:27
  But the owners of the Henrietta resumed Phileas Fogg. The owners are myself,
• 6:23:34
  replied the captain. The vessel belongs to me. I will freight it
• 6:23:40
  for you. No, I will buy it of you. No. Phileas
• 6:23:48
  Fogg did not betray the least disappointment. But the situation was a grave one.
• 6:23:52
  It was not at New York, as at Hong Kong, nor with
• 6:23:56
  the captain of the Henrietta, as with the captain of the Tare. Up
• 6:24:00
  to this time, money had smoothed away every obstacle. Now money failed.
• 6:24:07
  Still, some means must be found across the Atlantic on a boat, unless
• 6:24:11
  by balloon, which would have been venturesome, besides not being capable of being
• 6:24:17
  put in practice. It seemed that Phileas Fogg had an idea. For he
• 6:24:21
  said to the captain, well, will you carry me to Bordeaux? No,
• 6:24:27
  not if you paid me two hundred dollars. I offer you two thousand
• 6:24:33
  a piece a piece, and there are four of you four. Captain Speedy
• 6:24:41
  began to scratch his head. There were eight thousand dollars to gain without changing
• 6:24:48
  his route, for which it was well worth conquering the repugnance he had for
• 6:24:52
  all kinds of passengers. Besides passengers at two thousand dollars are no longer passengers,
• 6:24:57
  but valuable merchandise. I start at nine o'clock, said Captain Speedy.
• 6:25:03
  Simply, are you and your party ready? We will be on board at
• 6:25:08
  nine o'clock, replied no less simply, mister Fogg, it was half past
• 6:25:15
  eight, did disembark from the Henrietta, jump into a hack, hurry to
• 6:25:18
  the Saint Nicholas and return with aouda Passepartout, and even the inseparable fix was
• 6:25:25
  the work of a brief time, and was performed by mister Fogg with the
• 6:25:27
  coolness which never abandoned him. They were on board when the Henrietta made ready
• 6:25:33
  to weigh anchor. When Passepartout heard what this last voyage was going to cost,
• 6:25:37
  he uttered a prolonged oh, which extended throughout his vocal gamut. As
• 6:25:45
  for fix, he said to himself that the Bank of England would certainly not
• 6:25:48
  come out of this affair well indemnified when they reached England, even if mister
• 6:25:53
  Fogg did not throw some handfuls of bank bills into the sea, more than
• 6:25:59
  seven thousand pounds would have been spent. End of chapter chapter thirty three,
• 6:26:06
  in which Phileas Fogg shows himself equal to the occasion. An hour after the
• 6:26:15
  Henrietta passed the lighthouse which marks the entrance of the Hudson, turned the point
• 6:26:19
  of Sandy Hook and put to sea. During the day, she skirted Long
• 6:26:23
  Island, passed Fire Island, and directed her course rapidly eastward. At noon
• 6:26:30
  the next day, a man mounted the bridge to ascertain the vessel's position.
• 6:26:34
  It might be thought that this was Captain Speedy, not the least in the
• 6:26:38
  world. It was Phileas Fogg, esquire as for Captain Speedy, he was
• 6:26:45
  shut up in his cabin under lock and key, and was uttering loud cries
• 6:26:48
  which signified in anger at once pardonable and excessive. What had happened was very
• 6:26:55
  simple. Phileas Fogg wished to go to Liverpool, but the captain would not
• 6:26:59
  care marry him there. Then Phileas Fogg had taken passage for Bordeaux, and
• 6:27:04
  during the thirty hours he had been on board, had so shrewdly managed with
• 6:27:08
  his bank notes that the sailors and stokers, who were only an occasional crew
• 6:27:14
  and were not on the best terms with the captain, went over to him
• 6:27:18
  in a body. This was why Phileas Fogg was in command instead of Captain
• 6:27:22
  Speedy, why the captain was a prisoner in his cabin, and why,
• 6:27:26
  in short, the Henrietta was directing her course towards Liverpool. It was very
• 6:27:33
  clear to see mister Fogg manage the craft, that he had been a sailor.
• 6:27:38
  How the adventure ended will be seen. Anon Aouda was anxious, though
• 6:27:44
  she said nothing as for passepartout. He thought mister Fogg's maneuver simply glorious.
• 6:27:49
  The captain had said between eleven and twelve knots, and the Henrietta confirmed his
• 6:27:56
  prediction. If then, for there were ifs still, the sea did not
• 6:28:02
  become too boisterous, if the wind did not veer round to the east,
• 6:28:07
  if no accident happened to the boat or its machinery, the Henrietta might cross
• 6:28:11
  the three thousand miles from New York to Liverpool in the nine days between the
• 6:28:17
  twelfth and the twenty first of December. It is true that once arrived.
• 6:28:22
  The affair on board the Henrietta, added to that of the Bank of England,
• 6:28:26
  might create more difficulties from mister Fogg than he imagined or could desire.
