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Around the World in 80
Days
Jules Verne
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Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No
...
He was one of the most noticeable members of the
Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid
attracting attention; an enigmatical personage, about
whom little was known, except that he was a polished
man of the world
...
Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether
Phileas Fogg was a Londoner
...
He certainly was not a manufacturer;
nor was he a merchant or a gentleman farmer
...
He belonged, in fact, to none of the numerous
societies which swarm in the English capital, from the
Harmonic to that of the Entomologists, founded mainly
for the purpose of abolishing pernicious insects
...
The way in which he got admission to this exclusive
club was simple enough
...
His cheques were regularly paid at
sight from his account current, which was always flush
...
But those who
knew him best could not imagine how he had made his
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fortune, and Mr
...
He was not lavish, nor, on the
contrary, avaricious; for, whenever he knew that money
was needed for a noble, useful, or benevolent purpose, he
supplied it quietly and sometimes anonymously
...
He talked very
little, and seemed all the more mysterious for his taciturn
manner
...
Had he travelled? It was likely, for no one seemed to
know the world more familiarly; there was no spot so
secluded that he did not appear to have an intimate
acquaintance with it
...
He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit
...
Those who
were honoured by a better acquaintance with him than
the rest, declared that nobody could pretend to have ever
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seen him anywhere else
...
He often won at this game,
which, as a silent one, harmonised with his nature; but his
winnings never went into his purse, being reserved as a
fund for his charities
...
Fogg played, not to win, but for
the sake of playing
...
Phileas Fogg was not known to have either wife or
children, which may happen to the most honest people;
either relatives or near friends, which is certainly more
unusual
...
A single domestic sufficed to
serve him
...
He never used the
cosy chambers which the Reform provides for its favoured
members
...
When
he chose to take a walk it was with a regular step in the
entrance hall with its mosaic flooring, or in the circular
gallery with its dome supported by twenty red porphyry
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Ionic columns, and illumined by blue painted windows
...
If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be
confessed that there is something good in eccentricity
...
The habits of its occupant
were such as to demand but little from the sole domestic,
but Phileas Fogg required him to be almost superhumanly
prompt and regular
...
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Phileas Fogg was seated squarely in his armchair, his
feet close together like those of a grenadier on parade, his
hands resting on his knees, his body straight, his head
erect; he was steadily watching a complicated clock which
indicated the hours, the minutes, the seconds, the days, the
months, and the years
...
Fogg would, according to his daily habit, quit Saville
Row, and repair to the Reform
...
‘The new servant,’ said he
...
‘You are a Frenchman, I believe,’ asked Phileas Fogg,
‘and your name is John?’
‘Jean, if monsieur pleases,’ replied the newcomer, ‘Jean
Passepartout, a surname which has clung to me because I
have a natural aptness for going out of one business into
another
...
I’ve been an itinerant
singer, a circus-rider, when I used to vault like Leotard,
and dance on a rope like Blondin
...
But I quitted France five years
ago, and, wishing to taste the sweets of domestic life, took
service as a valet here in England
...
’
‘Passepartout suits me,’ responded Mr
...
‘You are
well recommended to me; I hear a good report of you
...
’
‘Good! What time is it?’
‘Twenty-two minutes after eleven,’ returned
Passepartout, drawing an enormous silver watch from the
depths of his pocket
...
Fogg
...
No matter; it’s enough
to mention the error
...
m
...
’
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Phileas Fogg got up, took his hat in his left hand, put it
on his head with an automatic motion, and went off
without a word
...
He heard it shut again; it was his
predecessor, James Forster, departing in his turn
...
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Chapter II
IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT
IS CONVINCED THAT HE HAS
AT LAST FOUND HIS IDEAL
‘Faith,’ muttered Passepartout, somewhat flurried, ‘I’ve
seen people at Madame Tussaud’s as lively as my new
master!’
Madame Tussaud’s ‘people,’ let it be said, are of wax,
and are much visited in London; speech is all that is
wanting to make them human
...
Fogg, Passepartout
had been carefully observing him
...
His
countenance possessed in the highest degree what
physiognomists call ‘repose in action,’ a quality of those
who act rather than talk
...
Fogg seemed a perfect type of that English
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composure which Angelica Kauffmann has so skilfully
represented on canvas
...
Phileas Fogg was, indeed, exactitude personified, and this
was betrayed even in the expression of his very hands and
feet; for in men, as well as in animals, the limbs themselves
are expressive of the passions
...
He never took one step too many, and always
went to his destination by the shortest cut; he made no
superfluous gestures, and was never seen to be moved or
agitated
...
He lived alone, and, so to speak, outside of every social
relation; and as he knew that in this world account must
be taken of friction, and that friction retards, he never
rubbed against anybody
...
Since he had abandoned his own country for England,
taking service as a valet, he had in vain searched for a
master after his own heart
...
His eyes
were blue, his complexion rubicund, his figure almost
portly and well-built, his body muscular, and his physical
powers fully developed by the exercises of his younger
days
...
It would be rash to predict how Passepartout’s lively
nature would agree with Mr
...
It was impossible to
tell whether the new servant would turn out as absolutely
methodical as his master required; experience alone could
solve the question
...
But he could not take root in any of
these; with chagrin, he found his masters invariably
whimsical and irregular, constantly running about the
country, or on the look-out for adventure
...
Passepartout, desirous of respecting the gentleman whom
he served, ventured a mild remonstrance on such conduct;
which, being ill-received, he took his leave
...
Phileas Fogg was looking for a servant, and that his
life was one of unbroken regularity, that he neither
travelled nor stayed from home overnight, he felt sure that
this would be the place he was after
...
At half-past eleven, then, Passepartout found himself
alone in the house in Saville Row
...
So clean, well-arranged, solemn a mansion pleased him ; it
seemed to him like a snail’s shell, lighted and warmed by
gas, which sufficed for both these purposes
...
Electric bells and speaking-tubes afforded
communication with the lower stories; while on the
mantel stood an electric clock, precisely like that in Mr
...
‘That’s good, that’ll do,’ said Passepartout to
himself
...
It comprised all that was
required of the servant, from eight in the morning, exactly
at which hour Phileas Fogg rose, till half-past eleven,
when he left the house for the Reform Club—all the
details of service, the tea and toast at twenty-three minutes
past eight, the shaving-water at thirty-seven minutes past
nine, and the toilet at twenty minutes before ten
...
m
...
Mr
...
Each pair of trousers, coat, and vest bore a
number, indicating the time of year and season at which
they were in turn to be laid out for wearing; and the same
system was applied to the master’s shoes
...
There was no study, nor were there books,
which would have been quite useless to Mr
...
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sized safe stood in his bedroom, constructed so as to defy
fire as well as burglars; but Passepartout found neither arms
nor hunting weapons anywhere; everything betrayed the
most tranquil and peaceable habits
...
Fogg and I! What a domestic
and regular gentleman! A real machine; well, I don’t mind
serving a machine
...
He repaired at once to the dining-room, the nine
windows of which open upon a tasteful garden, where the
trees were already gilded with an autumn colouring; and
took his place at the habitual table, the cover of which had
already been laid for him
...
He rose at thirteen minutes
to one, and directed his steps towards the large hall, a
sumptuous apartment adorned with lavishly-framed
paintings
...
The perusal of this paper
absorbed Phileas Fogg until a quarter before four, whilst
the Standard, his next task, occupied him till the dinner
hour
...
Fogg
re-appeared in the reading-room and sat down to the Pall
Mall at twenty minutes before six
...
They
were Mr
...
‘Well, Ralph,’ said Thomas Flanagan, ‘what about that
robbery?’
‘Oh,’ replied Stuart, ‘the Bank will lose the money
...
Skilful detectives have been sent
to all the principal ports of America and the Continent,
and he’ll be a clever fellow if he slips through their
fingers
...
‘In the first place, he is no robber at all,’ returned
Ralph, positively
...
’
‘Perhaps he’s a manufacturer, then
...
’
It was Phileas Fogg, whose head now emerged from
behind his newspapers, who made this remark
...
The affair
which formed its subject, and which was town talk, had
occurred three days before at the Bank of England
...
Of
course, he could not have his eyes everywhere
...
There are neither
guards nor gratings to protect its treasures; gold, silver,
banknotes are freely exposed, at the mercy of the first
comer
...
He took it up, scrutinised it, passed it to
his neighbour, he to the next man, and so on until the
ingot, going from hand to hand, was transferred to the end
of a dark entry; nor did it return to its place for half an
hour
...
But in the present instance things had not gone
so smoothly
...
As soon as the robbery was discovered,
picked detectives hastened off to Liverpool, Glasgow,
Havre, Suez, Brindisi, New York, and other ports,
inspired by the proffered reward of two thousand pounds,
and five per cent
...
Detectives were also charged with narrowly watching
those who arrived at or left London by rail, and a judicial
examination was at once entered upon
...
On the day of the robbery a welldressed gentleman of polished manners, and with a wellto-do air, had been observed going to and fro in the
paying room where the crime was committed
...
The papers and
clubs were full of the affair, and everywhere people were
discussing the probabilities of a successful pursuit; and the
Reform Club was especially agitated, several of its
members being Bank officials
...
But Stuart was far from sharing this confidence;
and, as they placed themselves at the whist-table, they
continued to argue the matter
...
As the game proceeded the conversation ceased, excepting
between the rubbers, when it revived again
...
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‘Well, but where can he fly to?’ asked Ralph
...
’
‘Pshaw!’
‘Where could he go, then?’
‘Oh, I don’t know that
...
’
‘It was once,’ said Phileas Fogg, in a low tone
...
The discussion fell during the rubber, after which
Stuart took up its thread
...
‘I agree with Mr
...
The world has grown smaller, since a man can now go
round it ten times more quickly than a hundred years ago
...
’
‘And also why the thief can get away more easily
...
Stuart,’ said Phileas Fogg
...
So, because you can go round it in three
months—‘
‘In eighty days,’ interrupted Phileas Fogg
...
‘Only
eighty days, now that the section between Rothal and
Allahabad, on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, has
been opened
...
7 days
From Suez to Bombay, by steamer
...
3 ‘
From Calcutta to Hong Kong, by steamer
...
6
‘
From Yokohama to San Francisco, by steamer
...
7 ‘
From New York to London, by steamer and rail
...
80 days
...
‘But that doesn’t take into
account bad weather, contrary winds, shipwrecks, railway
accidents, and so on
...
‘But suppose the Hindoos or Indians pull up the rails,’
replied Stuart; ‘suppose they stop the trains, pillage the
luggage-vans, and scalp the passengers!’
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‘All included,’ calmly retorted Fogg; adding, as he
threw down the cards, ‘Two trumps
...
Fogg, but
practically—‘
‘Practically also, Mr
...
’
‘I’d like to see you do it in eighty days
...
Shall we go?’
‘Heaven preserve me! But I would wager four thousand
pounds that such a journey, made under these conditions,
is impossible
...
Fogg
...
’
‘I should like nothing better
...
Only I warn you that I shall do it at your
expense
...
‘Come, let’s go on
with the game
...
‘There’s a
false deal
...
‘Well, Mr
...
’
‘Calm yourself, my dear Stuart,’ said Fallentin
...
’
‘When I say I’ll wager,’ returned Stuart, ‘I mean it
...
Fogg; and, turning to the others, he
continued: ‘I have a deposit of twenty thousand at Baring’s
which I will willingly risk upon it
...
‘Twenty
thousand pounds, which you would lose by a single
accidental delay!’
‘The unforeseen does not exist,’ quietly replied Phileas
Fogg
...
Fogg, eighty days are only the estimate of the
least possible time in which the journey can be made
...
’
‘But, in order not to exceed it, you must jump
mathematically from the trains upon the steamers, and
from the steamers upon the trains again
...
’
‘You are joking
...
‘I will bet twenty thousand pounds against
anyone who wishes that I will make the tour of the world
in eighty days or less; in nineteen hundred and twenty
hours, or a hundred and fifteen thousand two hundred
minutes
...
Stuart, Fallentin, Sullivan,
Flanagan, and Ralph, after consulting each other
...
Fogg
...
I will take it
...
‘This very evening,’ returned Phileas Fogg
...
m
...
Here is a cheque for the amount
...
He certainly did not bet to
win, and had only staked the twenty thousand pounds,
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half of his fortune, because he foresaw that he might have
to expend the other half to carry out this difficult, not to
say unattainable, project
...
The clock struck seven, and the party offered to
suspend the game so that Mr
...
‘I am quite ready now,’ was his tranquil response
...
’
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Chapter IV
IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG
ASTOUNDS PASSEPARTOUT,
HIS SERVANT
Having won twenty guineas at whist, and taken leave
of his friends, Phileas Fogg, at twenty-five minutes past
seven, left the Reform Club
...
Mr
...
It could not be he who was
called; it was not the right hour
...
Fogg, without raising his
voice
...
‘I’ve called you twice,’ observed his master
...
‘I know it; I don’t blame you
...
’
A puzzled grin overspread Passepartout’s round face;
clearly he had not comprehended his master
...
‘We are going round the
world
...
‘Round the world!’ he murmured
...
Fogg
...
’
‘But the trunks?’ gasped Passepartout, unconsciously
swaying his head from right to left
...
We’ll buy our clothes on the way
...
Make haste!’
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Passepartout tried to reply, but could not
...
Around the world in eighty days! Was his
master a fool? No
...
Perhaps they would go as far as Paris, and it would do his
eyes good to see Paris once more
...
Fogg
...
Fogg was quite ready
...
He took the carpet-bag, opened it,
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and slipped into it a goodly roll of Bank of England notes,
which would pass wherever he might go
...
‘Nothing, monsieur
...
’
‘Good! Take this carpet-bag,’ handing it to
Passepartout
...
’
Passepartout nearly dropped the bag, as if the twenty
thousand pounds were in gold, and weighed him down
...
The cab stopped
before the railway station at twenty minutes past eight
...
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Mr
...
I’m glad that I met you;’ and passed on
...
Two first-class tickets for Paris having been speedily
purchased, Mr
...
‘Well, gentlemen,’ said he, ‘I’m off, you see; and, if you
will examine my passport when I get back, you will be
able to judge whether I have accomplished the journey
agreed upon
...
Fogg,’ said
Ralph politely
...
’
‘You do not forget when you are due in London
again?’ asked Stuart
...
m
...
’
Phileas Fogg and his servant seated themselves in a firstclass carriage at twenty minutes before nine; five minutes
later the whistle screamed, and the train slowly glided out
of the station
...
Phileas Fogg, snugly ensconced in his corner, did not open
his lips
...
Just as the train was whirling through Sydenham,
Passepartout suddenly uttered a cry of despair
...
Fogg
...
Fogg, coolly; ‘it
will burn— at your expense
...
The news of the bet spread through the Reform Club,
and afforded an exciting topic of conversation to its
members
...
The boasted ‘tour of the world’ was
talked about, disputed, argued with as much warmth as if
the subject were another Alabama claim
...
The
Times, Standard, Morning Post, and Daily News, and
twenty other highly respectable newspapers scouted Mr
...
People in general thought him
a lunatic, and blamed his Reform Club friends for having
accepted a wager which betrayed the mental aberration of
its proposer
...
At
first some rash individuals, principally of the gentler sex,
espoused his cause, which became still more popular when
the Illustrated London News came out with his portrait,
copied from a photograph in the Reform Club
...
’
At last a long article appeared, on the 7th of October,
in the bulletin of the Royal Geographical Society, which
treated the question from every point of view, and
demonstrated the utter folly of the enterprise
...
A
miraculous agreement of the times of departure and
arrival, which was impossible, was absolutely necessary to
his success
...
This article made a great deal of noise, and, being
copied into all the papers, seriously depressed the
advocates of the rash tourist
...
Not only the members of
the Reform, but the general public, made heavy wagers
for or against Phileas Fogg, who was set down in the
betting books as if he were a race-horse
...
But five days after the
article in the bulletin of the Geographical Society
appeared, the demand began to subside: ‘Phileas Fogg’
declined
...
This noble
lord, who was fastened to his chair, would have given his
fortune to be able to make the tour of the world, if it took
ten years; and he bet five thousand pounds on Phileas
Fogg
...
’
The Fogg party dwindled more and more, everybody
was going against him, and the bets stood a hundred and
fifty and two hundred to one; and a week after his
departure an incident occurred which deprived him of
backers at any price
...
Rowan, Commissioner of Police, Scotland Yard:
I’ve found the bank robber, Phileas Fogg
...
Fix, Detective
...
The
polished gentleman disappeared to give place to the bank
robber
...
The mysterious habits of Phileas Fogg were
recalled; his solitary ways, his sudden departure; and it
seemed clear that, in undertaking a tour round the world
on the pretext of a wager, he had had no other end in
view than to elude the detectives, and throw them off his
track
...
m
...
The Mongolia plied regularly between
Brindisi and Bombay via the Suez Canal, and was one of
the fastest steamers belonging to the company, always
making more than ten knots an hour between Brindisi and
Suez, and nine and a half between Suez and Bombay
...
Lesseps, a fast-growing
town
...
The other was
a small, slight-built personage, with a nervous, intelligent
face, and bright eyes peering out from under eyebrows
which he was incessantly twitching
...
This was Fix, one of the detectives who had
been dispatched from England in search of the bank
robber; it was his task to narrowly watch every passenger
who arrived at Suez, and to follow up all who seemed to
be suspicious characters, or bore a resemblance to the
description of the criminal, which he had received two
days before from the police headquarters at London
...
‘So you say, consul,’ asked he for the twentieth time,
‘that this steamer is never behind time?’
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‘No, Mr
...
‘She was bespoken
yesterday at Port Said, and the rest of the way is of no
account to such a craft
...
’
‘Does she come directly from Brindisi?’
‘Directly from Brindisi; she takes on the Indian mails
there, and she left there Saturday at five p
...
Have
patience, Mr
...
But really, I don’t
see how, from the description you have, you will be able
to recognise your man, even if he is on board the
Mongolia
...
You must have a scent for
them, and a scent is like a sixth sense which combines
hearing, seeing, and smelling
...
’
‘I hope so, Mr
...
’
‘A magnificent robbery, consul; fifty-five thousand
pounds! We don’t often have such windfalls
...
Fix,’ said the consul, ‘I like your way of talking,
and hope you’ll succeed; but I fear you will find it far from
easy
...
Fellows who have
rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to
remain honest; otherwise they would be arrested off-hand
...
