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35 - Around The World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne · Classic Adventure Books Library

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  Chapter thirty five, in which Phileas Fogg does not have to repeat his orders
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  to Passepartout twice. The dwellers in saddle Row would have been surprised the next
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  day if they had been told that Phileas Fogg had returned home. His doors
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  and windows were still closed. No appearance of change was visible. After leaving
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  the station, mister Fogg gave passpartout instructions to purchase some provisions, and quietly
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  went to his domicile. He bore his misfortune, with his habitual tranquility ruined,
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  and by the blundering of the detective. After having steadily traversed that long
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  journey, overcome a hundred obstacles, brave many dangers, and still found time
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  to do some good on his way, to fail near the goal by a
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  sudden event which he could not have foreseen, and against which he was unarmed.
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  It was terrible, but a few pounds were left of the large sum
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  he had carried with him. There only remained of his fortune the twenty thousand
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  pounds deposited at bearings, and this amount he owed to his friends of the
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  Reform Club. So great had been the expense of his tour that even had
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  he won, it would not have enriched him. And it is probable that
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  he had not sought to enrich himself, being a man who rather laid wages
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  for honor's sake than for the stake proposed. But this wager totally ruined him.
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  Mister Fogg's course, however, was fully decided upon he knew what remained
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  for him to do. A room in the house in savle Row was set
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  apart for auDA, who was overwhelmed with grief at her protector's misfortune. From
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  the words which mister Fogg dropped, she saw that he was meditating some serious
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  project. Knowing that Englishmen governed by a fixed idea sometimes resort to the desperate
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  EXAs speedient of suicide, Passpartu kept a narrow watch upon his master, though
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  he carefully concealed the appearance of so doing. First of all, the worthy
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  fellow had gone up to his room and had extinguished the gas burner, which
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  had been burning for eighty days. He had found in the letter box a
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  bill from the gas company, and he thought it more than time to put
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  a stop to this expense, which he had been doomed to bear. The
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  night passed, mister Fogg went to bed, but did he sleep. Aouda
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  did not once close her eyes. Passpartou watched all night like a faithful dog
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  at his master's door. Mister Fogg called him in the morning and told him
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  to get Aouda's breakfast and a cup of tea and a chop for himself.
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  He desired Aouda to excuse him from breakfast and dinner, as his time would
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  be absorbed all day in putting his affairs to rights. In the evening,
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  he would ask permission to have a few moments conversation with the young lady.
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  Passepartout, having received his orders, had nothing to do but obey them.
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  He looked at his imperturbable master and could scarcely bring his mind to leave him.
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  His heart was full and his conscience tortured by remorse, for he accused
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  himself more bitterly than ever, of being the cause of the irretrievable disaster.
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  Yes, if he had warned mister Fogg and had betrayed fixed his projects to
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  him, his master would certainly not have given the detective passage to Liverpool.
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  And then Passepartout could hold in no longer my master, mister Fogg he cried,
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  why do you not curse me? It was my fault that I blame.
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  No one returned Phileas Fogg, with perfect calmness. Go passepartout the room
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  and went to find Aouda, to whom he delivered his master's message. Madam,
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  he added, I can do nothing myself nothing. I have no influence
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  over my master. But you, perhaps what influence could I have? Replied
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  Aouda. Mister Fogg is influenced by no one. Has he ever understood that
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  my gratitude to him is overflowing? Has he ever read my heart? My
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  friend? He must not be left alone an instant? You say he is
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  going to speak with me this evening, Yes, madam, probably to arrange
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  for your protection and comfort in England we shall see, replied Aouda, becoming
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  suddenly pensive. Throughout this day Sunday, the house in tsavo Row was as
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  if uninhabited, and Phileas Fogg, for the first time since he had lived
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  in that house, did not set out for for his club when Westminster clock
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  struck half past eleven. Why should he present himself at the reform His friends
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  no longer expected him there, as Phileas Fogg had not appeared in the saloon
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  on the evening before Saturday, the twenty first of December, at a quarter
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  before nine, he had lost his wager. It was not even necessary that
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  he should go to his banker's for the twenty thousand pounds, for his antagonists
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  already had his check in their hands, and they had only to fill it
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  out and send it to the bearings to have the amount transferred to their credit.