• 6:28:33
  During the first days, they went along smoothly enough. The sea was not
• 6:28:37
  very unpropitious, The wind seemed stationary in the northeast. The sails were hoisted,
• 6:28:44
  and the Henrietta plowed across the waves like a real Transatlantic steamer. Passepartout
• 6:28:51
  was delighted his master's last exploit, the consequences of which he ignored, enchanted
• 6:28:56
  him. Never had the crew seen so jolly and dexterous a fellow. He
• 6:29:02
  formed warm friendships with the sailors and amazed them with his acrobatic feats. He
• 6:29:07
  thought they managed the vessel like gentlemen, and that the stokers fired up like
• 6:29:11
  heroes. His loquacious good humor infected everyone. He had forgotten the past,
• 6:29:18
  its vexations and delays. He only thought of the end so nearly accomplished,
• 6:29:25
  and sometimes he boiled over with impatience, as if heated by the furnaces of
• 6:29:29
  the Henrietta. Often, also, the worthy fellow revolved around fix looking at
• 6:29:36
  him with a keen distrustful eye, but he did not speak to him,
• 6:29:41
  for their old intimacy no longer existed. Fix, it must be confessed,
• 6:29:47
  understood nothing of what was going on. The conquest of the Henrietta. The
• 6:29:51
  bribery of the crew, Fog, managing the boat like a skilled seaman,
• 6:29:56
  amazed and confused him. He did not know what what to think. For
• 6:30:00
  after all, a man who began by stealing fifty five thousand pounds might end
• 6:30:06
  by stealing a vessel, and Fix was not unnaturally inclined to conclude that the
• 6:30:11
  Henrietta under Fogg's command was not going to Liverpool at all, but to some
• 6:30:15
  part of the world where the robber turned into a pirate would quietly put himself
• 6:30:21
  in safety. The conjecture was at least a plausible one, and the detective
• 6:30:26
  began to seriously regret that he had embarked on the affair. As for Captain
• 6:30:32
  Speedy, he continued to howl and growl in his cabin and passepartout whose duty
• 6:30:37
  it was to carry him his meals. Courageous as he was, took the
• 6:30:42
  greatest precautions. Mister Fogg did not seem even to know that there was a
• 6:30:48
  captain on board. On the thirteenth they passed the edge of the Banks of
• 6:30:52
  Newfoundland, a dangerous locality during the winter, especially there are frequent fogs and
• 6:30:59
  heavy gales of wind. Ever since the evening before, the barometer suddenly falling
• 6:31:04
  had indicated an approaching change in the atmosphere, and during the night the temperature
• 6:31:10
  varied, the cold became sharper, and the wind veered to the southeast.
• 6:31:15
  This was a misfortune. Mister Fogg, in order not to deviate from his
• 6:31:21
  course, furled his sails and increased the force of the steam. But the
• 6:31:26
  vessel speed slackened owing to the state of the sea, the long waves of
• 6:31:30
  which broke against the stern. She pitched violently, and this retarded her progress.
• 6:31:37
  The breeze, little by little swelled into a tempest, and it was
• 6:31:41
  to be feared that the Henrietta might not be able to maintain herself upright on
• 6:31:45
  the waves. Passepartout's visage darkened with the skies, and for two days the
• 6:31:52
  poor fellow experienced constant fright. But Phileas Fogg was a bold mariner and knew
• 6:31:57
  how to maintain head way against the sea, and he kept on his course
• 6:32:03
  without even decreasing his steam. The Henrietta, when she could not rise upon
• 6:32:07
  the waves, crossed them, swamping her deck, but passing safely. Sometimes
• 6:32:14
  the screw rose out of the water, beating its protruding end when a mountain
• 6:32:18
  of water raised the stern above the waves, but the craft always kept straight
• 6:32:23
  ahead. The wind, however, did not grow as boisterous as might have
• 6:32:27
  been feared. It was not one of those tempests which burst and rushed on
• 6:32:32
  with the speed of ninety miles an hour. It continued fresh, but unhappily
• 6:32:37
  it remained obstinately in the southeast, rendering the sails useless. The sixteenth of
• 6:32:45
  December was the seventy fifth day since Phileas Fogg's departure from London, and the
• 6:32:51
  Henrietta had not yet been seriously delayed. Half of the voyage was almost accomplished,
• 6:32:56
  and the worst localities had been passed in sight Slummer, success would have
• 6:33:00
  been wellnigh certain. In winter they were at the mercy of the bad season.
• 6:33:07
  Pastpartout said nothing, but he cherished hope in secret, and comforted himself
• 6:33:11
  with the reflection that if the wind failed them they might still count on the
• 6:33:15
  steam. On this day, the engineer came on deck, went up to
• 6:33:21
  mister Fogg and began to speak earnestly with him. Without knowing why, it
• 6:33:25
  was a presentiment. Perhaps, Passepartout became vaguely uneasy. He would have given
• 6:33:30
  one of his ears to hear with the other what the engineer was saying.
• 6:33:34
  He finally managed to catch a few words and was sure he heard his master
• 6:33:38
  say, you are certain of what you tell me? Certain, sir,
• 6:33:45
  replied the engineer. You must remember that since we started, we have got
• 6:33:49
  up hot fires in all our furnaces, and though we had cold enough to
• 6:33:53
  go on short steam from New York to Bordeaux, we haven't enough to go
• 6:33:59
  with all steam from New York to Liverpool. I will consider, replied mister
• 6:34:06
  Fogg. Passepartout understood it all. He was seized with mortal anxiety. The
• 6:34:11
  coal was giving out. Ah. If my master can get over that,
• 6:34:18
  muttered he, he'll be a famous man. He could not help imparting to
• 6:34:22
  fix what he had overheard. Then you believe that we really are going to
• 6:34:27
  Liverpool, of course, ass replied the detective, shrugging his shoulders and turning
• 6:34:36
  on his heel. Pass Partout was on the point of vigorously resenting the epithet,
• 6:34:41
  the reason of which he could not, for the life of him comprehend,
• 6:34:45
  But he reflected that the unfortunate fix was probably very much disappointed and humiliated
• 6:34:52
  in his self esteem, after having so awkwardly followed a false scent around the
• 6:34:56
  world and refrained. And now what course would Phileas Fogg adopt? It was
• 6:35:03
  difficult to imagine. Nevertheless, he seemed to have decided upon one. For
• 6:35:08
  that evening, he sent for the engineer and said to him, feed all
• 6:35:12
  the fires until the coal is exhausted. A few moments after the funnel of
• 6:35:18
  the Henrietta vomited forth torrents of smoke. The vessel continued to proceed with all
• 6:35:25
  steam on. But on the eighteenth the engineer, as he had predicted,
• 6:35:30
  announced that the coal would give out in the course of the day. Do
• 6:35:34
  not let the fires go down, replied mister Fogg. Keep them up to
• 6:35:38
  the last, let the valves be filled Towards noon. Phileas Fogg, having
• 6:35:45
  ascertained their position, called past partout and ordered him to go for Captain Speedy.