’
Mr
...
Little by little the scene on the quay became more
animated; sailors of various nations, merchants, shipbrokers, porters, fellahs, bustled to and fro as if the steamer
were immediately expected
...
The minarets of the town loomed above the
houses in the pale rays of the sun
...
A
number of fishing-smacks and coasting boats, some
retaining the fantastic fashion of ancient galleys, were
discernible on the Red Sea
...
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It was now half-past ten
...
‘She can’t be far off now,’ returned his companion
...
It is
thirteen hundred and ten miles from Suez to Aden, at the
other end of the Red Sea, and she has to take in a fresh
coal supply
...
’
‘Good!’ said Fix
...
He ought to know
that he would not be safe an hour in India, which is
English soil
...
An English criminal, you know, is always better
concealed in London than anywhere else
...
Fix, left alone, was more impatient than ever,
having a presentiment that the robber was on board the
Mongolia
...
But Fix’s reflections were soon
interrupted by a succession of sharp whistles, which
announced the arrival of the Mongolia
...
Soon her
gigantic hull appeared passing along between the banks,
and eleven o’clock struck as she anchored in the road
...
Fix took up a position, and carefully examined each
face and figure which made its appearance
...
Fix instinctively took the passport, and with a
rapid glance read the description of its bearer
...
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‘Is this your passport?’ asked he
...
’
‘And your master is—‘
‘He stayed on board
...
’
‘Oh, is that necessary?’
‘Quite indispensable
...
‘I’ll go and fetch my master, who won’t be much
pleased, however, to be disturbed
...
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Chapter VII
WHICH ONCE MORE
DEMONSTRATES THE
USELESSNESS OF PASSPORTS
AS AIDS TO DETECTIVES
The detective passed down the quay, and rapidly made
his way to the consul’s office, where he was at once
admitted to the presence of that official
...
’ And he narrated what had just passed
concerning the passport
...
Fix,’ replied the consul, ‘I shall not be sorry
to see the rascal’s face; but perhaps he won’t come here—
that is, if he is the person you suppose him to be
...
’
‘If he is as shrewd as I think he is, consul, he will
come
...
Passports are only good for annoying honest folks,
and aiding in the flight of rogues
...
’
‘Why not? If the passport is genuine I have no right to
refuse
...
’
‘Ah, that’s your look-out
...
The other, who was his master, held out his passport
with the request that the consul would do him the favour
to visa it
...
‘You are Mr
...
‘I am
...
’
‘You are from London?’
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‘Yes
...
’
‘Very good, sir
...
’
‘Very well, sir
...
Mr
...
‘Well?’ queried the detective
...
‘Possibly; but that is not the question
...
‘The servant
seems to me less mysterious than the master; besides, he’s a
Frenchman, and can’t help talking
...
’
Fix started off in search of Passepartout
...
Fogg, after leaving the consulate,
repaired to the quay, gave some orders to Passepartout,
went off to the Mongolia in a boat, and descended to his
cabin
...
45 p
...
‘Reached Paris, Thursday, October 3rd, at 7
...
m
...
40 a
...
‘Reached Turin by Mont
Cenis, Friday, October 4th, at 6
...
m
...
20 a
...
‘Arrived at Brindisi, Saturday, October
5th, at 4 p
...
‘Sailed on the Mongolia, Saturday, at 5 p
...
‘Reached Suez, Wednesday, October 9th, at 11 a
...
‘Total of hours spent, 158+; or, in days, six days and a
half
...
This
methodical record thus contained an account of
everything needed, and Mr
...
On this
Friday, October 9th, he noted his arrival at Suez, and
observed that he had as yet neither gained nor lost
...
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Chapter VIII
IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT
TALKS RATHER MORE,
PERHAPS, THAN IS PRUDENT
Fix soon rejoined Passepartout, who was lounging and
looking about on the quay, as if he did not feel that he, at
least, was obliged not to see anything
...
‘Thanks, yes, the passport is all right
...
So this is Suez?’
‘Yes
...
’
‘And in Africa?’
‘In Africa
...
‘Just think, monsieur,
I had no idea that we should go farther than Paris; and all
that I saw of Paris was between twenty minutes past seven
and twenty minutes before nine in the morning, between
the Northern and the Lyons stations, through the
windows of a car, and in a driving rain! How I regret not
having seen once more Pere la Chaise and the circus in
the Champs Elysees!’
‘You are in a great hurry, then?’
‘I am not, but my master is
...
We came away without trunks,
only with a carpet-bag
...
’
‘Really, monsieur, you are very kind
...
‘Above all,’ said he; ‘don’t let me lose the steamer
...
’
Passepartout pulled out his big watch
...
’
‘Your watch is slow
...
It’s a perfect chronometer, look you
...
‘You have kept London time,
which is two hours behind that of Suez
...
’
‘I regulate my watch? Never!’
‘Well, then, it will not agree with the sun
...
The sun
will be wrong, then!’
And the worthy fellow returned the watch to its fob
with a defiant gesture
...
’
‘But where is your master going?’
‘Always straight ahead
...
’
‘Round the world?’ cried Fix
...
That wouldn’t be
common sense
...
’
‘Ah! Mr
...
’
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‘Is he rich?’
‘No doubt, for he is carrying an enormous sum in
brand new banknotes with him
...
’
‘And you have known your master a long time?’
‘Why, no; I entered his service the very day we left
London
...
The hasty
departure from London soon after the robbery; the large
sum carried by Mr
...
He continued to pump
poor Passepartout, and learned that he really knew little or
nothing of his master, who lived a solitary existence in
London, was said to be rich, though no one knew whence
came his riches, and was mysterious and impenetrable in
his affairs and habits
...
‘Is Bombay far from here?’ asked Passepartout
...
It is a ten days’ voyage by sea
...
’
‘In Asia?’
‘Certainly
...
I have
calculated, monsieur, that I lose two shillings every four
and twenty hours, exactly sixpense more than I earn; and
you will understand that the longer our journey—‘
Did Fix pay any attention to Passepartout’s trouble
about the gas? It is not probable
...
Passepartout and he had now
reached the shop, where Fix left his companion to make
his purchases, after recommending him not to miss the
steamer, and hurried back to the consulate
...
‘Consul,’ said he, ‘I have no longer any doubt
...
He passes himself off as an odd stick who
is going round the world in eighty days
...
’
‘We’ll see about that,’ replied Fix
...
’
‘Why was this robber so anxious to prove, by the visa,
that he had passed through Suez?’
‘Why? I have no idea; but listen to me
...
‘In short,’ said the consul, ‘appearances are wholly
against this man
...
’
Having uttered these words with a cool, careless air, the
detective took leave of the consul, and repaired to the
telegraph office, whence he sent the dispatch which we
have seen to the London police office
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Chapter IX
IN WHICH THE RED SEA
AND THE INDIAN OCEAN
PROVE PROPITIOUS TO THE
DESIGNS OF PHILEAS FOGG
The distance between Suez and Aden is precisely
thirteen hundred and ten miles, and the regulations of the
company allow the steamers one hundred and thirty-eight
hours in which to traverse it
...
The greater part of the passengers from
Brindisi were bound for India some for Bombay, others
for Calcutta by way of Bombay, the nearest route thither,
now that a railway crosses the Indian peninsula
...
What with the military men, a number of rich
young Englishmen on their travels, and the hospitable
efforts of the purser, the time passed quickly on the
Mongolia
...
But the Red Sea is full of caprice, and often boisterous,
like most long and narrow gulfs
...
Then the ladies speedily
disappeared below; the pianos were silent; singing and
dancing suddenly ceased
...
What was Phileas Fogg doing all
this time? It might be thought that, in his anxiety, he
would be constantly watching the changes of the wind,
the disorderly raging of the billows—every chance, in
short, which might force the Mongolia to slacken her
speed, and thus interrupt his journey
...
Always the same impassible member of the Reform
Club, whom no incident could surprise, as unvarying as
the ship’s chronometers, and seldom having the curiosity
even to go upon the deck, he passed through the
memorable scenes of the Red Sea with cold indifference;
did not care to recognise the historic towns and villages
which, along its borders, raised their picturesque outlines
against the sky; and betrayed no fear of the dangers of the
Arabic Gulf, which the old historians always spoke of with
horror, and upon which the ancient navigators never
ventured without propitiating the gods by ample sacrifices
...
A tax-collector, on the way to his post at Goa; the
Rev
...
Fogg, played whist by the hour together in
absorbing silence
...
He rather enjoyed the voyage, for he was well fed and
well lodged, took a great interest in the scenes through
which they were passing, and consoled himself with the
delusion that his master’s whim would end at Bombay
...
‘If I am not mistaken,’ said he, approaching this person,
with his most amiable smile, ‘you are the gentleman who
so kindly volunteered to guide me at Suez?’
‘Ah! I quite recognise you
...
’
‘Monsieur Fix,’ resumed Passepartout, ‘I’m charmed to
find you on board
...
’
‘That’s capital! Have you made this trip before?’
‘Several times
...
’
‘Then you know India?’
‘Why yes,’ replied Fix, who spoke cautiously
...
Mosques, minarets, temples, fakirs,
pagodas, tigers, snakes, elephants! I hope you will have
ample time to see the sights
...
You see, a man of sound
sense ought not to spend his life jumping from a steamer
upon a railway train, and from a railway train upon a
steamer again, pretending to make the tour of the world in
eighty days! No; all these gymnastics, you may be sure,
will cease at Bombay
...
Fogg is getting on well?’ asked Fix, in the
most natural tone in the world
...
I eat like a famished ogre; it’s
the sea air
...
’
‘Never; he hasn’t the least curiosity
...
Passepartout, that this pretended
tour in eighty days may conceal some secret errand—
perhaps a diplomatic mission?’
‘Faith, Monsieur Fix, I assure you I know nothing
about it, nor would I give half a crown to find out
...
He frequently offered
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him a glass of whiskey or pale ale in the steamer bar-room,
which Passepartout never failed to accept with graceful
alacrity, mentally pronouncing Fix the best of good
fellows
...
Passepartout was ravished to behold this celebrated place,
and thought that, with its circular walls and dismantled
fort, it looked like an immense coffee-cup and saucer
...
This matter of fuelling
steamers is a serious one at such distances from the coalmines; it costs the Peninsular Company some eight
hundred thousand pounds a year
...
The Mongolia had still sixteen hundred and fifty miles
to traverse before reaching Bombay, and was obliged to
remain four hours at Steamer Point to coal up
...
Mr
...
The visa procured, Mr
...
He gazed with wonder upon the fortifications which make
this place the Gibraltar of the Indian Ocean, and the vast
cisterns where the English engineers were still at work,
two thousand years after the engineers of Solomon
...
‘I see that it is by no
means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something
new
...
m
...
She had a hundred and sixty-eight hours in which to reach
Bombay, and the sea was favourable, the wind being in
the north-west, and all sails aiding the engine
...
The trip
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was being accomplished most successfully, and
Passepartout was enchanted with the congenial companion
which chance had secured him in the person of the
delightful Fix
...
A range of hills lay against the sky in
the horizon, and soon the rows of palms which adorn
Bombay came distinctly into view
...
Phileas Fogg was in the act of finishing the thirty-third
rubber of the voyage, and his partner and himself having,
by a bold stroke, captured all thirteen of the tricks,
concluded this fine campaign with a brilliant victory
...
This was a gain to Phileas Fogg of
two days since his departure from London, and he calmly
entered the fact in the itinerary, in the column of gains
...
The British
Crown exercises a real and despotic dominion over the
larger portion of this vast country, and has a governorgeneral stationed at Calcutta, governors at Madras,
Bombay, and in Bengal, and a lieutenant-governor at
Agra
...
A considerable portion of India is still free
from British authority; and there are certain ferocious
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rajahs in the interior who are absolutely independent
...
It gradually annexed
province after province, purchasing them of the native
chiefs, whom it seldom paid, and appointed the governorgeneral and his subordinates, civil and military
...
The aspect of the country, as well as the
manners and distinctions of race, is daily changing
...
This railway does not run in a direct line across
India
...
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The general route of the Great Indian Peninsula
Railway is as follows: Leaving Bombay, it passes through
Salcette, crossing to the continent opposite Tannah, goes
over the chain of the Western Ghauts, runs thence northeast as far as Burhampoor, skirts the nearly independent
territory of Bundelcund, ascends to Allahabad, turns
thence eastwardly, meeting the Ganges at Benares, then
departs from the river a little, and, descending southeastward by Burdivan and the French town of
Chandernagor, has its terminus at Calcutta
...
m
...
Mr
...
As for the wonders of Bombay its famous city hall,
its splendid library, its forts and docks, its bazaars, mosques,
synagogues, its Armenian churches, and the noble pagoda
on Malabar Hill, with its two polygonal towers— he cared
not a straw to see them
...
Having transacted his business at the passport office,
Phileas Fogg repaired quietly to the railway station, where
he ordered dinner
...
Mr
...
He rang for the
landlord, and, on his appearance, said, fixing his clear eyes
upon him, ‘Is this rabbit, sir?’
‘Yes, my lord,’ the rogue boldly replied, ‘rabbit from
the jungles
...
That was a good time
...
Fogg quietly continued his dinner
...
Fogg, and his first
destination was the headquarters of the Bombay police
...
It had not reached the office;
indeed, there had not yet been time for it to arrive
...
This the
director refused, as the matter concerned the London
office, which alone could legally deliver the warrant
...
He did not doubt for a moment, any
more than Passepartout, that Phileas Fogg would remain
there, at least until it was time for the warrant to arrive
...
He
began to ask himself if this bet that Mr
...
It happened to be
the day of a Parsee festival
...
It is needless to say that
Passepartout watched these curious ceremonies with
staring eyes and gaping mouth, and that his countenance
was that of the greenest booby imaginable
...
At last, having seen the Parsee carnival
wind away in the distance, he was turning his steps
towards the station, when he happened to espy the
splendid pagoda on Malabar Hill, and was seized with an
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irresistible desire to see its interior
...
It may be said
here that the wise policy of the British Government
severely punishes a disregard of the practices of the native
religions
...
He looked up to behold three enraged
priests, who forthwith fell upon him; tore off his shoes,
and began to beat him with loud, savage exclamations
...
At five minutes before eight, Passepartout, hatless,
shoeless, and having in the squabble lost his package of
shirts and shoes, rushed breathlessly into the station
...
Fogg to the station, and
saw that he was really going to leave Bombay, was there,
upon the platform
...
Passepartout did not observe the detective, who stood in
an obscure corner; but Fix heard him relate his adventures
in a few words to Mr
...
‘I hope that this will not happen again,’ said Phileas
Fogg coldly, as he got into the train
...
Fix
was on the point of entering another carriage, when an
idea struck him which induced him to alter his plan
...
‘An offence has been
committed on Indian soil
...
’
Just then the locomotive gave a sharp screech, and the
train passed out into the darkness of the night
...
Among the passengers
were a number of officers, Government officials, and
opium and indigo merchants, whose business called them
to the eastern coast
...
This was Sir Francis Cromarty, one of
Mr
...
Sir Francis was a tall, fair
man of fifty, who had greatly distinguished himself in the
last Sepoy revolt
...
But Phileas Fogg, who was not
travelling, but only describing a circumference, took no
pains to inquire into these subjects; he was a solid body,
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traversing an orbit around the terrestrial globe, according
to the laws of rational mechanics
...
Sir Francis Cromarty had observed
the oddity of his travelling companion—although the only
opportunity he had for studying him had been while he
was dealing the cards, and between two rubbers—and
questioned himself whether a human heart really beat
beneath this cold exterior, and whether Phileas Fogg had
any sense of the beauties of nature
...
Phileas Fogg had not concealed from Sir Francis his
design of going round the world, nor the circumstances
under which he set out; and the general only saw in the
wager a useless eccentricity and a lack of sound common
sense
...
An hour after leaving Bombay the train had passed the
viaducts and the Island of Salcette, and had got into the
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open country
...
Phileas Fogg and Sir Francis Cromarty exchanged a few
words from time to time, and now Sir Francis, reviving
the conversation, observed, ‘Some years ago, Mr
...
’
‘How so, Sir Francis?’
‘Because the railway stopped at the base of these
mountains, which the passengers were obliged to cross in
palanquins or on ponies to Kandallah, on the other side
...
Fogg
...
’
‘But, Mr
...
’ Passepartout, his feet
comfortably wrapped in his travelling-blanket, was sound
asleep and did not dream that anybody was talking about
him
...
It takes particular care that the religious customs
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of the Indians should be respected, and if your servant
were caught—‘
‘Very well, Sir Francis,’ replied Mr
...
I don’t see how this affair could have delayed his
master
...
During the night the train
left the mountains behind, and passed Nassik, and the next
day proceeded over the flat, well-cultivated country of the
Khandeish, with its straggling villages, above which rose
the minarets of the pagodas
...
Passepartout, on waking and looking out, could not
realise that he was actually crossing India in a railway train
...
Then they came upon vast tracts extending
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to the horizon, with jungles inhabited by snakes and tigers,
which fled at the noise of the train; succeeded by forests
penetrated by the railway, and still haunted by elephants
which, with pensive eyes, gazed at the train as it passed
...
Not far off rose Ellora, with its graceful pagodas, and
the famous Aurungabad, capital of the ferocious AurengZeb, now the chief town of one of the detached provinces
of the kingdom of the Nizam
...
These ruffians, united by a secret bond, strangled
victims of every age in honour of the goddess Death,
without ever shedding blood; there was a period when this
part of the country could scarcely be travelled over
without corpses being found in every direction
...
At half-past twelve the train stopped at Burhampoor
where Passepartout was able to purchase some Indian
slippers, ornamented with false pearls, in which, with
evident vanity, he proceeded to encase his feet
...
Passepartout was now plunged into absorbing reverie
...
His old vagabond
nature returned to him; the fantastic ideas of his youth
once more took possession of him
...
Already he began to worry about
possible delays, and accidents which might happen on the
way
...
Being much less cool-headed than Mr
...
Fogg for not having bribed the engineer
...
The train entered the defiles of the Sutpour Mountains,
which separate the Khandeish from Bundelcund, towards
evening
...
This
famous timepiece, always regulated on the Greenwich
meridian, which was now some seventy-seven degrees
westward, was at least four hours slow
...
It was an innocent delusion
which could harm no one
...
The conductor,
passing along the carriages, shouted, ‘Passengers will get
out here!’
