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15 - Around The World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne · Science Fiction Books - Daily

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  Speaker 1: Chapter fifteen, in which the bag of bank notes disgorgeous
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  Speaker 1: some thousands of pounds more. The train entered the station,
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  Speaker 1: and Passepartout, jumping out first, was followed by mister Fogg,
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  Speaker 1: who assisted his fair companion to descend. Phileas Fogg intended
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  Speaker 1: to proceed at once to the Hong Kong steamer in
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  Speaker 1: order to get Aouda comfortably settled for the voyage. He
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  Speaker 1: was unwilling to leave her while they were still on
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  Speaker 1: dangerous ground. Just as he was leaving the station, a
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  Speaker 1: policeman came up to him and said, mister Phileas Fogg,
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  Speaker 1: I am he is this man your servant, added the policeman,
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  Speaker 1: pointing to Passepartout, Yes, be so good both of you
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  Speaker 1: as to follow me. Mister Fogg betrayed no surprise whatever.
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  Speaker 1: The policeman was a representative of the law, and law
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  Speaker 1: is sacred to an Englishman. Passepartout tried to reason about
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  Speaker 1: the matter, but the policeman tapped him with his stick,
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  Speaker 1: and mister Fogg made him a signal to obey. May
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  Speaker 1: this young lady go with us, asked he she may,
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  Speaker 1: replied the policeman mister Fogg. Aouda and Passepartout were conducted
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  Speaker 1: in a palkigawi, a sort of four wheeled carriage drawn
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  Speaker 1: by two horses, in which they took their places and
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  Speaker 1: were driven away. No one spoke during the twenty minutes
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  Speaker 1: which elapsed before they reached their destination. They first passed
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  Speaker 1: through the blacktown, with its narrow streets, its miserable, dirty huts,
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  Speaker 1: and squalid population, then through the European town, which presented
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  Speaker 1: a relief in its bright brick mansions, shaded by cocoa
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  Speaker 1: nut trees and bristling with masts, where, although it was
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  Speaker 1: early morning, elegantly dressed horsemen and handsome equipages were passing
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  Speaker 1: back and forth. The carrie stopped before a modest looking house,
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  Speaker 1: which however, did not have the appearance of a private mansion.
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  Speaker 1: The policeman, having requested his prisoners for so truly they
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  Speaker 1: might be called to descend, conducted them into a room
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  Speaker 1: with barred windows, and said you will appear before Judge
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  Speaker 1: Obadiah at half past eight. He then retired and closed
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  Speaker 1: the door. Why we are prisoners, exclaimed Passepartout, falling into
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  Speaker 1: a chair. Aouda with an emotion she tried to conceal
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  Speaker 1: said to mister Fogg, Sir, you must leave me to
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  Speaker 1: my fate. It is on my account that you receive
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  Speaker 1: this treatment. It is for having saved me. Phileas Fogg
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  Speaker 1: contented himself with saying that it was impossible, it was
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  Speaker 1: quite unlikely that he should be arrested for preventing a settee.
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  Speaker 1: The complainants would not dare present themselves with such a charge.
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  Speaker 1: There was some mistake. Moreover, he would not, in any
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  Speaker 1: event abandoned Aouda, but would escort her to Hong Kong.
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  Speaker 1: But the steamer leaves at noon, observed Passepartout nervously. We
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  Speaker 1: shall be on board by noon, replied his master placidly.
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  Speaker 1: It was said so positively that Passepartout could not help
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  Speaker 1: muttering to himself, parbleu, that's certain before noon we shall
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  Speaker 1: be on board. But he was by no means reassured.
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  Speaker 1: At half past eight, the door opened, The policeman appeared, and,
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  Speaker 1: requesting them to follow him, led the way to an
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  Speaker 1: adjoining hall. It was evidently a court room, and a
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  Speaker 1: crowd of Europeans and natives already occupied the rear of
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  Speaker 1: the apartment. Mister Fogg and his two companions took their
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  Speaker 1: places on a bench opposite the desks of the magistrate
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  Speaker 1: and his clerk. Immediately after, Judge Obadiah, a fat round man,
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  Speaker 1: followed by the clerk, entered seated to take down a
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  Speaker 1: wig which was hanging on a nail, and put it
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  Speaker 1: hurriedly on his head. The first case said. He then,
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  Speaker 1: putting his hand to his head, he exclaimed, he this
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  Speaker 1: is not my wig. Know your worship, returned the clerk,
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  Speaker 1: It is mine, my dear mister Oysterpuff. How can a
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  Speaker 1: judge give a wise sentence in a clerk's wig? The
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  Speaker 1: whigs were exchanged. Passepartout was getting nervous for the hands
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  Speaker 1: on the face of the big clock over. The judge
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  Speaker 1: seemed to go around with terrible rapidity, the first case
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  Speaker 1: repeated Judge Obadiah. Phileas Fogg demanded, Oysterpuff. I am here,
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  Speaker 1: replied mister Fogg. Passepartout Braison, responded Passepartout Good, said the judge,
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  Speaker 1: you have been looked for prisoners for two days on
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  Speaker 1: the trains from Bombay. But of what are we accused,
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  Speaker 1: asked Passepartout, impatiently, you are about to be informed. I
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  Speaker 1: am an English subject, Sir said mister Fogg, and I
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  Speaker 1: have the right. Have you been ill treated? Not at all?