• 6:35:52
  It was as if the honest fellow had been commanded to unchain a tiger.
• 6:35:56
  He went to the poop, saying to himself, he will be like
• 6:36:00
  a madman. In a few moments, with cries and oaths, a bomb
• 6:36:07
  appeared on the poop deck. The bomb was Captain Speedy. It was clear
• 6:36:11
  that he was on the point of bursting. Where are we were the first
• 6:36:15
  words his anger permitted him to utter. Had the poor man been an apoplectic,
• 6:36:21
  he could never have recovered from his paroxysm of wrath. Where are we?
• 6:36:27
  He repeated with purple face. Seven hundred and seven miles from Liverpool,
• 6:36:33
  replied mister Fogg, with imperturbable calmness. Pirate, cried Captain Speedy. I
• 6:36:41
  have sent for you, sir, pick a roon, sir, continued mister
• 6:36:48
  Fogg, to ask you to sell me your vessel. No, by all
• 6:36:52
  the devils, no, but I shall be obliged to burn her, burn
• 6:36:59
  the henry Anne, Yes, at least the upper part of her. The
• 6:37:03
  coal has given out. Burn my vessel, cried Captain Speedy, who could
• 6:37:10
  scarcely pronounce the words A vessel worth fifty thousand dollars. Here are sixty thousand,
• 6:37:18
  replied Phileas Fogg, handing the captain a roll of bank bills. This
• 6:37:22
  had a prodigious effect on Andrew Speedy. An American can scarcely remain unmoved.
• 6:37:29
  At the sight of sixty thousand dollars. The captain forgot in an instant,
• 6:37:33
  his anger, his imprisonment, and all his grudges against his passenger. The
• 6:37:38
  henrietta was twenty years old. It was a great bargain. The bomb would
• 6:37:44
  not go off after all, mister Fogg had taken away the match. And
• 6:37:48
  I shall still have the iron hull, said the captain in a softer tone.
• 6:37:55
  The iron hull and the engine is it agreed? And Andrew Speedy,
• 6:38:02
  seizing the banknotes, counted them and consigned them to his pocket. During this
• 6:38:07
  colloquy, passepartout was as white as a sheet, and Fix seemed on the
• 6:38:11
  point of having an apoplectic fit. Nearly twenty thousand pounds had been expended,
• 6:38:17
  and Fogg left the hull and engined to the captain, that is near the
• 6:38:21
  whole value of the craft. It was true, however, that fifty five
• 6:38:26
  thousand pounds have been stolen from the bank. When Andrew Speedy had pocketed the
• 6:38:30
  money, mister Fogg said to him, don't let this astonish you, sir.
• 6:38:36
  You must know that I shall lose twenty thousand pounds unless I arrive in
• 6:38:40
  London by a quarter before nine on the evening of the twenty first of December.
• 6:38:44
  I missed the steamer at New York, and as you refused to take
• 6:38:48
  me to Liverpool, and I did well, cried Andrew Speedy, for I
• 6:38:52
  have gained at least forty thousand dollars by it. He added, more sedately,
• 6:38:59
  do you know one thing, Captain Fog. Captain Fogg, you've got
• 6:39:06
  something of a Yankee about you. And having paid his passenger what he considered
• 6:39:11
  a high compliment, he was going away when mister Fogg said, the vessel
• 6:39:17
  now belongs to me, certainly, from the keel to the trunk of the
• 6:39:22
  mass. All the wood that is very well. Have the interior seats,
• 6:39:27
  bunks and frames pulled down and burned them. It was necessary to have dry
• 6:39:33
  wood to keep the steam up to the adequate pressure, and on that day
• 6:39:37
  the poop cabins, bunks, and the spare deck were sacrificed. On the
• 6:39:42
  next day, the nineteenth of December, the masts, rafts and spars were
• 6:39:48
  burned. The crew worked lustily keeping up the fires pass par two hewed,
• 6:39:52
  cut and sawed away with all his might. There was a perfect rage for
• 6:39:56
  demolition. The railings fitting the greater part of the deck and top sides disappeared
• 6:40:03
  on the twentieth, and the Henrietta was now only a flat hulk. But
• 6:40:07
  on this day they sighted the Irish coast and Fastnet light. By ten in
• 6:40:12
  the evening they were passing Queenstown. Phileas Fogg had only twenty four hours more
• 6:40:18
  in which to get to London. That length of time was necessary to reach
• 6:40:22
  Liverpool with all steam on, and the steam was about to give out altogether.
• 6:40:29
  Sir, said Captain Speedy, who was now deeply interested in mister Fogg's
• 6:40:33
  project. I really commiserate you. Everything is against you. We are only
• 6:40:38
  opposite Queenstown, ah, said mister Fogg. Is that place where we see
• 6:40:45
  the lights, Queenstown. Yes, can we enter the harbor? Not under
• 6:40:51
  three hours? Only at high tide stay, replied mister Fogg, calmly,
• 6:40:56
  without betraying in his features, that by us prime inspiration he was about to
• 6:41:00
  attempt once more to conquer ill fortune. Queenstown is the Irish port at which
• 6:41:07
  the Transatlantic steamers stopped to put off the mails. These mails are carried to
• 6:41:12
  Dublin by express trains always held in readiness to start. From Dublin, they
• 6:41:17
  are sent on to Liverpool by the most rapid boats, and thus gained twelve
• 6:41:22
  hours on the Atlantic steamers. Phileas Fogg counted on gaining twelve hours in the
• 6:41:27
  same way. Instead of arriving at Liverpool the next evening by the Henrietta,
• 6:41:33
  He would be there by noon, and would therefore have time to reach London
• 6:41:37
  before a quarter before nine in the evening. The Henrietta entered Queenstown Harbor at
• 6:41:42
  one o'clock in the morning, it then being high tide, and Phileas Fogg,
• 6:41:48
  after being grasped heartily by the hand by Captain Speedy, left that gentleman
• 6:41:52
  on the leveled hulk of his craft, which was still worth half what he
• 6:41:56
  had sold it for. The party went on shore at once. Fix was
• 6:42:02
  greatly tempted to arrest mister Fogg on the spot, but he did not why
• 6:42:07
  what struggle was going on within him? Had he changed his mind about his
• 6:42:12
  man? Did he understand that he had made a grave mistake. He did
• 6:42:18
  not, however, abandon mister Fogg they all got upon the train which was
• 6:42:22
  just ready to start at half past one at dawn of day. They were
• 6:42:27
  in Dublin, and they lost no time in embarking on a steamer, which,
• 6:42:32
  disdaining to rise upon the waves, invariably cut through them. Phileas Fogg
• 6:42:38
  at last disembarked on the Liverpool Key at twenty minutes before twelve twenty first December.