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Phileas Fogg looked at Sir Francis Cromarty for an
explanation; but the general could not tell what meant a
halt in the midst of this forest of dates and acacias
...
‘I mean to say that the train isn’t going on
...
‘Where are we?’ asked Sir Francis
...
’
‘Do we stop here?’
‘Certainly
...
’
‘What! not finished?’
‘No
...
’
‘But the papers announced the opening of the railway
throughout
...
’
‘Yet you sell tickets from Bombay to Calcutta,’ retorted
Sir Francis, who was growing warm
...
’
Sir Francis was furious
...
‘Sir Francis,’ said Mr
...
’
‘Mr
...
’
‘No, Sir Francis; it was foreseen
...
Nothing,
therefore, is lost
...
A steamer leaves Calcutta for Hong
Kong at noon, on the 25th
...
’
There was nothing to say to so confident a response
...
The papers were like some
watches, which have a way of getting too fast, and had
been premature in their announcement of the completion
of the line
...
Mr
...
‘I shall go afoot,’ said Phileas Fogg
...
Happily he too had been looking about
him, and, after a moment’s hesitation, said, ‘Monsieur, I
think I have found a means of conveyance
...
’
‘Let’s go and see the elephant,’ replied Mr
...
They soon reached a small hut, near which, enclosed
within some high palings, was the animal in question
...
The elephant,
which its owner had reared, not for a beast of burden, but
for warlike purposes, was half domesticated
...
Happily, however, for Mr
...
Kiouni—this
was the name of the beast—could doubtless travel rapidly
for a long time, and, in default of any other means of
conveyance, Mr
...
But elephants
are far from cheap in India, where they are becoming
scarce, the males, which alone are suitable for circus
shows, are much sought, especially as but few of them are
domesticated
...
Fogg proposed to the
Indian to hire Kiouni, he refused point-blank
...
Fogg
persisted, offering the excessive sum of ten pounds an hour
for the loan of the beast to Allahabad
...
Twenty
pounds? Refused also
...
Passepartout jumped at each advance; but the Indian
declined to be tempted
...
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Phileas Fogg, without getting in the least flurried, then
proposed to purchase the animal outright, and at first
offered a thousand pounds for him
...
Sir Francis Cromarty took Mr
...
Returning to the Indian, whose small, sharp eyes,
glistening with avarice, betrayed that with him it was only
a question of how great a price he could obtain
...
Fogg
offered first twelve hundred, then fifteen hundred,
eighteen hundred, two thousand pounds
...
At two thousand pounds the Indian yielded
...
It only remained now to find a guide, which was
comparatively easy
...
Fogg accepted,
promising so generous a reward as to materially stimulate
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his zeal
...
The
Parsee, who was an accomplished elephant driver, covered
his back with a sort of saddle-cloth, and attached to each
of his flanks some curiously uncomfortable howdahs
...
Then he offered to carry Sir Francis to Allahabad, which
the brigadier gratefully accepted, as one traveller the more
would not be likely to fatigue the gigantic beast
...
Fogg took the howdahs on either side,
Passepartout got astride the saddle-cloth between them
...
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Chapter XII
IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG
AND HIS COMPANIONS
VENTURE ACROSS THE
INDIAN FORESTS, AND
WHAT ENSUED
In order to shorten the journey, the guide passed to the
left of the line where the railway was still in process of
being built
...
The Parsee, who was quite familiar with the roads and
paths in the district, declared that they would gain twenty
miles by striking directly through the forest
...
As
for Passepartout, who was mounted on the beast’s back,
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and received the direct force of each concussion as he trod
along, he was very careful, in accordance with his master’s
advice, to keep his tongue from between his teeth, as it
would otherwise have been bitten off short
...
After two hours the guide stopped the elephant, and
gave him an hour for rest, during which Kiouni, after
quenching his thirst at a neighbouring spring, set to
devouring the branches and shrubs round about him
...
Fogg regretted the delay, and
both descended with a feeling of relief
...
‘Of forged iron,’ replied Passepartout, as he set about
preparing a hasty breakfast
...
The
country soon presented a very savage aspect
...
All this portion of Bundelcund,
which is little frequented by travellers, is inhabited by a
fanatical population, hardened in the most horrible
practices of the Hindoo faith
...
The travellers several times saw bands of
ferocious Indians, who, when they perceived the elephant
striding across-country, made angry arid threatening
motions
...
Few animals were observed on the route; even the
monkeys hurried from their path with contortions and
grimaces which convulsed Passepartout with laughter
...
What would Mr
...
Would he sell him, or set him free? The estimable beast
certainly deserved some consideration
...
Fogg
choose to make him, Passepartout, a present of Kiouni, he
would be very much embarrassed; and these thoughts did
not cease worrying him for a long time
...
They had gone
nearly twenty-five miles that day, and an equal distance
still separated them from the station of Allahabad
...
The Parsee lit a fire in the
bungalow with a few dry branches, and the warmth was
very grateful, provisions purchased at Kholby sufficed for
supper, and the travellers ate ravenously
...
The guide
watched Kiouni, who slept standing, bolstering himself
against the trunk of a large tree
...
Sir Francis slept heavily, like an honest soldier
overcome with fatigue
...
As for
Mr
...
The journey was resumed at six in the morning; the
guide hoped to reach Allahabad by evening
...
Fogg would only lose a part of the forty-eight hours
saved since the beginning of the tour
...
The guide avoided inhabited places, thinking it
safer to keep the open country, which lies along the first
depressions of the basin of the great river
...
They stopped
under a clump of bananas, the fruit of which, as healthy as
bread and as succulent as cream, was amply partaken of
and appreciated
...
They had not as yet had any unpleasant
encounters, and the journey seemed on the point of being
successfully accomplished, when the elephant, becoming
restless, suddenly stopped
...
‘What’s the matter?’ asked Sir Francis, putting out his
head
...
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The murmur soon became more distinct; it now
seemed like a distant concert of human voices
accompanied by brass instruments
...
Mr
...
The Parsee jumped to the ground, fastened the elephant to
a tree, and plunged into the thicket
...
We
must prevent their seeing us, if possible
...
He held himself ready to bestride the animal at a
moment’s notice, should flight become necessary; but he
evidently thought that the procession of the faithful would
pass without perceiving them amid the thick foliage, in
which they were wholly concealed
...
The head of the
procession soon appeared beneath the trees, a hundred
paces away; and the strange figures who performed the
religious ceremony were easily distinguished through the
branches
...
They were
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surrounded by men, women, and children, who sang a
kind of lugubrious psalm, interrupted at regular intervals
by the tambourines and cymbals; while behind them was
drawn a car with large wheels, the spokes of which
represented serpents entwined with each other
...
It stood upright upon
the figure of a prostrate and headless giant
...
’
‘Of death, perhaps,’ muttered back Passepartout, ‘but of
love— that ugly old hag? Never!’
The Parsee made a motion to keep silence
...
Some Brahmins, clad in all the sumptuousness
of Oriental apparel, and leading a woman who faltered at
every step, followed
...
Her head and neck, shoulders, ears, arms,
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hands, and toes were loaded down with jewels and gems
with bracelets, earrings, and rings; while a tunic bordered
with gold, and covered with a light muslin robe, betrayed
the outline of her form
...
It was the body of an
old man, gorgeously arrayed in the habiliments of a rajah,
wearing, as in life, a turban embroidered with pearls, a
robe of tissue of silk and gold, a scarf of cashmere sewed
with diamonds, and the magnificent weapons of a Hindoo
prince
...
Sir Francis watched the procession with a sad
countenance, and, turning to the guide, said, ‘A suttee
...
The
procession slowly wound under the trees, and soon its last
ranks disappeared in the depths of the wood
...
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Phileas Fogg had heard what Sir Francis said, and, as
soon as the procession had disappeared, asked: ‘What is a
suttee?’
‘A suttee,’ returned the general, ‘is a human sacrifice,
but a voluntary one
...
’
‘Oh, the scoundrels!’ cried Passepartout, who could not
repress his indignation
...
Fogg
...
’
‘Is it possible,’ resumed Phileas Fogg, his voice
betraying not the least emotion, ‘that these barbarous
customs still exist in India, and that the English have been
unable to put a stop to them?’
‘These sacrifices do not occur in the larger portion of
India,’ replied Sir Francis; ‘but we have no power over
these savage territories, and especially here in Bundelcund
...
’
‘The poor wretch!’ exclaimed Passepartout, ‘to be
burned alive!’
‘Yes,’ returned Sir Francis, ‘burned alive
...
They would
shave off her hair, feed her on a scanty allowance of rice,
treat her with contempt; she would be looked upon as an
unclean creature, and would die in some corner, like a
scurvy dog
...
Sometimes, however, the sacrifice
is really voluntary, and it requires the active interference of
the Government to prevent it
...
The woman left the
town, took refuge with an independent rajah, and there
carried out her self-devoted purpose
...
’
‘How do you know?’
‘Everybody knows about this affair in Bundelcund
...
‘That was because they had intoxicated her with fumes
of hemp and opium
...
’
‘And the sacrifice will take place—‘
‘To-morrow, at the first light of dawn
...
Just at the moment that he was
about to urge Kiouni forward with a peculiar whistle, Mr
...
’
‘Save the woman, Mr
...
’
‘Why, you are a man of heart!’
‘Sometimes,’ replied Phileas Fogg, quietly; ‘when I
have the time
...
Mr
...
But he did
not hesitate, and he found in Sir Francis Cromarty an
enthusiastic ally
...
His master’s idea charmed him; he
perceived a heart, a soul, under that icy exterior
...
There remained the guide: what course would he
adopt? Would he not take part with the Indians? In default
of his assistance, it was necessary to be assured of his
neutrality
...
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‘Officers,’ replied the guide, ‘I am a Parsee, and this
woman is a Parsee
...
’
‘Excellent!’ said Mr
...
‘However,’ resumed the guide, ‘it is certain, not only
that we shall risk our lives, but horrible tortures, if we are
taken
...
Fogg
...
’
‘I think so,’ said the guide
...
She had received a thoroughly English education in that
city, and, from her manners and intelligence, would be
thought an European
...
Left an
orphan, she was married against her will to the old rajah of
Bundelcund; and, knowing the fate that awaited her, she
escaped, was retaken, and devoted by the rajah’s relatives,
who had an interest in her death, to the sacrifice from
which it seemed she could not escape
...
Fogg and his
companions in their generous design
...
They halted, half an hour afterwards, in a copse,
some five hundred feet from the pagoda, where they were
well concealed; but they could hear the groans and cries of
the fakirs distinctly
...
The guide was familiar with the pagoda of Pillaji, in
which, as he declared, the young woman was imprisoned
...
Then no human intervention could save her
...
The cries of the
fakirs were just ceasing; the Indians were in the act of
plunging themselves into the drunkenness caused by liquid
opium mingled with hemp, and it might be possible to slip
between them to the temple itself
...
The pagoda, whose
minarets loomed above the trees in the deepening dusk,
stood a hundred steps away
...
He slipped more cautiously than ever through the
brush, followed by his companions; the silence around was
only broken by the low murmuring of the wind among
the branches
...
The ground was covered
by groups of the Indians, motionless in their drunken
sleep; it seemed a battlefield strewn with the dead
...
In the background, among the trees, the pagoda of
Pillaji loomed distinctly
...
The Parsee, now convinced that it was impossible to
force an entrance to the temple, advanced no farther, but
led his companions back again
...
They stopped, and engaged in
a whispered colloquy
...
’
‘It is not impossible,’ returned the Parsee
...
The time seemed long; the guide ever and anon left
them to take an observation on the edge of the wood, but
the guards watched steadily by the glare of the torches,
and a dim light crept through the windows of the pagoda
...
The other plan
must be carried out; an opening in the walls of the pagoda
must be made
...
After a last consultation, the guide announced that he
was ready for the attempt, and advanced, followed by the
others
...
They reached the walls about half-past
twelve, without having met anyone; here there was no
guard, nor were there either windows or doors
...
The moon, on the wane, scarcely
left the horizon, and was covered with heavy clouds; the
height of the trees deepened the darkness
...
Happily the temple
walls were built of brick and wood, which could be
penetrated with little difficulty; after one brick had been
taken out, the rest would yield easily
...
They were
getting on rapidly, when suddenly a cry was heard in the
interior of the temple, followed almost instantly by other
cries replying from the outside
...
Had they been heard? Was the alarm being
given? Common prudence urged them to retire, and they
did so, followed by Phileas Fogg and Sir Francis
...
But, awkwardly enough, the guards now appeared at the
rear of the temple, and there installed themselves, in
readiness to prevent a surprise
...
They could not
now reach the victim; how, then, could they save her? Sir
Francis shook his fists, Passepartout was beside himself, and
the guide gnashed his teeth with rage
...
‘We have nothing to do but to go away,’ whispered Sir
Francis
...
‘Stop,’ said Fogg
...
’
‘But what can you hope to do?’ asked Sir Francis
...
’
Sir Francis would have liked to read Phileas Fogg’s
eyes
...
Sir Francis consented, however, to
remain to the end of this terrible drama
...
Meanwhile Passepartout, who had perched himself on
the lower branches of a tree, was resolving an idea which
had at first struck him like a flash, and which was now
firmly lodged in his brain
...
The hours passed, and the lighter shades now
announced the approach of day, though it was not yet
light
...
The slumbering multitude
became animated, the tambourines sounded, songs and
cries arose; the hour of the sacrifice had come
...
Fogg and Sir Francis
espied the victim
...
Sir Francis’s heart throbbed; and,
convulsively seizing Mr
...
Just at this moment the crowd began to move
...
Phileas Fogg and his companions, mingling in the rear
ranks of the crowd, followed; and in two minutes they
reached the banks of the stream, and stopped fifty paces
from the pyre, upon which still lay the rajah’s corpse
...
Then a torch was
brought, and the wood, heavily soaked with oil, instantly
took fire
...
But he had quickly pushed them
aside, when the whole scene suddenly changed
...
The whole multitude prostrated themselves,
terror-stricken, on the ground
...
Fakirs and soldiers and priests, seized with instant
terror, lay there, with their faces on the ground, not daring
to lift their eyes and behold such a prodigy
...
Mr
...
The resuscitated rajah approached Sir Francis and Mr
...
A moment after all four of the party had disappeared in
the woods, and the elephant was bearing them away at a
rapid pace
...
The old rajah’s body, indeed, now appeared upon the
burning pyre; and the priests, recovered from their terror,
perceived that an abduction had taken place
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Chapter XIV
IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG
DESCENDS THE WHOLE
LENGTH OF THE BEAUTIFUL
VALLEY OF THE GANGES
WITHOUT EVER THINKING
OF SEEING IT
The rash exploit had been accomplished; and for an
hour Passepartout laughed gaily at his success
...
Fogg
...
The elephant, thanks to the skilful guidance of the
Parsee, was advancing rapidly through the still darksome
forest, and, an hour after leaving the pagoda, had crossed a
vast plain
...
The
guide made her drink a little brandy and water, but the
drowsiness which stupefied her could not yet be shaken
off
...
But he was more disturbed at
the prospect of her future fate
...
These fanatics
were scattered throughout the county, and would, despite
the English police, recover their victim at Madras,
Bombay, or Calcutta
...
Phileas Fogg replied that he would reflect upon the
matter
...
Phileas Fogg would thus be able to arrive in time to
take the steamer which left Calcutta the next day, October
25th, at noon, for Hong Kong
...
Passepartout started off forthwith, and found
himself in the streets of Allahabad, that is, the City of God,
one of the most venerated in India, being built at the
junction of the two sacred rivers, Ganges and Jumna, the
waters of which attract pilgrims from every part of the
peninsula
...
Passepartout made it a point, as he made his purchases,
to take a good look at the city
...
At last he came upon an elderly, crusty
Jew, who sold second-hand articles, and from whom he
purchased a dress of Scotch stuff, a large mantle, and a fine
otter-skin pelisse, for which he did not hesitate to pay
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seventy-five pounds
...
The influence to which the priests of Pillaji had
subjected Aouda began gradually to yield, and she became
more herself, so that her fine eyes resumed all their soft
Indian expression
...
Her ebony brows
have the form and charm of the bow of Kama, the god of
love, and beneath her long silken lashes the purest
reflections and a celestial light swim, as in the sacred lakes
of Himalaya, in the black pupils of her great clear eyes
...
Her delicately formed ears, her
vermilion hands, her little feet, curved and tender as the
lotus-bud, glitter with the brilliancy of the loveliest pearls
of Ceylon, the most dazzling diamonds of Golconda
...
’
It is enough to say, without applying this poetical
rhapsody to Aouda, that she was a charming woman, in all
the European acceptation of the phrase
...
The train was about to start from Allahabad, and Mr
...
He had, indeed, risked his life in the
adventure at Pillaji, and, if he should be caught afterwards
by the Indians, he would with difficulty escape their
vengeance
...
What
should be done with the elephant, which had been so
dearly purchased? Phileas Fogg had already determined this
question
...
I have paid for your service, but
not for your devotion
...
’
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The guide’s eyes glistened
...
‘Take him, guide,’ returned Mr
...
’
‘Good!’ exclaimed Passepartout
...
Kiouni is a brave and faithful beast
...
’
The elephant grunted out his satisfaction, and, clasping
Passepartout around the waist with his trunk, lifted him as
high as his head
...
Soon after, Phileas Fogg, Sir Francis Cromarty, and
Passepartout, installed in a carriage with Aouda, who had
the best seat, were whirling at full speed towards Benares
...
During the journey, the young woman fully
recovered her senses
...
Mr
...
’
Aouda pathetically thanked her deliverers, rather with
tears than words; her fine eyes interpreted her gratitude
better than her lips
...
Phileas Fogg understood what was passing in Aouda’s
mind, and offered, in order to reassure her, to escort her
to Hong Kong, where she might remain safely until the
affair was hushed up—an offer which she eagerly and
gratefully accepted
...
At half-past twelve the train stopped at Benares
...
Benares was Sir Francis Cromarty’s destination, the
troops he was rejoining being encamped some miles
northward of the city
...
Mr
...
The parting of Aouda, who did not forget what she
owed to Sir Francis, betrayed more warmth; and, as for
Passepartout, he received a hearty shake of the hand from
the gallant general
...