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  Speaker 1: Very well? Let the complainants come in. A door was
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  Speaker 1: swung open by order of the judge, and three Indian
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  Speaker 1: priests entered. That's it, muttered Passepartout. These are the rogues
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  Speaker 1: who are going to burn our young lady. The priest
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  Speaker 1: took their places in front of the judge, and the
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  Speaker 1: clerk proceeded to read in a loud voice a complaint
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  Speaker 1: of sacrilege against Phileas Fogg and his servant, who were
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  Speaker 1: accused of having violated a place held consecrated by the
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  Speaker 1: Brahmin religion. You hear the charge, asked the judge. Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 1: replied mister Fogg, consulting his watch, and I admit it.
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  Speaker 1: You admit it, I admit it, and I wished to
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  Speaker 1: hear these priests admit in their turn what they were
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  Speaker 1: going to do at the Pagoda of Pilagi. The priest
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  Speaker 1: looked at each other. They did not seem to understand
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  Speaker 1: what was said. Yes, cried Passepartout warmly, at the Pagoda
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  Speaker 1: of Pilagi, where they were on the point of burning
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  Speaker 1: their victim. The judge stared with astonishment, and the priests
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  Speaker 1: were stupefied. What victim said Judge Obadiah Burn, whom in
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  Speaker 1: Bombay itself, Bombay, cried Passepartout. Certainly, we're not talking in
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  Speaker 1: the pagoda of Pilagi, but of the pagoda of Malabar
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  Speaker 1: Hill at Bombay. And as a proof, added the clerk,
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  Speaker 1: here are the desecrator's very shoes, what he left behind him.
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  Speaker 1: Whereupon he placed a pair of shoes on his desk.
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  Speaker 1: My shoes, cried Passepartout in his surprise, permitting this prudent
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  Speaker 1: exclamation to escape him. The confusion of master and man,
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  Speaker 1: who had quite forgotten the affair at Bombay, for which
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  Speaker 1: they were now detained at Calcutta, may be imagined fixed.
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  Speaker 1: The detective had foreseen the advantage which Passepartout's escapade gave him, and,
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  Speaker 1: delaying his departure for twelve hours, had consulted the priests
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  Speaker 1: of Malabar Hill, knowing that the English authorities dealt very
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  Speaker 1: severely with this kind of misdemeanor. He promised them a
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  Speaker 1: goodly sum in damages and sent them forward to Calcutta
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  Speaker 1: by the next train. Owing to the delay caused by
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  Speaker 1: the rescue of the young widow, Fix and the priests
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  Speaker 1: reached the Indian capital before mister Fogg and his servant,
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  Speaker 1: the magistrates having been already warned by a dispatch to
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  Speaker 1: arrest them should they arrive. Fix's disappointment when he learned
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  Speaker 1: that Phileas Fogg had not made his appearance in Calcutta
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  Speaker 1: may be imagined he made up his mind that the
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  Speaker 1: robber had stopped somewhere on the route and taken refuge
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  Speaker 1: in the southern provinces. For twenty four hours, Fix watched
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  Speaker 1: the station with feverish anxiety. At last, he was rewarded
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  Speaker 1: by seeing mister Fogg and Passepartout arrive, accompanied by a
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  Speaker 1: young woman whose presence he was wholly at a loss
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  Speaker 1: to explain. He hastened for a policeman, and this was
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  Speaker 1: how the party came to be arrested and brought before
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  Speaker 1: Judge Obadiah. Had Passepartout been a little less preoccupied, he
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  Speaker 1: would have espied the detective ensconced in a corner of
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  Speaker 1: the court room, watching the proceedings with an interest easily understood,
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  Speaker 1: for the warrant had failed to reach him at Calcutta,
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  Speaker 1: as it had done at Bombay and Suez. Judge Obadiah
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  Speaker 1: had unfortunately caught Passepartout's rash exclamation, which the poor fellow
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  Speaker 1: would have given the world to recall. The facts are admitted,
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  Speaker 1: asked the judge admitted, replied mister Fogg coldly. Inasmuch resumed
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  Speaker 1: the Judge, as the English law protects equally and sternly
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  Speaker 1: the religions of the Indian people, and as the man
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  Speaker 1: Passepartout has admitted that he violated the sacred pagoda of
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  Speaker 1: Malabar Hill at Bombay on the twentieth October, I condemned
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  Speaker 1: the said Passepartout to imprisonment for fifteen days and a
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  Speaker 1: fine of three hundred pounds. Three hundred pounds, cried Passepartout,
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  Speaker 1: startled at the largeness of the sum silence, shouted the constable.