• 6:42:45
  He was only six hours distant from London. But at this moment Fix
• 6:42:51
  came up, put his hand upon mister Fogg's shoulder, and, showing his
• 6:42:56
  warrants, said you are really Phileas Fogg. I am I arrest you in
• 6:43:03
  the Queen's name. End of chapter chapter thirty four, in which Phileas Fogg
• 6:43:11
  at last reaches London. Phileas Fogg was in prison. He had been shut
• 6:43:21
  up in the custom House and he was to be transferred to London the next
• 6:43:25
  day. Pastpartu, when he saw his master arrested, would have fallen upon
• 6:43:30
  Fix, had he not been held back by some policeman. Aouda was thunderstruck
• 6:43:34
  at the suddenness of an event which she could not understand. Passpartu explained to
• 6:43:41
  her how it was that the honest and courageous Fogg was arrested as a robber.
• 6:43:45
  The young woman's heart revolted against so heinous a charge, and when she
• 6:43:49
  saw that she could attempt to do nothing to save her protector, she wept
• 6:43:55
  bitterly. As for Fix, he had arrested mister Fogg because as it was
• 6:44:00
  his duty, whether mister Fogg were guilty or not. The thought then struck
• 6:44:06
  Passepartout that he was the cause of this new misfortune. Had he not concealed
• 6:44:11
  Fix's errand from his master When Fix revealed his true character and purpose, Why
• 6:44:15
  had he not told mister Fogg. If the latter had been warned, he
• 6:44:19
  would no doubt have given Fixed proof of his innocence and satisfied him of his
• 6:44:25
  mistake. At least Fix would not have continued his journey at the expense and
• 6:44:30
  on the heels of his master, only to arrest him the moment he set
• 6:44:34
  foot on English soil. Paspartout wept till he was blind and felt like blowing
• 6:44:41
  his brains out. auDA and he had remained, despite the cold, under
• 6:44:45
  the portico of the custom house. Neither wished to leave the place. Both
• 6:44:51
  were anxious to see mister Fogg again that gentleman was really ruined, and that
• 6:44:56
  at the moment when he was about to attain his end, this arrest was
• 6:45:02
  fatal. Having arrived at Liverpool at twenty minutes before twelve on the twenty first
• 6:45:07
  of December, he had till a quarter before nine that evening to reach the
• 6:45:12
  Reform Club. That is nine hours and a quarter. The journey from Liverpool
• 6:45:18
  to London was six hours. If any one at this moment had entered the
• 6:45:23
  custom house, he would have found mister Fogg seated, motionless, calm and
• 6:45:29
  without apparent anger, upon a wooden bench. He was not, it is
• 6:45:33
  true, resigned, But this last blow failed to force him into an outward
• 6:45:38
  betrayal of any emotion. Was he being devoured by one of those secret rages,
• 6:45:45
  all the more terrible because contained, and which only burst forth with an
• 6:45:48
  irresistible force at the last moment, No one could tell. There he sat,
• 6:45:56
  calmly waiting for what. Did he still cherish hope? Did he still
• 6:46:02
  believe, now that the door of this prison was closed upon him, that
• 6:46:07
  he would succeed? However that may have been. Mister Fogg carefully put his
• 6:46:12
  watch upon the table and observed its advancing hands. Not a word escaped his
• 6:46:18
  lips, but his look was singularly set and stern. The situation, in
• 6:46:23
  any event, was a terrible one, and might be thus stated. If
• 6:46:27
  Phileas Fogg was honest, he was ruined. If he was a knave,
• 6:46:33
  he was caught. Did escape occur to him? Did he examine to see
• 6:46:37
  if there were any practicable outlet from his prison? Did he think of escaping
• 6:46:42
  from it? Possibly? For once? He walked slowly round the room,
• 6:46:48
  but the door was locked, and the window heavily barred with iron rods.
• 6:46:52
  He sat down again and drew his journal from his pocket. On the line
• 6:46:56
  where these words were written only first December, Saturday, Liverpool, he added
• 6:47:03
  eightieth day, eleven forty a m. And waited. The custom house clock
• 6:47:11
  struck one. Mister Fogg observed that his watch was two hours too fast,
• 6:47:18
  two hours. Admitting that he was at this moment taking an express train,
• 6:47:23
  he could reach London and the Reform Club by a quarter before nine p m.