Through the windows of
their carriage the travellers had glimpses of the diversified
landscape of Behar, with its mountains clothed in verdure,
its fields of barley, wheat, and corn, its jungles peopled
with green alligators, its neat villages, and its still thicklyleaved forests
...
These were fervent Brahmins, the bitterest foes
of Buddhism, their deities being Vishnu, the solar god,
Shiva, the divine impersonation of natural forces, and
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Brahma, the supreme ruler of priests and legislators
...
Night came on; the train passed on at full speed, in the
midst of the roaring of the tigers, bears, and wolves which
fled before the locomotive; and the marvels of Bengal,
Golconda ruined Gour, Murshedabad, the ancient capital,
Burdwan, Hugly, and the French town of Chandernagor,
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where Passepartout would have been proud to see his
country’s flag flying, were hidden from their view in the
darkness
...
According to his journal, he was due at Calcutta on the
25th of October, and that was the exact date of his actual
arrival
...
The two days gained between London and
Bombay had been lost, as has been seen, in the journey
across India
...
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Chapter XV
IN WHICH THE BAG OF
BANKNOTES DISGORGES
SOME THOUSANDS OF
POUNDS MORE
The train entered the station, and Passepartout jumping
out first, was followed by Mr
...
Phileas Fogg intended to proceed
at once to the Hong Kong steamer, in order to get Aouda
comfortably settled for the voyage
...
Just as he was leaving the station a policeman came up
to him, and said, ‘Mr
...
’
‘Is this man your servant?’ added the policeman,
pointing to Passepartout
...
’
‘Be so good, both of you, as to follow me
...
Fogg betrayed no surprise whatever
...
Passepartout tried to reason
about the matter, but the policeman tapped him with his
stick, and Mr
...
‘May this young lady go with us?’ asked he
...
Mr
...
No one spoke during the twenty minutes which
elapsed before they reached their destination
...
The carriage stopped before a modest-looking house,
which, however, did not have the appearance of a private
mansion
...
’
He then retired, and closed the door
...
Aouda, with an emotion she tried to conceal, said to
Mr
...
It was quite unlikely that he should be arrested
for preventing a suttee
...
There was some
mistake
...
‘But the steamer leaves at noon!’ observed Passepartout,
nervously
...
It was said so positively that Passepartout could not
help muttering to himself, ‘Parbleu that’s certain! Before
noon we shall be on board
...
At half-past eight the door opened, the policeman
appeared, and, requesting them to follow him, led the way
to an adjoining hall
...
Mr
...
Immediately after, Judge Obadiah, a fat, round man,
followed by the clerk, entered
...
‘The first case,’ said he
...
’
‘My dear Mr
...
Passepartout was getting nervous, for the hands on the
face of the big clock over the judge seemed to go around
with terrible rapidity
...
‘Phileas Fogg?’ demanded Oysterpuff
...
Fogg
...
‘Good,’ said the judge
...
’
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‘But of what are we accused?’ asked Passepartout,
impatiently
...
’
‘I am an English subject, sir,’ said Mr
...
’
‘Very well; let the complainants come in
...
‘That’s it,’ muttered Passepartout; ‘these are the rogues
who were going to burn our young lady
...
‘You hear the charge?’ asked the judge
...
Fogg, consulting his watch, ‘and I
admit it
...
’
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The priests looked at each other; they did not seem to
understand what was said
...
’
The judge stared with astonishment, and the priests
were stupefied
...
‘Burn whom? In
Bombay itself?’
‘Bombay?’ cried Passepartout
...
We are not talking of the pagoda of Pillaji,
but of the pagoda of Malabar Hill, at Bombay
...
’
Whereupon he placed a pair of shoes on his desk
...
The confusion of master and man, who had quite
forgotten the affair at Bombay, for which they were now
detained at Calcutta, may be imagined
...
Knowing that the English authorities dealt
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very severely with this kind of misdemeanour, he
promised them a goodly sum in damages, and sent them
forward to Calcutta by the next train
...
Fogg and his
servant, the magistrates having been already warned by a
dispatch to arrest them should they arrive
...
He
made up his mind that the robber had stopped somewhere
on the route and taken refuge in the southern provinces
...
Fogg and Passepartout arrive, accompanied by a young
woman, whose presence he was wholly at a loss to
explain
...
Had Passepartout been a little less preoccupied, he
would have espied the detective ensconced in a corner of
the court-room, watching the proceedings with an interest
easily understood; for the warrant had failed to reach him
at Calcutta, as it had done at Bombay and Suez
...
‘The facts are admitted?’ asked the judge
...
Fogg, coldly
...
’
‘Three hundred pounds!’ cried Passepartout, startled at
the largeness of the sum
...
‘And inasmuch,’ continued the judge, ‘as it is not
proved that the act was not done by the connivance of the
master with the servant, and as the master in any case must
be held responsible for the acts of his paid servant, I
condemn Phileas Fogg to a week’s imprisonment and a
fine of one hundred and fifty pounds
...
Passepartout was
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stupefied
...
A wager of
twenty thousand pounds lost, because he, like a precious
fool, had gone into that abominable pagoda!
Phileas Fogg, as self-composed as if the judgment did
not in the least concern him, did not even lift his
eyebrows while it was being pronounced
...
’
‘You have that right,’ returned the judge
...
‘I will pay it at once,’ said Mr
...
‘This sum will be restored to you upon your release
from prison,’ said the judge
...
’
‘Come!’ said Phileas Fogg to his servant
...
‘Ah, these are pretty dear shoes!’ he muttered, as they
were handed to him
...
’
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Mr
...
Fix still nourished
hopes that the robber would not, after all, leave the two
thousand pounds behind him, but would decide to serve
out his week in jail, and issued forth on Mr
...
That gentleman took a carriage, and the party were soon
landed on one of the quays
...
Eleven o’clock was striking; Mr
...
Fix saw them leave the carriage and push
off in a boat for the steamer, and stamped his feet with
disappointment
...
‘Two
thousand pounds sacrificed! He’s as prodigal as a thief! I’ll
follow him to the end of the world if necessary; but, at the
rate he is going on, the stolen money will soon be
exhausted
...
Since leaving London, what with travelling
expenses, bribes, the purchase of the elephant, bails, and
fines, Mr
...
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Chapter XVI
IN WHICH FIX DOES NOT
SEEM TO UNDERSTAND IN
THE LEAST WHAT IS SAID TO
HIM
The Rangoon—one of the Peninsular and Oriental
Company’s boats plying in the Chinese and Japanese
seas—was a screw steamer, built of iron, weighing about
seventeen hundred and seventy tons, and with engines of
four hundred horse-power
...
However, the trip from Calcutta to
Hong Kong only comprised some three thousand five
hundred miles, occupying from ten to twelve days, and
the young woman was not difficult to please
...
The
phlegmatic gentleman listened to her, apparently at least,
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with coldness, neither his voice nor his manner betraying
the slightest emotion; but he seemed to be always on the
watch that nothing should be wanting to Aouda’s comfort
...
He treated
her with the strictest politeness, but with the precision of
an automaton, the movements of which had been
arranged for this purpose
...
After all, she owed Phileas Fogg her life, and she
always regarded him through the exalting medium of her
gratitude
...
She did, indeed, belong to the highest of
the native races of India
...
Aouda was a relative of this
great man, and it was his cousin, Jeejeeh, whom she hoped
to join at Hong Kong
...
Fogg essayed
to calm her anxieties, and to assure her that everything
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would be mathematically—he used the very word—
arranged
...
The first few days of the voyage passed prosperously,
amid favourable weather and propitious winds, and they
soon came in sight of the great Andaman, the principal of
the islands in the Bay of Bengal, with its picturesque
Saddle Peak, two thousand four hundred feet high,
looming above the waters
...
The panorama of the islands, as they steamed by them,
was superb
...
The varied landscape afforded by
the Andaman Islands was soon passed, however, and the
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Rangoon rapidly approached the Straits of Malacca, which
gave access to the China seas
...
It would have been difficult to explain why he
was on board without awakening Passepartout’s suspicions,
who thought him still at Bombay
...
All the detective’s hopes and wishes were now centred
on Hong Kong; for the steamer’s stay at Singapore would
be too brief to enable him to take any steps there
...
Hong Kong was the last
English ground on which he would set foot; beyond,
China, Japan, America offered to Fogg an almost certain
refuge
...
But beyond Hong Kong, a simple warrant would
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be of no avail; an extradition warrant would be necessary,
and that would result in delays and obstacles, of which the
rascal would take advantage to elude justice
...
I have failed at Bombay, and I have failed at
Calcutta; if I fail at Hong Kong, my reputation is lost:
Cost what it may, I must succeed! But how shall I prevent
his departure, if that should turn out to be my last
resource?’
Fix made up his mind that, if worst came to worst, he
would make a confidant of Passepartout, and tell him what
kind of a fellow his master really was
...
The
servant, enlightened by his disclosure, and afraid of being
himself implicated in the crime, would doubtless become
an ally of the detective
...
A word from Passepartout to his master would ruin all
...
But suddenly a
new idea struck him
...
Who was this woman? What combination of events
had made her Fogg’s travelling companion? They had
evidently met somewhere between Bombay and Calcutta;
but where? Had they met accidentally, or had Fogg gone
into the interior purposely in quest of this charming
damsel? Fix was fairly puzzled
...
Whether the young woman
were married or not, he would be able to create such
difficulties for Mr
...
But could he even wait till they reached Hong Kong?
Fogg had an abominable way of jumping from one boat to
another, and, before anything could be effected, might get
full under way again for Yokohama
...
This was easy
to do, since the steamer stopped at Singapore, whence
there is a telegraphic wire to Hong Kong
...
It would not be difficult to make
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him talk; and, as there was no time to lose, Fix prepared to
make himself known
...
Fix emerged from his cabin and went on deck
...
The detective rushed forward
with every appearance of extreme surprise, and exclaimed,
‘You here, on the Rangoon?’
‘What, Monsieur Fix, are you on board?’ returned the
really astonished Passepartout, recognising his crony of the
Mongolia
...
’
‘Hum!’ said Passepartout, who seemed for an instant
perplexed
...
The Gulf of Bengal does not agree with me as well
as the Indian Ocean
...
Fogg?’
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‘As well and as punctual as ever, not a day behind time!
But, Monsieur Fix, you don’t know that we have a young
lady with us
...
Passepartout thereupon recounted Aouda’s history, the
affair at the Bombay pagoda, the purchase of the elephant
for two thousand pounds, the rescue, the arrest, and
sentence of the Calcutta court, and the restoration of Mr
...
Fix, who was familiar
with the last events, seemed to be equally ignorant of all
that Passepartout related; and the later was charmed to find
so interested a listener
...
We are simply going to place her under the
protection of one of her relatives, a rich merchant at Hong
Kong
...
‘A glass of gin, Mr
...
We must at least have a
friendly glass on board the Rangoon
...
Fogg
...
Fogg usually
confined himself to the cabin, where he kept Aouda
company, or, according to his inveterate habit, took a
hand at whist
...
It was really worth considering why this
certainly very amiable and complacent person, whom he
had first met at Suez, had then encountered on board the
Mongolia, who disembarked at Bombay, which he
announced as his destination, and now turned up so
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unexpectedly on the Rangoon, was following Mr
...
What was Fix’s object? Passepartout
was ready to wager his Indian shoes—which he religiously
preserved—that Fix would also leave Hong Kong at the
same time with them, and probably on the same steamer
...
He never could have imagined that
Phileas Fogg was being tracked as a robber around the
globe
...
Fix, he thought, could only be an
agent of Mr
...
‘It’s clear!’ repeated the worthy servant to himself,
proud of his shrewdness
...
Fogg, who is so honourable a man! Ah, gentlemen of the
Reform, this shall cost you dear!’
Passepartout, enchanted with his discovery, resolved to
say nothing to his master, lest he should be justly offended
at this mistrust on the part of his adversaries
...
During the afternoon of Wednesday, 30th October, the
Rangoon entered the Strait of Malacca, which separates
the peninsula of that name from Sumatra
...
The
Rangoon weighed anchor at Singapore the next day at
four a
...
, to receive coal, having gained half a day on the
prescribed time of her arrival
...
Fix, who suspected Mr
...
The island of Singapore is not imposing in aspect, for
there are no mountains; yet its appearance is not without
attractions
...
A handsome carriage, drawn by a sleek pair of
New Holland horses, carried Phileas Fogg and Aouda into
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open flower
...
Agile and grinning bands of monkeys skipped
about in the trees, nor were tigers wanting in the jungles
...
Fogg returned to the town, which is a vast
collection of heavy-looking, irregular houses, surrounded
by charming gardens rich in tropical fruits and plants; and
at ten o’clock they re-embarked, closely followed by the
detective, who had kept them constantly in sight
...
He
was only too glad to offer some mangoes to Aouda, who
thanked him very gracefully for them
...
Singapore is distant some thirteen hundred miles from the
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island of Hong Kong, which is a little English colony near
the Chinese coast
...
The Rangoon had a large quota of passengers, many of
whom disembarked at Singapore, among them a number
of Indians, Ceylonese, Chinamen, Malays, and
Portuguese, mostly second-class travellers
...
The sea rolled heavily,
and the wind at intervals rose almost to a storm, but
happily blew from the south-west, and thus aided the
steamer’s progress
...
Owing to the defective construction of the
Rangoon, however, unusual precautions became necessary
in unfavourable weather; but the loss of time which
resulted from this cause, while it nearly drove Passepartout
out of his senses, did not seem to affect his master in the
least
...
Perhaps the
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thought of the gas, which was remorselessly burning at his
expense in Saville Row, had something to do with his hot
impatience
...
Fogg, I suppose, is anxious to catch the steamer
for Yokohama?’
‘Terribly anxious
...
Don’t you, Mr
...
’
‘You’re a sly dog!’ said Passepartout, winking at him
...
Had the Frenchman guessed his real
purpose? He knew not what to think
...
Passepartout went still further the next day; he could
not hold his tongue
...
Fix,’ said he, in a bantering tone, ‘shall we be so
unfortunate as to lose you when we get to Hong Kong?’
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‘Why,’ responded Fix, a little embarrassed, ‘I don’t
know; perhaps—‘
‘Ah, if you would only go on with us! An agent of the
Peninsular Company, you know, can’t stop on the way!
You were only going to Bombay, and here you are in
China
...
’
Fix looked intently at his companion, whose
countenance was as serene as possible, and laughed with
him
...
‘Yes, and no,’ returned Fix; ‘there is good and bad luck
in such things
...
’
‘Oh, I am quite sure of that!’ cried Passepartout,
laughing heartily
...
He was evidently suspected;
somehow or other the Frenchman had found out that he
was a detective
...
Nevertheless, he preserved his coolness of mind, and at
last resolved to deal plainly with Passepartout
...
Either the servant was the accomplice of his master, and in
this case the master knew of his operations, and he should
fail; or else the servant knew nothing about the robbery,
and then his interest would be to abandon the robber
...
Meanwhile Phileas Fogg moved about above them in the
most majestic and unconscious indifference
...
Yet there was near by what the astronomers would call a
disturbing star, which might have produced an agitation in
this gentleman’s heart
...
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It was every day an increasing wonder to Passepartout,
who read in Aouda’s eyes the depths of her gratitude to his
master
...
As to the sentiment which this
journey might have awakened in him, there was clearly no
trace of such a thing; while poor Passepartout existed in
perpetual reveries
...
The
steam came hissing out of the valves; and this made
Passepartout indignant
...
‘We are not going
...
The wind, obstinately remaining in the northwest, blew a gale, and retarded the steamer
...
A sort of tempest arose on the 3rd of November, the
squall knocking the vessel about with fury, and the waves
running high
...
The steamer was forced to proceed slowly, and
the captain estimated that she would reach Hong Kong
twenty hours behind time, and more if the storm lasted
...
He never changed countenance for
an instant, though a delay of twenty hours, by making him
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too late for the Yokohama boat, would almost inevitably
cause the loss of the wager
...
Aouda was amazed to find him as calm as he had
been from the first time she saw him
...
The storm greatly pleased him
...
Each delay filled
him with hope, for it became more and more probable
that Fogg would be obliged to remain some days at Hong
Kong; and now the heavens themselves became his allies,
with the gusts and squalls
...
Passepartout was enraged beyond expression by the
unpropitious weather
...
Had the hour of adversity
come? Passepartout was as much excited as if the twenty
thousand pounds were to come from his own pocket
...
Poor
fellow! Fix carefully concealed from him his own
satisfaction, for, had he betrayed it, Passepartout could
scarcely have restrained himself from personal violence
...
He overwhelmed the captain,
officers, and sailors, who could not help laughing at his
impatience, with all sorts of questions
...
Passepartout shook
it, but with no perceptible effect; for neither shaking nor
maledictions could prevail upon it to change its mind
...
Passepartout
cleared up with the weather
...
The time lost could not, however, be regained
...
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four hours behind-hand, and the Yokohama steamer
would, of course, be missed
...
Passepartout longed to ask him if
the steamer had left for Yokohama; but he dared not, for
he wished to preserve the spark of hope, which still
remained till the last moment
...
Fogg would be in time if he took the next
boat; but this only put Passepartout in a passion
...
Fogg, bolder than his servant, did not hesitate to
approach the pilot, and tranquilly ask him if he knew
when a steamer would leave Hong Kong for Yokohama
...
‘Ah!’ said Mr
...
Passepartout, who heard what passed, would willingly
have embraced the pilot, while Fix would have been glad
to twist his neck
...
Fogg
...
’
‘Ought she not to have gone yesterday?’
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‘Yes, sir; but they had to repair one of her boilers, and
so her departure was postponed till to-morrow
...
Fogg, descending
mathematically to the saloon
...
He
remounted the bridge, and guided the steamer through the
flotilla of junks, tankas, and fishing boats which crowd the
harbour of Hong Kong
...
Chance had strangely favoured Phileas Fogg, for had
not the Carnatic been forced to lie over for repairing her
boilers, she would have left on the 6th of November, and
the passengers for Japan would have been obliged to await
for a week the sailing of the next steamer
...
Fogg was,
it is true, twenty-four hours behind his time; but this
could not seriously imperil the remainder of his tour
...
Fogg was twenty-four hours late
on reaching Yokohama, this time would no doubt be
easily regained in the voyage of twenty-two days across
the Pacific
...
The Carnatic was announced to leave Hong Kong at
five the next morning
...
Fogg had sixteen hours in
which to attend to his business there, which was to deposit
Aouda safely with her wealthy relative
...