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  Speaker 1: And inasmuch continued the judge, as it is not proved
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  Speaker 1: that the act was not done by the connivance of
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  Speaker 1: the master with the servant, and as the master in
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  Speaker 1: any case must be held responsible for the acts of
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  Speaker 1: his paid servant, I condemn Phileas Fogg to a week's
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  Speaker 1: imprisonment and a fine of one hundred and fifty pounds.
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  Speaker 1: Fix rubbed his hands softly with satisfaction. If Phileas Fogg
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  Speaker 1: could be detained in Calcutta a week, it would be
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  Speaker 1: more than time for the warrant to arrive. Passepartout was stupefied.
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  Speaker 1: This sentence ruined his master, a wager of twenty thousand
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  Speaker 1: pounds lost, because he, like a precious fool, had gone
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  Speaker 1: into that abominable pagoda. Phileas Fogg, as self composed as
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  Speaker 1: if the judgment did not in the least concern him,
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  Speaker 1: did not even lift his eyebrows while it was being pronounced.
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  Speaker 1: Just as the clerk was calling the next case, he
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  Speaker 1: rose and said, I offer bail. You have that right,
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  Speaker 1: returned the judge. Fix's blood ran cold, but he resumed
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  Speaker 1: his composure when he heard the judge announce that the
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  Speaker 1: bail required for each prisoner would be one thousand pounds.
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  Speaker 1: I will pay it at once, said mister Fogg, taking
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  Speaker 1: a roll of bank bills from the carpet bag which
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  Speaker 1: Passepartout had had by him, and placing them on the
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  Speaker 1: clerk's desk. The sum will be restored to you upon
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  Speaker 1: your release from prison, said the judge. Meanwhile, you are
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  Speaker 1: liberated on bail, come, said Phileas Fogg to his servant.
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  Speaker 1: But let them at least give me back my shoes,
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  Speaker 1: cried Passepartout angrily. Ah these are pretty dear shoes, he muttered,
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  Speaker 1: as they were handed to him, more than a thousand
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  Speaker 1: pounds apiece. Besides, they'd pinch my feet. Mister Fogg, offering
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  Speaker 1: his arm to Aouda, then departed, followed by the crestfall
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  Speaker 1: in passepartout. Fix still nourished hopes that the robber would not,
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  Speaker 1: after all leave the two thousand pounds behind him, but
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  Speaker 1: would decide to serve out his week in jail, and
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  Speaker 1: issued forth on mister Fogg's traces. That gentleman took a carriage,
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  Speaker 1: and the party were soon landed on one of the keys.
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  Speaker 1: The rangoon was moored half a mile off in the harbor,
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  Speaker 1: its signal of departure hoisted at the masthead. Eleven o'clock
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  Speaker 1: was striking. Mister Fogg was an hour in advance of time.
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  Speaker 1: Fix saw them leave the carriage and push off in
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  Speaker 1: a boat for the steamer, and stamped his feet with disappointment.
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  Speaker 1: The rascal is off after all, he exclaimed. Two thousand
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  Speaker 1: pounds sacrificed. He's as prodigal as a thief. I'll follow
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  Speaker 1: him to the end of the world if necessary, but
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  Speaker 1: at the rate he is going on, the stolen money
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  Speaker 1: will soon be exhausted. The detective was not far wrong
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  Speaker 1: in making this conjecture, since leaving London, what with traveling expenses, bribes,
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  Speaker 1: the purchase of the elephant, bales and fines, mister Fogg
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  Speaker 1: had already spent more than five thousand pounds on the way,
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  Speaker 1: and the percentage of the sum recovered from the bank
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  Speaker 1: robber promised to the detectives was rapidly diminishing. End of
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  Speaker 1: chapter M