• 6:47:29
  His forehead slightly wrinkled. At thirty three minutes past two, he heard
• 6:47:33
  a singular noise outside, then a hasty opening of doors. Passepartout's voice was
• 6:47:40
  audible, and immediately after that of Fix. Phileas Fogg's eyes brightened for an
• 6:47:45
  instant. The doors swung open, and he saw Passepartout, Aouda and Fix,
• 6:47:52
  who hurried towards him. Fix was out of breath and his hair was
• 6:47:56
  in disorder. He could not speak. Sir, he stammered, sir,
• 6:48:03
  forgive me most unfortunate resemblance a robber arrested three days ago. You were free,
• 6:48:11
  Phileas Fogg was free. He walked to the detective, looked him steadily
• 6:48:17
  in the face, and with the only rapid motion he ever made in his
• 6:48:21
  life, or which he ever would make, drew back his arms, and
• 6:48:25
  with the precision of a machine, knocked Fixed down. Well hit, cried
• 6:48:30
  Passepartout, par bleur. That's what you might call a good application of English
• 6:48:36
  fists. Fix, who found himself on the floor, did not utter a
• 6:48:41
  word. He had only received his deserts. Mister Fogg, auDA and Passepartout
• 6:48:47
  left the custom house without delay, got into a cab, and in a
• 6:48:51
  few moments descended at the station. Phileas Fogg asked if there was an express
• 6:48:56
  train about to leave for London. It was forty minutes past two. The
• 6:49:00
  express train had left thirty five minutes before. Phileas Fogg then ordered a special
• 6:49:07
  train. There were several rapid locomotives on hand, but the railway arrangements did
• 6:49:11
  not permit the special train to leave until three o'clock. At that hour,
• 6:49:17
  Phileas Fogg, having stimulated the engineer by the offer of a generous reward,
• 6:49:22
  at last set out towards London with aouda and his faithful servant. It was
• 6:49:27
  necessary to make the journey in five hours and a half, and this would
• 6:49:32
  have been easy on a clear road throughout, but there were forced delays,
• 6:49:37
  and when mister Fogg stepped from the train at the terminus, all the clocks
• 6:49:41
  in London were striking ten minutes before nine. Having made the tour of the
• 6:49:47
  world, he was behindhand five minutes. He had lost the wager end of
• 6:49:56
  chapter chapter thirty five, in which Phileas Fogg does not have to repeat his
• 6:50:02
  orders to passepartout twice. The dwellers and saddle Row would have been surprised the
• 6:50:11
  next day if they had been told that Phileas Fogg had returned home. His
• 6:50:15
  doors and windows were still closed. No appearance of change was visible. After
• 6:50:22
  leaving the station, mister Fogg gave passpartout instructions to purchase some provisions, and
• 6:50:26
  quietly went to his domicile. He bore his misfortune, with his habitual tranquility
• 6:50:34
  ruined, and by the blundering of the detective, after having steadily traversed that
• 6:50:41
  long journey, overcome a hundred obstacles, brave many dangers, and still found
• 6:50:48
  time to do some good on his way, to fail near the goal by
• 6:50:52
  a sudden event which he could not have foreseen, and against which he was
• 6:50:56
  unarmed. It was terrible. Two pounds were left of the large sum he
• 6:51:02
  had carried with him. There only remained of his fortune the twenty thousand pounds
• 6:51:06
  deposited at bearings, and this amount he owed to his friends of the Reform
• 6:51:11
  Club. So great had been the expense of his tour, that even had
• 6:51:15
  he won, it would not have enriched him. And it is probable that
• 6:51:19
  he had not sought to enrich himself, being a man who rather laid wages
• 6:51:25
  for honor's sake than for the stake proposed. But this wager totally ruined him.
• 6:51:32
  Mister Fogg's course, however, was fully decided upon he knew what remained
• 6:51:36
  for him to do. A room in the house and sable row was set
• 6:51:40
  apart for auDA, who was overwhelmed with grief at her protector's misfortune. From
• 6:51:45
  the words which mister Fogg dropped, she saw that he was meditating some serious
• 6:51:51
  project. Knowing that Englishmen governed by a fixed idea sometimes resort to the desperate
• 6:51:57
  expedient of suicide, Passparteux kept a narrow watch upon his master, though he
• 6:52:03
  carefully concealed the appearance of some doing. First of all, the worthy fellow
• 6:52:08
  had gone up to his room and had extinguished the gas burner, which had
• 6:52:14
  been burning for eighty days. He had found in the letter box a bill
• 6:52:18
  from the gas company, and he thought it more than time to put a
• 6:52:21
  stop to this expense which he had been doomed to bear. The night passed,
• 6:52:27
  mister Fogg went to bed, but did he sleep. Aouda did not
• 6:52:33
  once close her eyes. Passpartout watched all night like a faithful dog at his
• 6:52:38
  master's door. Mister Fogg called him in the morning and told him to get
• 6:52:44
  Aouda's breakfast and a cup of tea and a chop for himself. He desired
• 6:52:48
  Aouda to excuse him from breakfast and dinner, as his time would be absorbed
• 6:52:53
  all day in putting his affairs to rights. In the evening, he would
• 6:52:57
  ask permission to have a few moment's conversation with the young lady. Passepartout,
• 6:53:03
  having received his orders, had nothing to do but obey them. He looked
• 6:53:07
  at his imperturbable master and could scarcely bring his mind to leave him. His
• 6:53:14
  heart was full and his conscience tortured by remorse, for he accused himself more
• 6:53:19
  bitterly than ever, of being the cause of the irretrievable disaster. Yes,
• 6:53:26
  if he had warned mister Fogg and had betrayed Fix's projects to him, his
• 6:53:32
  master would certainly not have given the detective passage to Liverpool. And then Passepartout
• 6:53:38
  could hold in no longer my master, mister Fogg, he cried, why
• 6:53:45
  do you not curse me? It was my fault that I blame. No
• 6:53:51
  one, returned Phileas Fogg, with perfect calmness. Go. Passepartout left the
• 6:53:57
  room and went to find oh, to whom he delivered his master's message.
• 6:54:03
  Madam. He added, I can do nothing myself, nothing. I have
• 6:54:07
  no influence over my master. But you, perhaps what influence could I have,
• 6:54:15
  replied Aouda. Mister Fogg is influenced by no one. Has he ever
• 6:54:21
  understood that my gratitude to him is overflowing? Has he ever read my heart?