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  Mister Fogg therefore had no reason for going out, and so he remained
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  at home. He shut himself up in his room and busied himself putting his
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  affairs in order. Passepartout, continually ascended and descended the stairs. The hours
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  were long for him. He listened at his master's door and looked through the
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  keyhole, as if he had a perfect right to do so, and as
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  if he feared that something terrible might happen at any moment. Sometimes he thought
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  of Fix, but no longer in anger. Fix, like all the world,
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  had been mistaken in Phileas Fogg, and had only done his duty in
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  tracking and arresting him while he passepartout. This thought haunted him, and he
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  never ceased cursing his miserable folly. Finding himself too wretched to remain alone,
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  he knocked at Aouda's door, went into her room, seated himself without speaking,
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  in a corner, and looked ruefully at the young woman. auDA was
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  still pensive. About half past seven in the evening, mister Fogg sent to
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  know if Aouda would receive him, and in a few moments he found himself
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  alone with her. Phileas Fogg took a chair and sat down near the fireplace
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  opposite Ouda. No emotion was visible on it face. Fogg returned, was
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  exactly the fog who had gone away. There was the same calm, the
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  same impassibility. He sat several minutes without speaking, then bending his eyes on
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  aouda Madam, said he will you pardon me for bringing you to England?
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  I, mister Fogg, replied Ouda, checking the pulsations of her heart.
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  Please let me finish, returned mister Fogg. When I decided to bring you
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  far away from the country which was so unsafe for you, I was rich
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  and counted on putting a portion of my fortune at your disposal. Then your
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  existence would have been free and happy. But now I am ruined. I
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  know it mister Fogg, replied Aouda, and I ask you in my turn,
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  will you forgive me for having followed you, and who knows, for
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  having perhaps delayed you and thus contributed to your ruin. Madam. You could
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  not remain in India, and your safety could only be assured by bringing you
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  to such a distance that your persecutors could not take you. So, mister
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  Fogg resumed, Aouda, not content with rescuing me from a terrible death,
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  you thought yourself bound to secure my comfort in a foreign land, Yes,
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  madam, but circumstances have been against me. Still I beg to place the
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  little I have left at your service. But what will become of you,
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  mister Fogg? As for me, madam, replied the gentleman coldly, I
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  have need of nothing. But how do you look upon the fate, sir,
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  which awaits you? As I am in the habit of doing. At
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  least, said Aouda. Want should not overtake a man like you. Your
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  friends. I have no friends, madam. Your relatives, I have no
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  longer any relatives. I pity you, then, mister Fogg, for solitude
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  is a sad thing with no heart to which to confide Your griefs, they
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  say, though that misery itself shared by two sympathetic souls, may be borne
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  with patience. They say so, madam, mister Fogg, said Aouda,
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  rising and seizing his hand, do you wish at once a kinswoman and friend?
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  Will you have me for your wife? Mister Fogg at this rose in
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  his turn. There was an unwonted light in his eyes, and a slight
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  trembling of his lips. Aouda looked into his face. The sincerity, rectitude,
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  firmness, and sweetness of this soft glance of a noble woman who could
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  dare all to save him, to whom she owed all, at first astonished,
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  then penetrated him. He shut his eyes for an instant, as if
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  to avoid her look. When he opened them again, I love you,
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  he said, simply, Yes, by all that is holiest, I love
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  you, and I am entirely yours. Ah, cried Aouda, pressing her
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  hand to her heart. Passparteau was summoned and appeared immediately. Mister Fogg still
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  held Aouda's hand in his own. Passepartout understood, and his big round face
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  became as radiant as the tropical sun. At it Seneth. Mister Fogg asked
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  him if it was not too late to notify the Reverend Samuel Wilson of mary
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  le Bone Parrish that evening. Passpartieu smiled his most genial smile and said,
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  never too late. It was five minutes past eight. Will it be for
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  tomorrow Monday? For tomorrow Monday, said mister Fogg, turning to AOUDA Yes,
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  for tomorrow Monday, she replied. Passepartout hurried off as fast as his
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  legs could carry him. End of chapter