A room was engaged for
the young woman, and Mr
...
He instructed Passepartout to remain at the hotel
until his return, that Aouda might not be left entirely
alone
...
Fogg repaired to the Exchange, where, he did not
doubt, every one would know so wealthy and
considerable a personage as the Parsee merchant
...
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Phileas Fogg returned to the hotel, begged a moment’s
conversation with Aouda, and without more ado, apprised
her that Jeejeeh was no longer at Hong Kong, but
probably in Holland
...
She passed her hand across
her forehead, and reflected a few moments
...
Fogg?’
‘It is very simple,’ responded the gentleman
...
’
‘But I cannot intrude—‘
‘You do not intrude, nor do you in the least embarrass
my project
...
’
‘Go to the Carnatic, and engage three cabins
...
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Chapter XIX
IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT
TAKES
A
TOO
GREAT
INTEREST IN HIS MASTER,
AND WHAT COMES OF IT
Hong Kong is an island which came into the possession
of the English by the Treaty of Nankin, after the war of
1842; and the colonising genius of the English has created
upon it an important city and an excellent port
...
Hong Kong has beaten
Macao in the struggle for the Chinese trade, and now the
greater part of the transportation of Chinese goods finds its
depot at the former place
...
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Passepartout wandered, with his hands in his pockets,
towards the Victoria port, gazing as he went at the curious
palanquins and other modes of conveyance, and the
groups of Chinese, Japanese, and Europeans who passed to
and fro in the streets
...
At the Victoria port he found a confused mass of ships of
all nations: English, French, American, and Dutch, menof-war and trading vessels, Japanese and Chinese junks,
sempas, tankas, and flower-boats, which formed so many
floating parterres
...
On going into a barber’s to get shaved
he learned that these ancient men were all at least eighty
years old, at which age they are permitted to wear yellow,
which is the Imperial colour
...
On reaching the quay where they were to embark on
the Carnatic, he was not astonished to find Fix walking up
and down
...
‘This is bad,’ muttered Passepartout, ‘for the gentlemen
of the Reform Club!’ He accosted Fix with a merry smile,
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as if he had not perceived that gentleman’s chagrin
...
The warrant had not come!
It was certainly on the way, but as certainly it could not
now reach Hong Kong for several days; and, this being the
last English territory on Mr
...
‘Well, Monsieur Fix,’ said Passepartout, ‘have you
decided to go with us so far as America?’
‘Yes,’ returned Fix, through his set teeth
...
‘I
knew you could not persuade yourself to separate from us
...
’
They entered the steamer office and secured cabins for
four persons
...
‘That will suit my master all the better,’ said
Passepartout
...
’
Fix now decided to make a bold move; he resolved to
tell Passepartout all
...
He accordingly invited his companion into a tavern
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which caught his eye on the quay
...
Several persons lay upon this bed in a deep sleep
...
From time to time one of the smokers, overcome
with the narcotic, would slip under the table, whereupon
the waiters, taking him by the head and feet, carried and
laid him upon the bed
...
Fix and Passepartout saw that they were in a smokinghouse haunted by those wretched, cadaverous, idiotic
creatures to whom the English merchants sell every year
the miserable drug called opium, to the amount of one
million four hundred thousand pounds— thousands
devoted to one of the most despicable vices which afflict
humanity! The Chinese government has in vain attempted
to deal with the evil by stringent laws
...
Opium is smoked everywhere, at all times, by
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men and women, in the Celestial Empire; and, once
accustomed to it, the victims cannot dispense with it,
except by suffering horrible bodily contortions and
agonies
...
It was in one of these dens
that Fix and Passepartout, in search of a friendly glass,
found themselves
...
They ordered two bottles of port, to which the
Frenchman did ample justice, whilst Fix observed him
with close attention
...
When the bottles were
empty, however, he rose to go and tell his master of the
change in the time of the sailing of the Carnatic
...
’
‘What for, Mr
...
’
‘A serious talk!’ cried Passepartout, drinking up the
little wine that was left in the bottom of his glass
...
’
‘Stay! What I have to say concerns your master
...
Fix’s face seemed to have a singular
expression
...
‘What is it that you have to say?’
Fix placed his hand upon Passepartout’s arm, and,
lowering his voice, said, ‘You have guessed who I am?’
‘Parbleu!’ said Passepartout, smiling
...
But go on, go on
...
’
‘Useless!’ said Fix
...
It’s clear
that you don’t know how large the sum is
...
‘Twenty
thousand pounds
...
‘What!’ cried the Frenchman
...
Fix pushed Passepartout back in his chair, and resumed:
‘Fifty-five thousand pounds; and if I succeed, I get two
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thousand pounds
...
’
‘Help you?’ cried Passepartout, whose eyes were
standing wide open
...
Fogg here for two or three
days
...
They
might as well waylay Mr
...
’
‘It’s a conspiracy, then,’ cried Passepartout, who
became more and more excited as the liquor mounted in
his head, for he drank without perceiving it
...
Bah!’
Fix began to be puzzled
...
‘You must know, Monsieur Fix, that my
master is an honest man, and that, when he makes a
wager, he tries to win it fairly!’
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‘But who do you think I am?’ asked Fix, looking at
him intently
...
But,
though I found you out some time ago, I’ve taken good
care to say nothing about it to Mr
...
’
‘He knows nothing, then?’
‘Nothing,’ replied Passepartout, again emptying his
glass
...
What should he do?
Passepartout’s mistake seemed sincere, but it made his
design more difficult
...
‘Well,’ said the detective to himself, ‘as he is not an
accomplice, he will help me
...
‘Listen to me,’ said Fix abruptly
...
‘I am a police detective, sent out here by the London
office
...
Here is my commission
...
‘Mr
...
He had a motive for securing your innocent complicity
...
On the 28th of last September a robbery of
fifty-five thousand pounds was committed at the Bank of
England by a person whose description was fortunately
secured
...
Phileas Fogg
...
‘My master is the most honourable of men!’
‘How can you tell? You know scarcely anything about
him
...
And yet you are
bold enough to assert that he is an honest man!’
‘Yes, yes,’ repeated the poor fellow, mechanically
...
Phileas Fogg, the saviour of Aouda, that brave
and generous man, a robber! And yet how many
presumptions there were against him! Passepartout essayed
to reject the suspicions which forced themselves upon his
mind; he did not wish to believe that his master was
guilty
...
‘See here,’ replied Fix; ‘I have tracked Mr
...
You must help me to
keep him here in Hong Kong—‘
‘I! But I—‘
‘I will share with you the two thousand pounds reward
offered by the Bank of England
...
‘Mr
...
I come
from a village where they don’t eat that kind of bread!’
‘You refuse?’
‘I refuse
...
’
‘Yes; let us drink!’
Passepartout felt himself yielding more and more to the
effects of the liquor
...
Some pipes full of opium lay upon the
table
...
He took it,
put it between his lips, lit it, drew several puffs, and his
head, becoming heavy under the influence of the narcotic,
fell upon the table
...
‘Mr
...
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Chapter XX
IN WHICH FIX COMES FACE
TO FACE WITH PHILEAS
FOGG
While these events were passing at the opium-house,
Mr
...
It was all very well for an
Englishman like Mr
...
He acquitted his task
with characteristic serenity, and invariably replied to the
remonstrances of his fair companion, who was confused by
his patience and generosity:
‘It is in the interest of my journey—a part of my
programme
...
Mr
...
Had he been capable of being astonished at anything, it
would have been not to see his servant return at bedtime
...
When Passepartout did not
appear the next morning to answer his master’s bell, Mr
...
It was then eight o’clock; at half-past nine, it being
then high tide, the Carnatic would leave the harbour
...
Fogg and Aouda got into the palanquin, their luggage
being brought after on a wheelbarrow, and half an hour
later stepped upon the quay whence they were to embark
...
Fogg then learned that the Carnatic had sailed the
evening before
...
’
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At this moment a man who had been observing him
attentively approached
...
Fogg: ‘Were you not, like me, sir, a
passenger by the Rangoon, which arrived yesterday?’
‘I was, sir,’ replied Mr
...
‘But I have not the
honour—‘
‘Pardon me; I thought I should find your servant here
...
‘What!’ responded Fix, feigning surprise
...
‘He has not made his appearance
since yesterday
...
‘Excuse me, did you intend to sail in the Carnatic?’
‘Yes, sir
...
The Carnatic, its repairs being completed, left Hong Kong
twelve hours before the stated time, without any notice
being given; and we must now wait a week for another
steamer
...
Fogg
detained at Hong Kong for a week! There would be time
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for the warrant to arrive, and fortune at last favoured the
representative of the law
...
Fogg say, in his placid voice, ‘But
there are other vessels besides the Carnatic, it seems to me,
in the harbour of Hong Kong
...
Fix, stupefied, followed; it seemed as if he were attached
to Mr
...
Chance, however,
appeared really to have abandoned the man it had hitherto
served so well
...
Fix began to hope
again
...
Fogg, far from being discouraged, was
continuing his search, resolved not to stop if he had to
resort to Macao, when he was accosted by a sailor on one
of the wharves
...
43—the best in
the harbour
...
Will you look
at her?’
‘Yes
...
Is it for a sea
excursion?’
‘No; for a voyage
...
I have missed the Carnatic, and I must get to
Yokohama by the 14th at the latest, to take the boat for
San Francisco
...
’
‘I offer you a hundred pounds per day, and an
additional reward of two hundred pounds if I reach
Yokohama in time
...
’
The pilot walked away a little distance, and gazed out
to sea, evidently struggling between the anxiety to gain a
large sum and the fear of venturing so far
...
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Mr
...
Fogg,’ was her answer
...
‘Well, pilot?’ said Mr
...
‘Well, your honour,’ replied he, ‘I could not risk
myself, my men, or my little boat of scarcely twenty tons
on so long a voyage at this time of year
...
’
‘Only sixteen hundred,’ said Mr
...
‘It’s the same thing
...
‘But,’ added the pilot, ‘it might be arranged another
way
...
‘How?’ asked Mr
...
‘By going to Nagasaki, at the extreme south of Japan,
or even to Shanghai, which is only eight hundred miles
from here
...
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‘Pilot,’ said Mr
...
’
‘Why not?’ returned the pilot
...
It puts in at
Yokohama and Nagasaki, but it starts from Shanghai
...
’
‘And when does the boat leave Shanghai?’
‘On the 11th, at seven in the evening
...
’
‘And you could go—‘
‘In an hour; as soon as provisions could be got aboard
and the sails put up
...
Are you the master of the boat?’
‘Yes; John Bunsby, master of the Tankadere
...
’
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‘Very well
...
’
‘But poor Passepartout?’ urged Aouda, who was much
disturbed by the servant’s disappearance
...
While Fix, in a feverish, nervous state, repaired to the
pilot-boat, the others directed their course to the policestation at Hong Kong
...
The same formalities having
been gone through at the French consulate, and the
palanquin having stopped at the hotel for the luggage,
which had been sent back there, they returned to the
wharf
...
43, with
its crew on board, and its provisions stored away, was
ready for departure
...
Her shining
copper sheathing, her galvanised iron-work, her deck,
white as ivory, betrayed the pride taken by John Bunsby
in making her presentable
...
The crew of the Tankadere was
composed of John Bunsby, the master, and four hardy
mariners, who were familiar with the Chinese seas
...
Phileas Fogg and Aouda went on board, where they
found Fix already installed
...
The accommodation was confined,
but neat
...
Fogg to Fix, who bowed without responding
...
Fogg
...
Mr
...
Fix was not without his fears lest
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chance should direct the steps of the unfortunate servant,
whom he had so badly treated, in this direction; in which
case an explanation the reverse of satisfactory to the
detective must have ensued
...
John Bunsby, master, at length gave the order to start,
and the Tankadere, taking the wind under her brigantine,
foresail, and standing-jib, bounded briskly forward over
the waves
...
The Chinese seas are usually boisterous, subject to
terrible gales of wind, and especially during the equinoxes;
and it was now early November
...
But John Bunsby believed in
the Tankadere, which rode on the waves like a seagull;
and perhaps he was not wrong
...
‘I do not need, pilot,’ said Phileas Fogg, when they got
into the open sea, ‘to advise you to use all possible speed
...
We are carrying all the sail the
wind will let us
...
’
‘Its your trade, not mine, pilot, and I confide in you
...
The young woman, who was seated aft,
was profoundly affected as she looked out upon the ocean,
darkening now with the twilight, on which she had
ventured in so frail a vessel
...
The
boat, carried forward by the wind, seemed to be flying in
the air
...
The moon was entering her first quarter,
and her insufficient light would soon die out in the mist
on the horizon
...
The pilot had hung out his lights, which was very
necessary in these seas crowded with vessels bound
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landward; for collisions are not uncommon occurrences,
and, at the speed she was going, the least shock would
shatter the gallant little craft
...
He kept apart from his fellow-travellers, knowing Mr
...
He was
thinking, too, of the future
...
Fogg’s plan
appeared to him the simplest in the world
...
But, once in the United States, what should he, Fix,
do? Should he abandon this man? No, a hundred times
no! Until he had secured his extradition, he would not
lose sight of him for an hour
...
At all events, there was one
thing to be thankful for; Passepartout was not with his
master; and it was above all important, after the
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confidences Fix had imparted to him, that the servant
should never have speech with his master
...
Looking at the matter from
every point of view, it did not seem to him impossible
that, by some mistake, the man might have embarked on
the Carnatic at the last moment; and this was also Aouda’s
opinion, who regretted very much the loss of the worthy
fellow to whom she owed so much
...
A brisk breeze arose about ten o’clock; but, though it
might have been prudent to take in a reef, the pilot, after
carefully examining the heavens, let the craft remain
rigged as before
...
Mr
...
The pilot and crew
remained on deck all night
...
The log
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indicated a mean speed of between eight and nine miles
...
If the wind held as it was,
the chances would be in her favour
...
The sea was
less boisterous, since the wind came off land—a fortunate
circumstance for the boat, which would suffer, owing to
its small tonnage, by a heavy surge on the sea
...
The pilot put up his poles, but took
them down again within two hours, as the wind freshened
up anew
...
Fogg and Aouda, happily unaffected by the
roughness of the sea, ate with a good appetite, Fix being
invited to share their repast, which he accepted with secret
chagrin
...
Still, he was obliged
to eat, and so he ate
...
Fogg apart, and
said, ‘sir’—this ‘sir’ scorched his lips, and he had to control
himself to avoid collaring this ‘gentleman’—‘sir, you have
been very kind to give me a passage on this boat
...
Fogg
...
Fogg, in a tone which did not
admit of a reply
...
’
Fix, as he bowed, had a stifled feeling, and, going
forward, where he ensconced himself, did not open his
mouth for the rest of the day
...
He several times assured Mr
...
The
crew set to work in good earnest, inspired by the reward
to be gained
...
They
worked as desperately as if they were contesting in a
Royal yacht regatta
...
Fogg might hope that he would be able to reach
Yokohama without recording any delay in his journal; in
which case, the many misadventures which had overtaken
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him since he left London would not seriously affect his
journey
...
The sea was very rough in the straits, full of
eddies formed by the counter-currents, and the chopping
waves broke her course, whilst it became very difficult to
stand on deck
...
The barometer
announced a speedy change, the mercury rising and falling
capriciously; the sea also, in the south-east, raised long
surges which indicated a tempest
...
John Bunsby long examined the threatening aspect of
the heavens, muttering indistinctly between his teeth
...
Fogg, ‘Shall I speak out
to your honour?’
‘Of course
...
’
‘Is the wind north or south?’ asked Mr
...
‘South
...
’
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‘Glad it’s a typhoon from the south, for it will carry us
forward
...
’ John Bunsby’s suspicions were
confirmed
...
The pilot took his precautions in advance
...
A single triangular sail, of strong
canvas, was hoisted as a storm-jib, so as to hold the wind
from behind
...
John Bunsby had requested his passengers to go below;
but this imprisonment in so narrow a space, with little air,
and the boat bouncing in the gale, was far from pleasant
...
Fogg, Fix, nor Aouda consented to leave the
deck
...
With but its bit of sail, the
Tankadere was lifted like a feather by a wind, an idea of
whose violence can scarcely be given
...
The boat scudded thus northward during the whole
day, borne on by monstrous waves, preserving always,
fortunately, a speed equal to theirs
...
The passengers were often bathed in
spray, but they submitted to it philosophically
...
As for
Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part
of his programme
...
The boat, now lying in the trough of the waves, shook
and rolled terribly; the sea struck her with fearful violence
...
John Bunsby
saw the approach of darkness and the rising of the storm
with dark misgivings
...
After a
consultation he approached Mr
...
’
‘I think so too
...
‘But which one?’
‘I know of but one,’ returned Mr
...
‘And that is—‘
‘Shanghai
...
Then he cried, ‘Well—yes! Your honour is right
...
The night was really terrible; it would be a miracle if
the craft did not founder
...
Aouda was exhausted, but did not utter a
complaint
...
Fogg rushed to protect
her from the violence of the waves
...
The tempest still raged with
undiminished fury; but the wind now returned to the
south-east
...
From time to time the coast was visible
through the broken mist, but no vessel was in sight
...
There were some signs of a calm at noon, and these
became more distinct as the sun descended toward the
horizon
...
The
passengers, thoroughly exhausted, could now eat a little,
and take some repose
...
Some of the sails
were again hoisted, and the speed of the boat was very
good
...
A hundred miles, and only
one day to traverse them! That very evening Mr
...
Had there been no storm, during which
several hours were lost, they would be at this moment
within thirty miles of their destination
...
All sails were now hoisted, and at noon the
Tankadere was within forty-five miles of Shanghai
...
All on board feared that it could not be done,
and every one—Phileas Fogg, no doubt, excepted—felt
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his heart beat with impatience
...
Still, the Tankadere was so light, and her
fine sails caught the fickle zephyrs so well, that, with the
aid of the currents John Bunsby found himself at six
o’clock not more than ten miles from the mouth of
Shanghai River
...
At seven they were still three miles
from Shanghai
...
He looked at Mr
...
Mr
...
At this moment, also, a long black funnel, crowned
with wreaths of smoke, appeared on the edge of the
waters
...
‘Confound her!’ cried John Bunsby, pushing back the
rudder with a desperate jerk
...
A small brass cannon stood on the forward deck of the
Tankadere, for making signals in the fogs
...