• 6:54:27
  My friend? He must not be left alone an instant You say he
• 6:54:32
  is going to speak with me this evening. Yes, madam, probably to
• 6:54:37
  arrange for your protection and comfort in England we shall see, replied Aouda,
• 6:54:44
  becoming suddenly pensive. Throughout this day Sunday, the house in Tsavo Row was
• 6:54:51
  as if uninhabited, and Phileas Fogg, for the first time since he had
• 6:54:55
  lived in that house, did not set out for his club when westmin mister
• 6:55:00
  clock struck half past eleven. Why should he present himself at the reform His
• 6:55:06
  friends no longer expected him there. As Phileas Fogg had not appeared in the
• 6:55:11
  saloon on the evening before Saturday, the twenty first of December, at a
• 6:55:15
  quarter before nine, he had lost his wager. It was not even necessary
• 6:55:21
  that he should go to his banker's for the twenty thousand pounds, for his
• 6:55:25
  antagonists already had his check in their hands, and they had only to fill
• 6:55:29
  it out and send it to the Bearings to have the amount transferred to their
• 6:55:32
  credit. Mister Fogg therefore had no reason for going out, and so he
• 6:55:37
  remained at home. He shut himself up in his room and busied himself putting
• 6:55:44
  his affairs in order. Passepartout, continually ascended and descended the stairs. The
• 6:55:51
  hours were long for him. He listened at his master's door and looked through
• 6:55:56
  the keyhole, as if he had a perfect right to do so, and
• 6:56:00
  as if he feared that something terrible might happen at any moment. Sometimes he
• 6:56:04
  thought of Fix, but no longer in anger. Fix, like all the
• 6:56:10
  world had been mistaken in Phileas Fogg, and had only done his duty in
• 6:56:14
  tracking and arresting him while he passepartout. This thought haunted him, and he
• 6:56:22
  never ceased cursing his miserable folly. Finding himself too wretched to remain alone,
• 6:56:27
  he knocked at Aouda's door, went into her room, seated himself without speaking,
• 6:56:33
  in a corner, and looked ruefully at the young woman. Aouda was
• 6:56:37
  still pensive. About half past seven in the evening, mister Fogg sent to
• 6:56:44
  know if Aouda would receive him, and in a few moments he found himself
• 6:56:48
  alone with her. Phileas Fogg took a chair and sat down near the fireplace
• 6:56:53
  opposite Ouda. No emotion was visible on his face. Fogg returned, was
• 6:57:00
  exactly the fog who had gone away. There was the same calm, the
• 6:57:04
  same impassibility. He sat several minutes without speaking, then, bending his eyes
• 6:57:12
  on Aouda, Madam said he will you pardon me for bringing you to England?
• 6:57:21
  I, mister Fogg, replied Ouda, checking the pulsations of her heart.
• 6:57:26
  Please let me finish, returned mister Fogg. When I decided to bring
• 6:57:32
  you far away from the country which was so unsafe for you, I was
• 6:57:36
  rich and counted on putting a portion of my fortune at your disposal. Then
• 6:57:41
  your existence would have been free and happy. But now I am ruined.
• 6:57:47
  I know it, mister Fogg, replied Aouda. And I ask you in
• 6:57:52
  my turn, will you forgive me for having followed you? And who knows
• 6:57:56
  for having perhaps delayed you thus contributed to your ruin. Madam. You could
• 6:58:03
  not remain in India, and your safety could only be assured by bringing you
• 6:58:07
  to such a distance that your persecutors could not take you, so, mister
• 6:58:14
  Fogg, resumed Aouda, not content with rescuing me from a terrible death,
• 6:58:19
  you thought yourself bound to secure my comfort in a foreign land, yes,
• 6:58:25
  madam, but circumstances have been against me. Still I beg to place the
• 6:58:30
  little I have left at your service. But what will become of you,
• 6:58:34
  mister Fogg? As for me, madam, replied the gentleman coldly, I
• 6:58:41
  have need of nothing. But how do you look upon the fate, sir,
• 6:58:47
  which awaits you? As I am in the habit of doing at least,
• 6:58:53
  said Aouda, wants should not overtake a man like you your friends?
• 6:59:00
  I have no friends, madam. Your relatives I have no longer any relatives.
• 6:59:07
  I pity you, then, mister Fogg, for solitude is a sad
• 6:59:12
  thing with no heart to which to confide your griefs. They say, though
• 6:59:18
  that misery, itself shared by two sympathetic souls, may be borne with patience.
• 6:59:26
  They say so, madam, mister Fogg, said Aouda, rising and
• 6:59:30
  seizing his hand. Do you wish at once a kinswoman and friend? Will
• 6:59:37
  you have me for your wife? Mister Fogg? At this rose in his
• 6:59:42
  turn. There was an unwonted light in his eyes and a slight trembling of
• 6:59:48
  his lips. Aouda looked into his face. The sincerity, rectitude, firmness,
• 6:59:55
  and sweetness of this soft glance of a noble woman who could dare all
• 7:00:00
  to save him, to whom she owed all, at first astonished, then
• 7:00:06
  penetrated him. He shut his eyes for an instant, as if to avoid
• 7:00:10
  her look. When he opened them again, I love you, he said,
• 7:00:17
  simply, Yes, by all that is holiest, I love you,
• 7:00:22
  and I am entirely yours, Ah, cried Aouda, pressing her hand to
• 7:00:27
  her heart. Passparteu was summoned and appeared immediately. Mister Fogg still held Aouda's
• 7:00:36
  hand in his own. Passepartout understood, and his big round face became as
• 7:00:41
  radiant as the tropical sun, added Senneth. Mister Fogg asked him if it
• 7:00:45
  was not too late to notify the Reverend Samuel Wilson of mary le Bone Parrish
• 7:00:51
  that evening. Passpartieu smiled his most genial smile and said, never too late.
• 7:00:59
  It was fire minutes past eight. Will it be for tomorrow Monday?
• 7:01:06
  For tomorrow Monday, said mister Fogg, turning to aouda yes for tomorrow Monday,
• 7:01:14
  she replied, passepartout hurried off as fast as his legs could carry him.