Fogg said, ‘Hoist your
flag!’
The flag was run up at half-mast, and, this being the
signal of distress, it was hoped that the American steamer,
perceiving it, would change her course a little, so as to
succour the pilot-boat
...
Fogg
...
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Chapter XXII
IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT
FINDS OUT THAT, EVEN AT
THE ANTIPODES, IT IS
CONVENIENT TO HAVE
SOME MONEY IN ONE’S
The Carnatic, setting sail from Hong Kong at half-past
six on the 7th of November, directed her course at full
steam towards Japan
...
Two state-rooms in the rear
were, however, unoccupied—those which had been
engaged by Phileas Fogg
...
It was Passepartout; and what had happened to him was
as follows: Shortly after Fix left the opium den, two
waiters had lifted the unconscious Passepartout, and had
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carried him to the bed reserved for the smokers
...
The thought of a duty unfulfilled
shook off his torpor, and he hurried from the abode of
drunkenness
...
Passepartout had but few steps to go; and,
rushing upon the plank, he crossed it, and fell unconscious
on the deck, just as the Carnatic was moving off
...
Thus he found
himself the next morning on the deck of the Carnatic, and
eagerly inhaling the exhilarating sea-breeze
...
He began to collect his sense, which he
found a difficult task; but at last he recalled the events of
the evening before, Fix’s revelation, and the opium-house
...
Fogg say? At least I
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have not missed the steamer, which is the most important
thing
...
A detective
on the track of Mr
...
Fogg is no more a robber than I am
a murderer
...
Would it not be better to wait until Mr
...
The first thing to do was to find
Mr
...
Passepartout got up and proceeded, as well as he could
with the rolling of the steamer, to the after-deck
...
‘Good!’ muttered he; ‘Aouda has not got up yet, and Mr
...
’
He descended to the saloon
...
Fogg was not there
...
The purser replied that
he did not know any passenger by the name of Fogg
...
‘He
is a tall gentleman, quiet, and not very talkative, and has
with him a young lady—‘
‘There is no young lady on board,’ interrupted the
purser
...
’
Passepartout scanned the list, but his master’s name was
not upon it
...
‘Ah! am I on the Carnatic?’
‘Yes
...
’
Passepartout had for an instant feared that he was on
the wrong boat; but, though he was really on the
Carnatic, his master was not there
...
He saw it all now
...
It was his fault, then, that Mr
...
Yes, but it was
still more the fault of the traitor who, in order to separate
him from his master, and detain the latter at Hong Kong,
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had inveigled him into getting drunk! He now saw the
detective’s trick; and at this moment Mr
...
Ah, if Fix ever came within his reach, what a
settling of accounts there would be!
After his first depression, Passepartout became calmer,
and began to study his situation
...
He found himself on the way to Japan, and
what should he do when he got there? His pocket was
empty; he had not a solitary shilling, not so much as a
penny
...
He fell to at meals with an
appetite, and ate for Mr
...
He
helped himself as generously as if Japan were a desert,
where nothing to eat was to be looked for
...
This is an important port of call in the Pacific,
where all the mail-steamers, and those carrying travellers
between North America, China, Japan, and the Oriental
islands put in
...
The Carnatic anchored at
the quay near the custom-house, in the midst of a crowd
of ships bearing the flags of all nations
...
He had nothing better to
do than, taking chance for his guide, to wander aimlessly
through the streets of Yokohama
...
This quarter
occupied, with its streets, squares, docks, and warehouses,
all the space between the ‘promontory of the Treaty’ and
the river
...
The Frenchman felt himself as much
alone among them as if he had dropped down in the midst
of Hottentots
...
But he shrank
from telling the story of his adventures, intimately
connected as it was with that of his master; and, before
doing so, he determined to exhaust all other means of aid
...
The Japanese quarter of Yokohama is called Benten,
after the goddess of the sea, who is worshipped on the
islands round about
...
The streets were crowded with people
...
Passepartout saw,
too, begging friars, long-robed pilgrims, and simple
civilians, with their warped and jet-black hair, big heads,
long busts, slender legs, short stature, and complexions
varying from copper-colour to a dead white, but never
yellow, like the Chinese, from whom the Japanese widely
differ
...
Passepartout wandered for several hours in the midst of
this motley crowd, looking in at the windows of the rich
and curious shops, the jewellery establishments glittering
with quaint Japanese ornaments, the restaurants decked
with streamers and banners, the tea-houses, where the
odorous beverage was being drunk with saki, a liquor
concocted from the fermentation of rice, and the
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comfortable smoking-houses, where they were puffing,
not opium, which is almost unknown in Japan, but a very
fine, stringy tobacco
...
There he
saw dazzling camellias expanding themselves, with flowers
which were giving forth their last colours and perfumes,
not on bushes, but on trees, and within bamboo
enclosures, cherry, plum, and apple trees, which the
Japanese cultivate rather for their blossoms than their fruit,
and which queerly-fashioned, grinning scarecrows
protected from the sparrows, pigeons, ravens, and other
voracious birds
...
As he was strolling along, Passepartout espied some
violets among the shrubs
...
’
But, on smelling them, he found that they were
odourless
...
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The worthy fellow had certainly taken good care to eat
as hearty a breakfast as possible before leaving the
Carnatic; but, as he had been walking about all day, the
demands of hunger were becoming importunate
...
But he found it necessary to keep up a stout heart, and to
postpone the meal he craved till the following morning
...
Then he came to the harbour, which was lit up by the
resin torches of the fishermen, who were fishing from
their boats
...
Each time
a company passed, Passepartout chuckled, and said to
himself: ‘Good! another Japanese embassy departing for
Europe!’
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Chapter XXIII
IN WHICH
PASSEPARTOUT’S NOSE
BECOMES OUTRAGEOUSLY
LONG
The next morning poor, jaded, famished Passepartout
said to himself that he must get something to eat at all
hazards, and the sooner he did so the better
...
Now or never he must use the strong, if not melodious
voice which nature had bestowed upon him
...
It was, perhaps, rather early in the morning to get up a
concert, and the audience prematurely aroused from their
slumbers, might not possibly pay their entertainer with
coin bearing the Mikado’s features
...
The idea struck him to
change his garments for clothes more in harmony with his
project; by which he might also get a little money to
satisfy the immediate cravings of hunger
...
It was only after a long search that Passepartout
discovered a native dealer in old clothes, to whom he
applied for an exchange
...
A few small pieces of silver,
moreover, jingled in his pocket
...
‘I will imagine I am at the
Carnival!’
His first care, after being thus ‘Japanesed,’ was to enter
a tea-house of modest appearance, and, upon half a bird
and a little rice, to breakfast like a man for whom dinner
was as yet a problem to be solved
...
I can’t sell this costume again for
one still more Japanese
...
’
It occurred to him to visit the steamers which were
about to leave for America
...
Once at San Francisco, he would find some means of
going on
...
Passepartout was not the man to let an idea go begging,
and directed his steps towards the docks
...
What need would they have of a cook or servant on
an American steamer, and what confidence would they
put in him, dressed as he was? What references could he
give?
As he was reflecting in this wise, his eyes fell upon an
immense placard which a sort of clown was carrying
through the streets
...
A quarter of an hour later he
stopped before a large cabin, adorned with several clusters
of streamers, the exterior walls of which were designed to
represent, in violent colours and without perspective, a
company of jugglers
...
That gentleman was a sort of Barnum, the
director of a troupe of mountebanks, jugglers, clowns,
acrobats, equilibrists, and gymnasts, who, according to the
placard, was giving his last performances before leaving the
Empire of the Sun for the States of the Union
...
Batulcar, who
straightway appeared in person
...
‘Would you like a servant, sir?’ asked Passepartout
...
Batulcar, caressing the thick grey
beard which hung from his chin
...
‘So I can be of no use to you?’
‘None
...
Batulcar
...
’
‘That’s true
...
’
‘Then you ought to know how to make grimaces?’
‘Why,’ replied Passepartout, a little vexed that his
nationality should cause this question, ‘we Frenchmen
know how to make grimaces, it is true but not any better
than the Americans do
...
Well, if I can’t take you as a servant, I can as a
clown
...
’
‘Ah!’
‘You are pretty strong, eh?’
‘Especially after a good meal
...
‘But can you sing standing on your head, with a top
spinning on your left foot, and a sabre balanced on your
right?’
‘Humph! I think so,’ replied Passepartout, recalling the
exercises of his younger days
...
The engagement was concluded there and then
...
He was
engaged to act in the celebrated Japanese troupe
...
The performance, so noisily announced by the
Honourable Mr
...
Passepartout, though he
had not been able to study or rehearse a part, was
designated to lend the aid of his sturdy shoulders in the
great exhibition of the ‘human pyramid,’ executed by the
Long Noses of the god Tingou
...
Before three o’clock the large shed was invaded by the
spectators, comprising Europeans and natives, Chinese and
Japanese, men, women and children, who precipitated
themselves upon the narrow benches and into the boxes
opposite the stage
...
The performance was much like all acrobatic displays;
but it must be confessed that the Japanese are the first
equilibrists in the world
...
Another reproduced the most singular
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combinations with a spinning-top; in his hands the
revolving tops seemed to be animated with a life of their
own in their interminable whirling; they ran over pipestems, the edges of sabres, wires and even hairs stretched
across the stage; they turned around on the edges of large
glasses, crossed bamboo ladders, dispersed into all the
corners, and produced strange musical effects by the
combination of their various pitches of tone
...
It is useless to describe the astonishing performances of
the acrobats and gymnasts
...
, was executed with wonderful precision
...
The Long Noses form a peculiar company, under the
direct patronage of the god Tingou
...
These noses were made of bamboo, and were five,
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six, and even ten feet long, some straight, others curved,
some ribboned, and some having imitation warts upon
them
...
A dozen of these sectaries of Tingou lay flat upon their
backs, while others, dressed to represent lightning-rods,
came and frolicked on their noses, jumping from one to
another, and performing the most skilful leapings and
somersaults
...
But, instead of forming a pyramid
by mounting each other’s shoulders, the artists were to
group themselves on top of the noses
...
The poor fellow really felt sad when—melancholy
reminiscence of his youth!—he donned his costume,
adorned with vari-coloured wings, and fastened to his
natural feature a false nose six feet long
...
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He went upon the stage, and took his place beside the
rest who were to compose the base of the Car of
Juggernaut
...
A second group of
artists disposed themselves on these long appendages, then
a third above these, then a fourth, until a human
monument reaching to the very cornices of the theatre
soon arose on top of the noses
...
Abandoning his position,
clearing the footlights without the aid of his wings, and,
clambering up to the right-hand gallery, he fell at the feet
of one of the spectators, crying, ‘Ah, my master! my
master!’
‘You here?’
‘Myself
...
Fogg, Aouda, and Passepartout passed through the
lobby of the theatre to the outside, where they
encountered the Honourable Mr
...
He demanded damages for the ‘breakage’ of the
pyramid; and Phileas Fogg appeased him by giving him a
handful of banknotes
...
Fogg
and Aouda, followed by Passepartout, who in his hurry
had retained his wings, and nose six feet long, stepped
upon the American steamer
...
FOGG
AND PARTY CROSS THE
PACIFIC OCEAN
What happened when the pilot-boat came in sight of
Shanghai will be easily guessed
...
Phileas Fogg, after
paying the stipulated price of his passage to John Busby,
and rewarding that worthy with the additional sum of five
hundred and fifty pounds, ascended the steamer with
Aouda and Fix; and they started at once for Nagasaki and
Yokohama
...
Phileas Fogg lost no time in going on
board the Carnatic, where he learned, to Aouda’s great
delight—and perhaps to his own, though he betrayed no
emotion—that Passepartout, a Frenchman, had really
arrived on her the day before
...
Mr
...
Chance, or perhaps a kind of
presentiment, at last led him into the Honourable Mr
...
He certainly would not have recognised
Passepartout in the eccentric mountebank’s costume; but
the latter, lying on his back, perceived his master in the
gallery
...
All this Passepartout learned from Aouda, who
recounted to him what had taken place on the voyage
from Hong Kong to Shanghai on the Tankadere, in
company with one Mr
...
Passepartout did not change countenance on hearing
this name
...
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Mr
...
Within an
hour the Frenchman had cut off his nose and parted with
his wings, and retained nothing about him which recalled
the sectary of the god Tingou
...
She was a large paddle-wheel steamer of two thousand five
hundred tons; well equipped and very fast
...
The General Grant was rigged with three
masts, giving a large capacity for sails, and thus materially
aiding the steam power
...
Phileas
Fogg was therefore justified in hoping that he would reach
San Francisco by the 2nd of December, New York by the
11th, and London on the 20th—thus gaining several hours
on the fatal date of the 21st of December
...
Nothing of moment happened on the
voyage; the steamer, sustained on its large paddles, rolled
but little, and the Pacific almost justified its name
...
Fogg was as calm and taciturn as ever
...
Aouda
took the keenest interest in his plans, and became
impatient at any incident which seemed likely to retard his
journey
...
He took
pains to calm Aouda’s doubts of a successful termination of
the journey, telling her that the most difficult part of it had
passed, that now they were beyond the fantastic countries
of Japan and China, and were fairly on their way to
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civilised places again
...
On the ninth day after leaving Yokohama, Phileas Fogg
had traversed exactly one half of the terrestrial globe
...
Mr
...
But,
though he was only half-way by the difference of
meridians, he had really gone over two-thirds of the
whole journey; for he had been obliged to make long
circuits from London to Aden, from Aden to Bombay,
from Calcutta to Singapore, and from Singapore to
Yokohama
...
And now the course
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was a straight one, and Fix was no longer there to put
obstacles in their way!
It happened also, on the 23rd of November, that
Passepartout made a joyful discovery
...
Now, on this day, though he
had not changed the hands, he found that his watch
exactly agreed with the ship’s chronometers
...
He would have liked to know what Fix
would say if he were aboard!
‘The rogue told me a lot of stories,’ repeated
Passepartout, ‘about the meridians, the sun, and the moon!
Moon, indeed! moonshine more likely! If one listened to
that sort of people, a pretty sort of time one would keep! I
was sure that the sun would some day regulate itself by my
watch!’
Passepartout was ignorant that, if the face of his watch
had been divided into twenty-four hours, like the Italian
clocks, he would have no reason for exultation; for the
hands of his watch would then, instead of as now
indicating nine o’clock in the morning, indicate nine
o’clock in the evening, that is, the twenty-first hour after
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midnight precisely the difference between London time
and that of the one hundred and eightieth meridian
...
Moreover, if the detective had been on
board at that moment, Passepartout would have joined
issue with him on a quite different subject, and in an
entirely different manner
...
On reaching Yokohama, the detective, leaving Mr
...
It had followed him from
Bombay, and had come by the Carnatic, on which
steamer he himself was supposed to be
...
Mr
...
The
rogue evidently intends to return to his own country,
thinking he has thrown the police off his track
...
As for the money,
heaven grant there may be some left! But the fellow has
already spent in travelling, rewards, trials, bail, elephants,
and all sorts of charges, more than five thousand pounds
...
Fogg and Aouda arrived
...
He quickly concealed
himself in his cabin, to avoid an awkward explanation, and
hoped—thanks to the number of passengers—to remain
unperceived by Mr
...
On that very day, however, he met Passepartout face to
face on the forward deck
...
When Passepartout had finished, he found himself
relieved and comforted
...
’
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‘Then let me have a word with you
...
’
Passepartout seemed to be vanquished by Fix’s
coolness, for he quietly followed him, and they sat down
aside from the rest of the passengers
...
‘Good, I
expected it
...
Up to this time I have
been Mr
...
I am now in his game
...
Sh! don’t
budge, and let me speak
...
Fogg was on
English ground, it was for my interest to detain him there
until my warrant of arrest arrived
...
I sent the Bombay priests after him, I
got you intoxicated at Hong Kong, I separated you from
him, and I made him miss the Yokohama steamer
...
‘Now,’ resumed Fix, ‘Mr
...
Well, I will follow him there
...
I’ve changed
my game, you see, and simply because it was for my
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interest to change it
...
’
Passepartout listened very attentively to Fix, and was
convinced that he spoke with entire good faith
...
‘Friends?—no,’ replied Passepartout; ‘but allies,
perhaps
...
’
‘Agreed,’ said the detective quietly
...
Mr
...
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Chapter XXV
IN WHICH A SLIGHT
GLIMPSE IS HAD OF SAN
FRANCISCO
It was seven in the morning when Mr
...
These quays, rising and falling with the
tide, thus facilitate the loading and unloading of vessels
...
There were also heaped up the products of a
commerce which extends to Mexico, Chili, Peru, Brazil,
Europe, Asia, and all the Pacific islands
...
Put out of
countenance by the manner in which he thus ‘set foot’
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upon the New World, he uttered a loud cry, which so
frightened the innumerable cormorants and pelicans that
are always perched upon these movable quays, that they
flew noisily away
...
Fogg, on reaching shore, proceeded to find out at
what hour the first train left for New York, and learned
that this was at six o’clock p
...
; he had, therefore, an
entire day to spend in the Californian capital
...
From his exalted position Passepartout observed with
much curiosity the wide streets, the low, evenly ranged
houses, the Anglo-Saxon Gothic churches, the great
docks, the palatial wooden and brick warehouses, the
numerous conveyances, omnibuses, horse-cars, and upon
the side-walks, not only Americans and Europeans, but
Chinese and Indians
...
San Francisco was no longer the legendary city of
1849—a city of banditti, assassins, and incendiaries, who
had flocked hither in crowds in pursuit of plunder; a
paradise of outlaws, where they gambled with gold-dust, a
revolver in one hand and a bowie-knife in the other: it
was now a great commercial emporium
...
Sombreros and red shirts and plumed
Indians were rarely to be seen; but there were silk hats and
black coats everywhere worn by a multitude of nervously
active, gentlemanly-looking men
...
When Passepartout reached the International Hotel, it
did not seem to him as if he had left England at all
...
Payment was
made only for the ale, porter, or sherry which was drunk
...
The hotel
refreshment-rooms were comfortable, and Mr
...
After breakfast, Mr
...
As he was going out, he met Passepartout, who
asked him if it would not be well, before taking the train,
to purchase some dozens of Enfield rifles and Colt’s
revolvers
...
Mr
...
He had not proceeded two hundred steps, however,
when, ‘by the greatest chance in the world,’ he met Fix
...
What!
Had Mr
...
Mr
...
Fogg readily
granted
...
Men were going
about carrying large posters, and flags and streamers were
floating in the wind; while loud cries were heard on every
hand
...
Fogg, ‘Perhaps we had better not mingle
with the crowd
...
’
‘Yes,’ returned Mr
...
’
Fix smiled at this remark; and, in order to be able to see
without being jostled about, the party took up a position
on the top of a flight of steps situated at the upper end of
Montgomery Street
...
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For what purpose was this meeting? What was the
occasion of this excited assemblage? Phileas Fogg could
not imagine
...
Just at this moment there was an unusual stir in the
human mass
...
Some,
tightly closed, seemed to disappear suddenly in the midst
of the cries—an energetic way, no doubt, of casting a
vote
...
The undulations of the human surge reached the steps,
while all the heads floundered on the surface like a sea
agitated by a squall
...
‘It is evidently a meeting,’ said Fix, ‘and its object must
be an exciting one
...
’
‘Perhaps,’ replied Mr
...
‘At least, there are two champions in presence of each
other, the Honourable Mr
...
Mandiboy
...
Fogg’s arm, observed the
tumultuous scene with surprise, while Fix asked a man
near him what the cause of it all was
...
Thumps were exchanged from the tops of the
carriages and omnibuses which had been blocked up in the
crowd
...
Fogg thought he even heard the crack of
revolvers mingling in the din, the rout approached the
stairway, and flowed over the lower step
...
‘It would be prudent for us to retire,’ said Fix, who was
anxious that Mr
...
‘If there is any
question about England in all this, and we were
recognised, I fear it would go hard with us
...
Fogg
...
Mr
...
The torrent of men, armed with
loaded canes and sticks, was irresistible
...
A big brawny
fellow with a red beard, flushed face, and broad shoulders,
who seemed to be the chief of the band, raised his
clenched fist to strike Mr
...
An enormous bruise immediately made its
appearance under the detective’s silk hat, which was
completely smashed in
...
Fogg, darting a contemptuous
look at the ruffian
...
‘We will meet again!’
‘When you please
...
And yours?’
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‘Colonel Stamp Proctor
...
Happily, he was not seriously hurt
...
Aouda had
escaped unharmed, and Fix alone bore marks of the fray in
his black and blue bruise
...
Fogg to the detective, as soon as
they were out of the crowd
...
Fix; ‘but let us go
...
’
Such a visit was, indeed, opportune
...
Fogg and Fix was in rags, as if they had
themselves been actively engaged in the contest between
Camerfield and Mandiboy
...
Passepartout was waiting for his master, armed with half
a dozen six-barrelled revolvers
...
Fix evidently was no longer an enemy, but an
ally; he was faithfully keeping his word
...
As he was getting in, Mr
...
’
‘I will come back to America to find him,’ said Phileas
Fogg calmly
...
’
The detective smiled, but did not reply
...
Fogg was one of those Englishmen who, while
they do not tolerate duelling at home, fight abroad when
their honour is attacked
...
As he was about to
enter it, Mr
...
‘But I thought there was a great deal of disturbance in
the streets
...
’
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‘The election of a general-in-chief, no doubt?’ asked
Mr
...
‘No, sir; of a justice of the peace
...
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Chapter XXVI
IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG
AND PARTY TRAVEL BY THE
PACIFIC RAILROAD
‘From ocean to ocean’—so say the Americans; and
these four words compose the general designation of the
‘great trunk line’ which crosses the entire width of the
United States
...
Five main lines connect
Omaha with New York
...
Between Omaha and the Pacific the railway crosses a
territory which is still infested by Indians and wild beasts,
and a large tract which the Mormons, after they were
driven from Illinois in 1845, began to colonise
...
It is now accomplished in
seven days
...
President Lincoln himself fixed the end of
the line at Omaha, in Nebraska
...
The road grew, on the prairies, a mile
and a half a day
...
The Pacific Railroad is joined by several branches in
Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, and Oregon
...
Such was the road to be traversed in seven days, which
would enable Phileas Fogg—at least, so he hoped—to take
the Atlantic steamer at New York on the 11th for
Liverpool
...
It was supplied with two rows of seats,
perpendicular to the direction of the train on either side of
an aisle which conducted to the front and rear platforms
...
It was supplied with saloon cars, balcony cars,
restaurants, and smoking-cars; theatre cars alone were
wanting, and they will have these some day
...
The train left Oakland station at six o’clock
...
The
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train did not proceed rapidly; counting the stoppages, it
did not run more than twenty miles an hour, which was a
sufficient speed, however, to enable it to reach Omaha
within its designated time
...
Passepartout found himself beside the detective; but he did
not talk to him
...
Fix’s manner had not changed; but Passepartout was very
reserved, and ready to strangle his former friend on the
slightest provocation
...
At eight o’clock a steward entered the car and
announced that the time for going to bed had arrived; and
in a few minutes the car was transformed into a dormitory
...
The sheets were clean and
the pillows soft
...
The country between San Francisco and Sacramento is
not very hilly
...
The line from San Francisco to Sacramento runs
in a north-easterly direction, along the American River,
which empties into San Pablo Bay
...
The train, on leaving Sacramento, and passing the
junction, Roclin, Auburn, and Colfax, entered the range
of the Sierra Nevada
...
The railway track wound in
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and out among the passes, now approaching the
mountain-sides, now suspended over precipices, avoiding
abrupt angles by bold curves, plunging into narrow defiles,
which seemed to have no outlet
...
There were few or no bridges or tunnels on the route
...
The train entered the State of Nevada through the
Carson Valley about nine o’clock, going always
northeasterly; and at midday reached Reno, where there
was a delay of twenty minutes for breakfast
...
Having breakfasted, Mr
...
Sometimes a
great herd of buffaloes, massing together in the distance,
seemed like a moveable dam
...
The locomotive is
then forced to stop and wait till the road is once more
clear
...
Fogg
was travelling
...
The locomotive, slackening its speed, tried to clear the
way with its cow-catcher; but the mass of animals was too
great
...
There was
no use of interrupting them, for, having taken a particular
direction, nothing can moderate and change their course;
it is a torrent of living flesh which no dam could contain
...
Passepartout was furious at the delay they occasioned,
and longed to discharge his arsenal of revolvers upon
them
...
‘Mere cattle stop the trains,
and go by in a procession, just as if they were not
impeding travel! Parbleu! I should like to know if Mr
...
He would have crushed the first buffaloes, no
doubt, with the cow-catcher; but the locomotive,
however powerful, would soon have been checked, the
train would inevitably have been thrown off the track, and
would then have been helpless
...
The procession of buffaloes lasted three full hours, and it
was night before the track was clear
...
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It was eight o’clock when the train passed through the
defiles of the Humboldt Range, and half-past nine when it
penetrated Utah, the region of the Great Salt Lake, the
singular colony of the Mormons
...
Passepartout, about nine o’clock, went out upon the
platform to take the air
...
The sun’s disc,
enlarged by the mist, seemed an enormous ring of gold,
and Passepartout was amusing himself by calculating its
value in pounds sterling, when he was diverted from this
interesting study by a strange-looking personage who
made his appearance on the platform
...
He might have been taken for
a clergyman
...
Passepartout approached and read one of these notices,
which stated that Elder William Hitch, Mormon
missionary, taking advantage of his presence on train No
...
117, from eleven to twelve o’clock; and that he invited all
who were desirous of being instructed concerning the
mysteries of the religion of the ‘Latter Day Saints’ to
attend
...
He knew nothing
of Mormonism except the custom of polygamy, which is
its foundation
...
117
...
Neither Mr
...
At the appointed hour Elder William Hitch rose, and,
in an irritated voice, as if he had already been
contradicted, said, ‘I tell you that Joe Smith is a martyr,
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that his brother Hiram is a martyr, and that the
persecutions of the United States Government against the
prophets will also make a martyr of Brigham Young
...
No doubt his anger arose from the hardships to
which the Mormons were actually subjected
...
It had made
itself master of Utah, and subjected that territory to the
laws of the Union, after imprisoning Brigham Young on a
charge of rebellion and polygamy
...
Elder Hitch, as is
seen, was trying to make proselytes on the very railway
trains
...
Several of the audience, not being much interested in
the missionary’s narrative, here left the car; but Elder
Hitch, continuing his lecture, related how Smith, junior,
with his father, two brothers, and a few disciples, founded
the church of the ‘Latter Day Saints,’ which, adopted not
only in America, but in England, Norway and Sweden,
and Germany, counts many artisans, as well as men
engaged in the liberal professions, among its members;
how a colony was established in Ohio, a temple erected
there at a cost of two hundred thousand dollars, and a
town built at Kirkland; how Smith became an enterprising
banker, and received from a simple mummy showman a
papyrus scroll written by Abraham and several famous
Egyptians
...
But this did not disconcert the
enthusiast, who proceeded with the story of Joseph
Smith’s bankruptcy in 1837, and how his ruined creditors
gave him a coat of tar and feathers; his reappearance some
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years afterwards, more honourable and honoured than
ever, at Independence, Missouri, the chief of a flourishing
colony of three thousand disciples, and his pursuit thence
by outraged Gentiles, and retirement into the Far West
...
Thus he
learned that, after long persecutions, Smith reappeared in
Illinois, and in 1839 founded a community at Nauvoo, on
the Mississippi, numbering twenty-five thousand souls, of
which he became mayor, chief justice, and general-inchief; that he announced himself, in 1843, as a candidate
for the Presidency of the United States; and that finally,
being drawn into ambuscade at Carthage, he was thrown
into prison, and assassinated by a band of men disguised in
masks
...
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‘And this,’ added Elder William Hitch, ‘this is why the
jealousy of Congress has been aroused against us! Why
have the soldiers of the Union invaded the soil of Utah?
Why has Brigham Young, our chief, been imprisoned, in
contempt of all justice? Shall we yield to force? Never!
Driven from Vermont, driven from Illinois, driven from
Ohio, driven from Missouri, driven from Utah, we shall
yet find some independent territory on which to plant our
tents
...
During the lecture the train had been making good
progress, and towards half-past twelve it reached the
northwest border of the Great Salt Lake
...
It is a picturesque expanse,
framed in lofty crags in large strata, encrusted with white
salt— a superb sheet of water, which was formerly of
larger extent than now, its shores having encroached with
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the lapse of time, and thus at once reduced its breadth and
increased its depth
...
Quite different from Lake Asphaltite, whose depression is
twelve hundred feet below the sea, it contains considerable
salt, and one quarter of the weight of its water is solid
matter, its specific weight being 1,170, and, after being
distilled, 1,000
...
The country around the lake was well cultivated, for
the Mormons are mostly farmers; while ranches and pens
for domesticated animals, fields of wheat, corn, and other
cereals, luxuriant prairies, hedges of wild rose, clumps of
acacias and milk-wort, would have been seen six months
later
...
The train reached Ogden at two o’clock, where it
rested for six hours, Mr
...
The founder of
the City of the Saints could not escape from the taste for
symmetry which distinguishes the Anglo-Saxons
...
The travellers, then, were promenading, at three
o’clock, about the streets of the town built between the
banks of the Jordan and the spurs of the Wahsatch Range
...
A clay and pebble wall,
built in 1853, surrounded the town; and in the principal
street were the market and several hotels adorned with
pavilions
...
The
streets were almost deserted, except in the vicinity of the
temple, which they only reached after having traversed
several quarters surrounded by palisades
...
They are free to
marry or not, as they please; but it is worth noting that it
is mainly the female citizens of Utah who are anxious to
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marry, as, according to the Mormon religion, maiden
ladies are not admitted to the possession of its highest joys
...
Some—the more well-to-do, no doubt— wore
short, open, black silk dresses, under a hood or modest
shawl; others were habited in Indian fashion
...
His common sense pitied,
above all, the husband
...
He
felt decidedly repelled from such a vocation, and he
imagined—perhaps he was mistaken— that the fair ones of
Salt Lake City cast rather alarming glances on his person
...
At four the party
found themselves again at the station, took their places in
the train, and the whistle sounded for starting
...
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one
...
He was breathless with running
...
He rushed
along the track, jumped on the rear platform of the train,
and fell, exhausted, into one of the seats
...
When the Mormon had recovered his breath,
Passepartout ventured to ask him politely how many wives
he had; for, from the manner in which he had decamped,
it might be thought that he had twenty at least
...
From this point it took an easterly direction towards the
jagged Wahsatch Mountains
...
But the engineers, instead of violating nature, avoided its
difficulties by winding around, instead of penetrating the
rocks
...
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The track up to this time had reached its highest
elevation at the Great Salt Lake
...
There were many
creeks in this mountainous region, and it was necessary to
cross Muddy Creek, Green Creek, and others, upon
culverts
...
At ten o’clock at night the train stopped at Fort Bridger
station, and twenty minutes later entered Wyoming
Territory, following the valley of Bitter Creek
throughout
...
Snow had
fallen abundantly during the night, but, being mixed with
rain, it had half melted, and did not interrupt their
progress
...
Fogg’s tour
...
‘Why did my master
make this journey in winter? Couldn’t he have waited for
the good season to increase his chances?’
While the worthy Frenchman was absorbed in the state
of the sky and the depression of the temperature, Aouda
was experiencing fears from a totally different cause
...
Not wishing to be recognised, the young woman
drew back from the window, feeling much alarm at her
discovery
...
She did not comprehend, perhaps, the depth of
the sentiment with which her protector inspired her,
which she called gratitude, but which, though she was
unconscious of it, was really more than that
...
Fogg desired, sooner or later, to call to account for his
conduct
...
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Aouda seized a moment when Mr
...
‘That Proctor on this train!’ cried Fix
...
Fogg; he has
got to deal with me! It seems to me that I was the more
insulted of the two
...
’
‘Mr
...
Fogg will allow no one
to avenge him
...
Should he perceive Colonel
Proctor, we could not prevent a collision which might
have terrible results
...
’
‘You are right, madam,’ replied Fix; ‘a meeting
between them might ruin all
...
Fogg would be delayed, and—‘
‘And,’ added Passepartout, ‘that would play the game of
the gentlemen of the Reform Club
...
Well, if my master does not leave this
car during those four days, we may hope that chance will
not bring him face to face with this confounded
American
...
’
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The conversation dropped
...
Fogg had just woke up,
and was looking out of the window
...
Was there any means of detaining Mr
...
The detective, at
least, seemed to have found a way; for, after a few
moments, he said to Mr
...
’
‘Yes,’ replied Mr
...
’
‘You were in the habit of playing whist,’ resumed Fix,
‘on the steamers
...
I have
neither cards nor partners
...
And as for partners, if madam
plays—‘
‘Certainly, sir,’ Aouda quickly replied; ‘I understand
whist
...
’
‘I myself have some pretensions to playing a good
game
...
Passepartout was dispatched in search of the steward,
and soon returned with two packs of cards, some pins,
counters, and a shelf covered with cloth
...
Aouda understood whist
sufficiently well, and even received some compliments on
her playing from Mr
...
As for the detective, he was
simply an adept, and worthy of being matched against his
present opponent
...
He
won’t budge
...
After going about
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two hundred miles, the travellers at last found themselves
on one of those vast plains which extend to the Atlantic,
and which nature has made so propitious for laying the
iron road
...
The
whole northern and eastern horizon was bounded by the
immense semi-circular curtain which is formed by the
southern portion of the Rocky Mountains, the highest
being Laramie Peak
...
On the right rose
the lower spurs of the mountainous mass which extends
southward to the sources of the Arkansas River, one of the
great tributaries of the Missouri
...
There was reason to hope, then, that no accident would
mark the journey through this difficult country
...
Large
birds, frightened by the locomotive, rose and flew off in
the distance
...
It was a
desert in its vast nakedness
...
Fogg and his partners had just resumed whist, when a
violent whistling was heard, and the train stopped
...
Aouda and Fix feared that Mr
...
’
Passepartout rushed out of the car
...
The train had stopped before a red signal which
blocked the way
...
The passengers drew around and took part in
the discussion, in which Colonel Proctor, with his insolent
manner, was conspicuous
...
The bridge at Medicine Bow is
shaky, and would not bear the weight of the train
...
According to the signal-man, it was in a ruinous
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condition, several of the iron wires being broken; and it
was impossible to risk the passage
...
It may be taken for
granted that, rash as the Americans usually are, when they
are prudent there is good reason for it
...
‘Hum!’ cried Colonel Proctor; ‘but we are not going to
stay here, I imagine, and take root in the snow?’
‘Colonel,’ replied the conductor, ‘we have telegraphed
to Omaha for a train, but it is not likely that it will reach
Medicine Bow is less than six hours
...
‘Certainly,’ returned the conductor, ‘besides, it will
take us as long as that to reach Medicine Bow on foot
...
‘Yes, but it’s on the other side of the river
...
‘That’s impossible
...
It
is a rapid, and we shall have to make a circuit of ten miles
to the north to find a ford
...
Here was an obstacle, indeed, which all
his master’s banknotes could not remove
...
They grumbled and protested, and
would certainly have thus attracted Phileas Fogg’s
attention if he had not been completely absorbed in his
game
...
’
‘On the bridge?’ asked a passenger
...
’
‘With our train?’
‘With our train
...
‘But the bridge is unsafe,’ urged the conductor
...
’
‘The devil!’ muttered Passepartout
...
He told stories about engineers leaping their trains
over rivers without bridges, by putting on full steam; and
many of those present avowed themselves of the
engineer’s mind
...
‘Eighty! ninety!’
Passepartout was astounded, and, though ready to
attempt anything to get over Medicine Creek, thought the
experiment proposed a little too American
...
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‘I know it,’ said Passepartout, turning to another
passenger, ‘but a simple idea—‘
‘Ideas are no use,’ returned the American, shrugging his
shoulders, ‘as the engineer assures us that we can pass
...
‘At full speed, don’t
you see, at full speed!’
‘I know—I see,’ repeated Passepartout; ‘but it would
be, if not more prudent, since that word displeases you, at
least more natural—‘
‘Who! What! What’s the matter with this fellow?’ cried
several
...
‘Are you afraid?’ asked Colonel Proctor
...
‘Yes, all aboard!’ repeated Passepartout, and
immediately
...
The passengers
resumed their places in the cars
...
The whist-players were
quite absorbed in their game
...