• 7:01:21
  End of chapter, Chapter thirty six, in which Phileas Fogg's name is
• 7:01:26
  once more at a premium on change. It is time to relate what a
• 7:01:33
  change took place in English public opinion when it transpired that the real bank robber,
• 7:01:40
  a certain James Strand, had been arrested on the seventeenth day of December
• 7:01:45
  at Edinburgh. Three days before. Phileas Fogg had been a criminal who was
• 7:01:49
  being desperately followed up by the police. Now he was an honorable gentleman,
• 7:01:55
  mathematically pursuing his eccentric journey round the world. The papers resumed their discussion about
• 7:02:02
  the wager. All those who had laid bets for or against him revived their
• 7:02:07
  interest, As if by magic, The Phileas Fogg bonds again became negotiable,
• 7:02:12
  and many new wagers were made. Phileas Fogg's name was once more at a
• 7:02:17
  premium on change. His five friends of the Reform Club passed these three days
• 7:02:22
  in a state of feverish suspense. Would Phileas Fogg whom they had forgotten,
• 7:02:27
  reappear before their eyes. Where was he at this moment? The seventeenth of
• 7:02:33
  December, the day of James Strand's arrest, was the seventy sixth since Phileas
• 7:02:40
  Fogg's departure, and no news of him had been received. Was he dead,
• 7:02:45
  had he abandoned the effort? Or was he continuing his journey along the
• 7:02:48
  route agreed upon? And would he appear on Saturday, the twenty first of
• 7:02:53
  December, at a quarter before nine in the evening, on the threshold of
• 7:02:57
  the Reform Club saloon. The anxiety in which for three days London society existed
• 7:03:04
  cannot be described. Telegrams were sent to America and Asia for news of Phileas
• 7:03:10
  Fogg. Messengers were dispatched to the house in saddle Row morning and evening.
• 7:03:17
  No news. The police were ignorant what had become of the detective Fix who
• 7:03:22
  had so unfortunately followed up a false scent. Bets increased nevertheless in number and
• 7:03:27
  value. Phileas Fogg, like a race horse, was drawing near his last
• 7:03:33
  turning point. The bonds were quoted no longer at a hundred below par,
• 7:03:37
  but at twenty, at ten, and at five and paralytic old Lord Albemarle
• 7:03:45
  bet even in his favor. A great crowd was collected in Pellmell and the
• 7:03:51
  neighboring streets on Saturday evening. It seemed like a multitude of brokers permanently established
• 7:03:56
  around the Reform Club. Circulation was in and everywhere, disputes, discussions and
• 7:04:03
  financial transactions were going on. The police had great difficulty in keeping back the
• 7:04:08
  crowd, and as the hour when Phileas Fogg was due approached, the excitement
• 7:04:14
  rose to its highest pitch. The five antagonists of Phileas Fogg had met in
• 7:04:18
  the great saloon of the club, John Sullivan and Samuel Flanton, the bankers,
• 7:04:25
  Andrew Stewart, the engineer, Guthier Ralph, the director of the Bank
• 7:04:30
  of England, and Thomas Flanagan, the brewer. One in all waited anxiously.
• 7:04:37
  When the clock indicated twenty minutes past eight, Andrew Stewart got up,
• 7:04:41
  saying, gentlemen, and in twenty minutes the time agreed upon between mister Fogg
• 7:04:45
  and ourselves will have expired. What time did the last train arrive from Liverpool?
• 7:04:52
  Asked Thomas Flennigan. At twenty three minutes past seven, replied Guthier Ralph,
• 7:05:00
  and the next does not arrive till ten minutes after twelve. Well,
• 7:05:04
  gentlemen, resumed Andrew Stuart. If Phileas Fogg had come in on the seven
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  twenty three train, he would have got here by this time. We can
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  therefore regard the bet as one. Wait. Don't let us be too hasty,
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  replied Samuel Fallenton. You know that mister Fogg is very eccentric. His
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  punctuality is well known. He never arrives too soon or too late, and
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  I should not be surprised if he appeared before us at the last minute.
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  Why, said Andrew Stuart nervously, if I should see him, I should
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  not believe it was he. The fact is, resumed Thomas Flannagan. Mister
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  Fogg's project was absurdly foolish. Whatever his punctuality, he could not prevent the
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  delays which were certain to occur, and a delay of only two or three
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  days would be fatal to his tour. I observe too, added John Sullivan,
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  that we have received no intelligence from him, though there are telegraphic lines
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  all along his route. He has lost gentlemen, said Andrew Stewart. He
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  has a hundred times lost. You know, besides that the China, the
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  only steamer he could have taken from New York to get here in time,
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  arrived yesterday. I have seen a list of the passengers, and the name
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  of Phileas Fogg is not among them. Even if we admit that fortune has
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  favored him, he can scarcely have reached America. I think he will be
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  at least twenty days behindhand, and that Lord Albemarle will lose a cool five
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  thousand. It is clear, replied Gothier Ralph. And we have nothing to
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  do but to present mister Fogg's check at bearings tomorrow. At this moment,
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  the hands of the club clock pointed to twenty minutes to nine, five minutes
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  more, said Andrew Stuart. The five gentlemen looked at each other. Their
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  anxiety was becoming intense, but not wishing to betray it, they readily assented
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  to mister Fallaton's proposal of a rubber I wouldn't give up my four thousand of
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  the bet, said Andrew Stuart, as he took his seat for three thousand,
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  nine hundred and ninety nine. The clock indicated eighteen minutes to nine.
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  The players took up their cards, but could not keep their eyes off the
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  clock. Certainly, however secure, they felt, minutes had never seemed so
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  long to them. Seventeen minutes to nine, said Thomas Flannagan as he cut
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  the cards which Ralph handed to him. Then there was a moment of silence.
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  The great saloon was perfectly quiet, but the murmurs of the crowd outside
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  were heard with now and then a shrill cry. The pendulum beat the seconds,
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  which each player eagerly counted as he listened with mathematical regularity. Sixteen minutes
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  to nine, said John Sullivan, in a voice which betrayed his emotion.
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  One minute more and the wager would be won. Andrew Stewart and his partners
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  suspended their game. They left their cards and counted the seconds. At the
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  fortieth second, nothing, At the fiftieth, still nothing. At the fifty
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  fifth, a loud cry was heard in the street, followed by applause,
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  hurrahs, and some fierce growls. The players arose from their seats. At
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  the fifty seventh second, the door of the saloon opened, and the pendulum
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  had not beat the sixtieth second, when Phileas Fogg appeared, followed by an
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  excited crowd who had forced their way through the club doors, and in his
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  calm voice, said, here I am, gentlemen. End of chapter chapter
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  thirty seven, in which it has shown that Phileas Fogg gained nothing by his
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  tour around the world unless it were happiness. Yes, Phileas Fogg in person.
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  The reader will remember that at five minutes passed eight in the evening,
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  about five and twenty hours after the arrival of the travelers in London, Passepartout
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  had been sent by his master to engage the services of the Reverend Samuel Wilson
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  in a certain marriage ceremony which was to take place the next day. Passpartout
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  went on his errand enchanted, He soon reached the clergyman's house, but found
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  him not at home. Passepartout waited a good twenty minutes, and when he
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  left the reverend gentleman, it was thirty five minutes past eight. But in
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  what a state he was, With his hair in disorder and without his hat.
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  He ran along the street as never man was seen to run before,
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  over turning passers by rushing over the sidewalk like a water spout. In three
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  minutes he was in savile row again and staggered back into mister Fogg's room.
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  He could not speak. What is the matter, asked mister Fogg, why,
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  master gasped past Part two? Marriage impossible, impossible, impossible for tomorrow?
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  Why so because tomorrow is Sunday, Monday, replied mister Fogg. No,
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  today is Saturday, Saturday impossible. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
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  cried past part two. You have made a mistake of one day.
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  We arrived twenty four hours ahead of time, but there are only ten minutes
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  left. Passepartout had seized his master by the collar and was dragging him along
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  with irresistible force. Phileas Fogg thus kidnapped, without having time to think,
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  left his house, jumped into a cab, promised one hundred pounds to the
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  cabman, and, having run over two dogs and overturned five carriages, reached
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  the Reform Club. The clock indicated a quarter before nine when he appeared in
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  the Great Saloon. Phileas Fogg had accomplished the journey round the world in eighty
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  days. Phileas Fogg had won his wager of twenty thousand pounds. How was
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  it that a man so exact and fastidious could have made this error of a
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  day. How came he to think that he had arrived in London on Saturday,
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  the twenty first day of December, when it was really Friday the twentieth,
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  the seventy ninth day only from his departure. The error is very simple.
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  Phileas Fogg had, without suspecting it, gained one day on his journey,
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  and this merely because he had traveled constantly eastward. He would, on
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  the contrary, have lost a day had he gone in the opposite direction,
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  that is westward. In journeying eastward, he had gone towards the Sun,
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  and the days therefore diminished for him as many times four minutes as he crossed
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  degrees in this direction. There are three hundred and sixty degrees on the circumference
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  of the Earth, and these three hundred and sixty degrees, multiplied by four
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  minutes, gives precisely twenty four hours, that is the day unconsciously gained.
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  In other words, while Phileas Fogg, going eastward, saw the Sun pass
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  the meridian eighty times, his friends in London only saw it pass the meridian
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  seventy nine times. This is why they awaited him at the Reform Club on
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  Saturday and not Sunday, as mister Fogg thought, and Passepartout's famous family watch,
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  which had always kept London time, would have betrayed this fact if it
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  had marked the days as well as the hours and the minutes. Phileas Fogg
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  then had won the twenty thousand pounds, but as he had spent nearly nineteen
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  thousand on the way, the pecuniary game was small. His object was,
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  however, to be victorious, and not to win money. He divided the
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  one thousand pounds that remained between Passepartout and the unfortunate fix, against whom he
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  cherished no grudge. He deducted, however, from Passepartout's share, the cost
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  of the gas which had burned in his room for nineteen hundred and twenty hours,
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  for the sake of regularity. That evening, mister Fogg, as tranquil
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  and phlegmatic as ever, said to Aouda, is our marriage still agreeable to
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  you? Mister Fogg replied she it is for me to ask that question.
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  You were ruined, but now you are rich again. Pardon me, madam,
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  My fortune belongs to you. If you had not suggested our marriage,
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  my servant would not have gone to the Reverend Samuel Wilson's I should not have
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  been apprized of my error, and dear mister Fogg, said the young woman.
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  Dear Aouda, replied Phileas Fogg. It need not be said that the
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  marriage took place forty eight hours after and that Passepartout, glowing and dazzling,
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  gave the bride away. Had he not saved her? And was he not
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  entitled to this honor? The next day, as soon as it was light,
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  Passepartout rapped vigorously at his master's door. Mister Fogg opened it and asked,
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  what's the matter, Passpartout? What is it, sir? Why I've
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  just this instant found doubt? What that we might have made the tour of
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  the world in only seventy eight days? No doubt returned mister Fogg by not
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  crossing India. But if I had not crossed India, I should not have
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  saved Aouda. She would not have been my wife. And mister Fogg quietly
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  shut the door. Phileas Fogg had won his wager and had made his journey
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  around the world in eighty days. To do this, he had employed every
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  means of conveyance, steamers, railways, carriages, yachts, trading vessels,
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  sledges, elephants. The eccentric gentleman had throughout displayed all his marvelous qualities of
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  coolness and exactitude. But what then, what had he really gained by all
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  this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey?
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  Nothing, say you, perhaps so, nothing but a charming woman who,
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  strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men. Truly,
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  would you not, for less than that make the tour around the world?
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  End of chapter and of story.