Then, with another whistle, he began to move forward;
the train increased its speed, and soon its rapidity became
frightful; a prolonged screech issued from the locomotive;
the piston worked up and down twenty strokes to the
second
...
And they passed over! It was like a flash
...
The train leaped, so to speak, from one bank
to the other, and the engineer could not stop it until it had
gone five miles beyond the station
...
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IN WHICH CERTAIN
INCIDENTS ARE NARRATED
WHICH ARE ONLY TO BE
MET WITH ON AMERICAN
RAILROADS
The train pursued its course, that evening, without
interruption, passing Fort Saunders, crossing Cheyne Pass,
and reaching Evans Pass
...
The travellers
had now only to descend to the Atlantic by limitless
plains, levelled by nature
...
The
country round about is rich in gold and silver, and more
than fifty thousand inhabitants are already settled there
...
Phileas Fogg was not as yet behindhand
...
They entered Nebraska at eleven, passed near
Sedgwick, and touched at Julesburg, on the southern
branch of the Platte River
...
Two powerful locomotives,
carrying nine cars of invited guests, amongst whom was
Thomas C
...
Thus was
celebrated the inauguration of this great railroad, a mighty
instrument of progress and civilisation, thrown across the
desert, and destined to link together cities and towns
which do not yet exist
...
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Fort McPherson was left behind at eight in the
morning, and three hundred and fifty-seven miles had yet
to be traversed before reaching Omaha
...
At nine the train stopped at
the important town of North Platte, built between the
two arms of the river, which rejoin each other around it
and form a single artery, a large tributary, whose waters
empty into the Missouri a little above Omaha
...
Mr
...
Fix had begun by winning several guineas, which
he seemed likely to lose; but he showed himself a not less
eager whist-player than Mr
...
During the morning,
chance distinctly favoured that gentleman
...
Once, having resolved on a bold stroke, he was on the
point of playing a spade, when a voice behind him said, ‘I
should play a diamond
...
Fogg, Aouda, and Fix raised their heads, and
beheld Colonel Proctor
...
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‘Ah! it’s you, is it, Englishman?’ cried the colonel; ‘it’s
you who are going to play a spade!’
‘And who plays it,’ replied Phileas Fogg coolly,
throwing down the ten of spades
...
He made a movement as if to seize the card which had
just been played, adding, ‘You don’t understand anything
about whist
...
‘You have only to try, son of John Bull,’ replied the
colonel
...
She seized
Mr
...
Passepartout
was ready to pounce upon the American, who was staring
insolently at his opponent
...
Fix,’ said Mr
...
The colonel has again insulted me,
by insisting that I should not play a spade, and he shall give
me satisfaction for it
...
’
Aouda in vain attempted to retain Mr
...
Passepartout wished to throw the colonel out of the
window, but a sign from his master checked him
...
‘Sir,’ said Mr
...
’
‘Well, what’s that to me?’ replied Colonel Proctor
...
Fogg, very politely, ‘after our meeting at
San Francisco, I determined to return to America and find
you as soon as I had completed the business which called
me to England
...
’
‘All this is an evasion,’ cried Stamp Proctor
...
You are going to New York?’
‘No
...
’
‘To Omaha?’
‘What difference is it to you? Do you know Plum
Creek?’
‘No,’ replied Mr
...
‘It’s the next station
...
In ten minutes several
revolver-shots could be exchanged
...
Fogg
...
’
‘And I guess you’ll stay there too,’ added the American
insolently
...
Fogg, returning to the car as
coolly as usual
...
Mr
...
At eleven o’clock the locomotive’s whistle announced
that they were approaching Plum Creek station
...
Fogg
rose, and, followed by Fix, went out upon the platform
...
Aouda remained in the car, as pale as death
...
But just as the combatants were
about to step from the train, the conductor hurried up,
and shouted, ‘You can’t get off, gentlemen!’
‘Why not?’ asked the colonel
...
’
‘But I am going to fight a duel with this gentleman
...
There’s the bell ringing now
...
‘I’m really very sorry, gentlemen,’ said the conductor
...
But, after all, as you have not had time to
fight here, why not fight as we go along?
‘That wouldn’t be convenient, perhaps, for this
gentleman,’ said the colonel, in a jeering tone
...
‘Well, we are really in America,’ thought Passepartout,
‘and the conductor is a gentleman of the first order!’
So muttering, he followed his master
...
The last car
was only occupied by a dozen passengers, whom the
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conductor politely asked if they would not be so kind as to
leave it vacant for a few moments, as two gentlemen had
an affair of honour to settle
...
The car, which was some fifty feet long, was very
convenient for their purpose
...
Never was
duel more easily arranged
...
Fogg and Colonel Proctor,
each provided with two six-barrelled revolvers, entered
the car
...
They were to begin firing at the first whistle of the
locomotive
...
Nothing could be more simple
...
They were listening for the whistle
agreed upon, when suddenly savage cries resounded in the
air, accompanied by reports which certainly did not issue
from the car where the duellists were
...
Cries
of terror proceeded from the interior of the cars
...
Fogg, revolvers in hand,
hastily quitted their prison, and rushed forward where the
noise was most clamorous
...
This was not the first attempt of these daring Indians,
for more than once they had waylaid trains on the road
...
The Sioux were armed with guns, from which came
the reports, to which the passengers, who were almost all
armed, responded by revolver-shots
...
A Sioux chief, wishing to stop the train, but not
knowing how to work the regulator, had opened wide
instead of closing the steam-valve, and the locomotive was
plunging forward with terrific velocity
...
Penetrating the baggage-car, they pillaged it,
throwing the trunks out of the train
...
The travellers defended themselves bravely;
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some of the cars were barricaded, and sustained a siege,
like moving forts, carried along at a speed of a hundred
miles an hour
...
She
defended herself like a true heroine with a revolver, which
she shot through the broken windows whenever a savage
made his appearance
...
Several
passengers, shot or stunned, lay on the seats
...
Fort
Kearney station, where there was a garrison, was only two
miles distant; but, that once passed, the Sioux would be
masters of the train between Fort Kearney and the station
beyond
...
Fogg, when he
was shot and fell
...
‘Stay, monsieur,’ cried Passepartout; ‘I will go
...
Fogg had not time to stop the brave fellow, who,
opening a door unperceived by the Indians, succeeded in
slipping under the car; and while the struggle continued
and the balls whizzed across each other over his head, he
made use of his old acrobatic experience, and with
amazing agility worked his way under the cars, holding on
to the chains, aiding himself by the brakes and edges of the
sashes, creeping from one car to another with marvellous
skill, and thus gaining the forward end of the train
...
The train, now detached
from the engine, remained a little behind, whilst the
locomotive rushed forward with increased speed
...
The soldiers of the fort, attracted by the shots, hurried
up; the Sioux had not expected them, and decamped in a
body before the train entirely stopped
...
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IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG
SIMPLY DOES HIS DUTY
Three passengers including Passepartout had
disappeared
...
There were many wounded, but none mortally
...
He
was carried into the station with the other wounded
passengers, to receive such attention as could be of avail
...
Fix was
slightly wounded in the arm
...
All the passengers had got out of the train, the wheels
of which were stained with blood
...
As far as the eye could
reach on the white plain behind, red trails were visible
...
Mr
...
He
had a serious decision to make
...
If his servant was a prisoner, ought he not to risk
everything to rescue him from the Indians? ‘I will find
him, living or dead,’ said he quietly to Aouda
...
—Mr
...
‘Living,’ added Mr
...
’
Phileas Fogg, by this resolution, inevitably sacrificed
himself; he pronounced his own doom
...
But as he thought, ‘It
is my duty,’ he did not hesitate
...
A
hundred of his soldiers had placed themselves in a position
to defend the station, should the Sioux attack it
...
Fogg to the captain, ‘three passengers
have disappeared
...
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‘Dead or prisoners; that is the uncertainty which must
be solved
...
‘These Indians may retreat beyond the Arkansas, and I
cannot leave the fort unprotected
...
‘Doubtless; but can I risk the lives of fifty men to save
three?’
‘I don’t know whether you can, sir; but you ought to
do so
...
’
‘Very well,’ said Mr
...
‘I will go alone
...
’
‘No, sir, you shall not go alone,’ cried the captain,
touched in spite of himself
...
Thirty volunteers!’ he added, turning to the soldiers
...
The
captain had only to pick his men
...
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‘Thanks, captain,’ said Mr
...
‘Will you let me go with you?’ asked Fix
...
But if you wish to do me a
favour, you will remain with Aouda
...
Separate himself from the man whom he had so
persistently followed step by step! Leave him to wander
about in this desert! Fix gazed attentively at Mr
...
‘I will stay,’ said he
...
Fogg pressed the young
woman’s hand, and, having confided to her his precious
carpet-bag, went off with the sergeant and his little squad
...
’
It was then a little past noon
...
He had sacrificed his
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fortune, and was now risking his life, all without
hesitation, from duty, in silence
...
He walked feverishly up and down
the platform, but soon resumed his outward composure
...
What! This man, whom he had just
followed around the world, was permitted now to separate
himself from him! He began to accuse and abuse himself,
and, as if he were director of police, administered to
himself a sound lecture for his greenness
...
He has gone, and won’t come back! But how is it
that I, Fix, who have in my pocket a warrant for his arrest,
have been so fascinated by him? Decidedly, I am nothing
but an ass!’
So reasoned the detective, while the hours crept by all
too slowly
...
Sometimes he
was tempted to tell Aouda all; but he could not doubt
how the young woman would receive his confidences
...
Footsteps were easily printed on
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the snow! But soon, under a new sheet, every imprint
would be effaced
...
He felt a sort of
insurmountable longing to abandon the game altogether
...
Towards two o’clock in the afternoon, while it was
snowing hard, long whistles were heard approaching from
the east
...
No train was expected from the
east, neither had there been time for the succour asked for
by telegraph to arrive; the train from Omaha to San
Francisco was not due till the next day
...
The locomotive, which was slowly approaching with
deafening whistles, was that which, having been detached
from the train, had continued its route with such terrific
rapidity, carrying off the unconscious engineer and stoker
...
Neither the engineer nor the stoker was dead,
and, after remaining for some time in their swoon, had
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come to themselves
...
The
engineer, when he found himself in the desert, and the
locomotive without cars, understood what had happened
...
He did not hesitate what to do
...
Nevertheless, he began to rebuild the
fire in the furnace; the pressure again mounted, and the
locomotive returned, running backwards to Fort Kearney
...
The travellers were glad to see the locomotive resume
its place at the head of the train
...
Aouda, on seeing the locomotive come up, hurried out
of the station, and asked the conductor, ‘Are you going to
start?’
‘At once, madam
...
‘We
are already three hours behind time
...
’
‘To-morrow evening! But then it will be too late! We
must wait—‘
‘It is impossible,’ responded the conductor
...
’
‘I will not go,’ said Aouda
...
A little while before,
when there was no prospect of proceeding on the journey,
he had made up his mind to leave Fort Kearney; but now
that the train was there, ready to start, and he had only to
take his seat in the car, an irresistible influence held him
back
...
The conflict in his mind again began; anger and
failure stifled him
...
Meanwhile the passengers and some of the wounded,
among them Colonel Proctor, whose injuries were
serious, had taken their places in the train
...
The engineer whistled, the train
started, and soon disappeared, mingling its white smoke
with the eddies of the densely falling snow
...
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Several hours passed
...
Fix sat motionless on a bench in the station;
he might have been thought asleep
...
She heard and saw nothing
...
Evening came, and the little band had not returned
...
As
night approached, the snow fell less plentifully, but it
became intensely cold
...
Neither flight of bird nor passing of beast troubled
the perfect calm
...
Her imagination carried her far off,
and showed her innumerable dangers
...
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Fix remained stationary in the same place, but did not
sleep
...
Thus the night passed
...
Phileas Fogg
and the squad had gone southward; in the south all was
still vacancy
...
The captain, who was really alarmed, did not know
what course to take
...
Calling one of his lieutenants,
he was on the point of ordering a reconnaissance, when
gunshots were heard
...
Mr
...
They had met and fought the Indians ten miles south of
Fort Kearney
...
All were welcomed with joyful cries
...
Fogg, and it
would have been difficult to analyse the thoughts which
struggled within him
...
Meanwhile, Passepartout was looking about for the
train; he thought he should find it there, ready to start for
Omaha, and he hoped that the time lost might be
regained
...
‘Gone,’ replied Fix
...
‘Not till this evening
...
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Chapter XXXI
IN WHICH FIX, THE
DETECTIVE, CONSIDERABLY
FURTHERS THE INTERESTS
OF PHILEAS FOGG
Phileas Fogg found himself twenty hours behind time
...
He had ruined his master!
At this moment the detective approached Mr
...
’
‘I have a purpose in asking,’ resumed Fix
...
’
‘And, if your journey had not been interrupted by these
Indians, you would have reached New York on the
morning of the 11th?’
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‘Yes; with eleven hours to spare before the steamer
left
...
Twelve
from twenty leaves eight
...
Do you wish to try to do so?’
‘On foot?’ asked Mr
...
‘No; on a sledge,’ replied Fix
...
A
man has proposed such a method to me
...
Phileas Fogg did not reply at once; but Fix, having
pointed out the man, who was walking up and down in
front of the station, Mr
...
An instant
after, Mr
...
There Mr
...
A high mast was fixed on the frame,
held firmly by metallic lashings, to which was attached a
large brigantine sail
...
Behind, a sort of rudder served to
guide the vehicle
...
During the winter, when the trains are blocked up
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by the snow, these sledges make extremely rapid journeys
across the frozen plains from one station to another
...
Mr
...
The wind was favourable, being fresh, and
blowing from the west
...
Fogg in a few hours to Omaha
...
It was not
impossible that the lost time might yet be recovered; and
such an opportunity was not to be rejected
...
Fogg proposed to leave her
with Passepartout at Fort Kearney, the servant taking upon
himself to escort her to Europe by a better route and
under more favourable conditions
...
Fogg, and Passepartout was delighted
with her decision; for nothing could induce him to leave
his master while Fix was with him
...
Was this conviction shaken by Phileas Fogg’s return, or
did he still regard him as an exceedingly shrewd rascal,
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who, his journey round the world completed, would
think himself absolutely safe in England? Perhaps Fix’s
opinion of Phileas Fogg was somewhat modified; but he
was nevertheless resolved to do his duty, and to hasten the
return of the whole party to England as much as possible
...
The
passengers took their places on it, and wrapped themselves
up closely in their travelling-cloaks
...
The distance between Fort Kearney and Omaha, as the
birds fly, is at most two hundred miles
...
What a journey! The travellers, huddled close together,
could not speak for the cold, intensified by the rapidity at
which they were going
...
When the breeze came skimming the
earth the sledge seemed to be lifted off the ground by its
sails
...
All the sails were up,
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and the jib was so arranged as not to screen the brigantine
...
Although the speed
could not be exactly estimated, the sledge could not be
going at less than forty miles an hour
...
Fogg had made it for Mudge’s interest to reach
Omaha within the time agreed on, by the offer of a
handsome reward
...
It seemed like a vast frozen
lake
...
It followed throughout the right
bank of the Platte River
...
Mudge was not afraid of being stopped by the Platte
River, because it was frozen
...
But the breeze, far from lessening its force, blew as if to
bend the mast, which, however, the metallic lashings held
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firmly
...
The
sledge slid along in the midst of a plaintively intense
melody
...
Fogg
...
Aouda, cosily packed in furs and cloaks, was
sheltered as much as possible from the attacks of the
freezing wind
...
With his natural buoyancy of spirits,
he began to hope again
...
Passepartout even felt a strong desire to grasp his ally,
Fix, by the hand
...
One thing, however, Passepartout
would never forget, and that was the sacrifice which Mr
...
Mr
...
No! His servant would never forget that!
While each of the party was absorbed in reflections so
different, the sledge flew past over the vast carpet of snow
...
Fields and
streams disappeared under the uniform whiteness
...
Between the Union Pacific
road and the branch which unites Kearney with Saint
Joseph it formed a great uninhabited island
...
From time to time they
sped by some phantom-like tree, whose white skeleton
twisted and rattled in the wind
...
Passepartout, revolver
in hand, held himself ready to fire on those which came
too near
...
About noon Mudge perceived by certain landmarks
that he was crossing the Platte River
...
In less than an hour he left the rudder and furled
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his sails, whilst the sledge, carried forward by the great
impetus the wind had given it, went on half a mile further
with its sails unspread
...
Fogg and the young woman
to descend from the sledge
...
The Pacific Railroad proper finds its terminus at this
important Nebraska town
...
A train was ready to start when Mr
...
They had seen nothing of Omaha; but Passepartout
confessed to himself that this was not to be regretted, as
they were not travelling to see the sights
...
During the
night it crossed the Mississippi at Davenport, and by Rock
Island entered Illinois
...
Nine hundred miles separated Chicago from New
York; but trains are not wanting at Chicago
...
Fogg
passed at once from one to the other, and the locomotive
of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railway left
at full speed, as if it fully comprehended that that
gentleman had no time to lose
...
At last the Hudson came
into view; and, at a quarter-past eleven in the evening of
the 11th, the train stopped in the station on the right bank
of the river, before the very pier of the Cunard line
...
None of the other steamers were
able to serve his projects
...
The Inman steamer did not depart till
the next day, and could not cross the Atlantic in time to
save the wager
...
Fogg learned all this in consulting his Bradshaw,
which gave him the daily movements of the trans-Atlantic
steamers
...
It was his fault, for,
instead of helping his master, he had not ceased putting
obstacles in his path! And when he recalled all the
incidents of the tour, when he counted up the sums
expended in pure loss and on his own account, when he
thought that the immense stake, added to the heavy
charges of this useless journey, would completely ruin Mr
...
Mr
...
Come
...
Nicholas
Hotel, on Broadway
...
The next day was the 12th of December
...
If Phileas Fogg had left in the
China, one of the fastest steamers on the Atlantic, he
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would have reached Liverpool, and then London, within
the period agreed upon
...
Fogg left the hotel alone, after giving Passepartout
instructions to await his return, and inform Aouda to be
ready at an instant’s notice
...
Several had departure signals, and were preparing
to put to sea at morning tide; for in this immense and
admirable port there is not one day in a hundred that
vessels do not set out for every quarter of the globe
...
He seemed about to give up all hope, when he espied,
anchored at the Battery, a cable’s length off at most, a
trading vessel, with a screw, well-shaped, whose funnel,
puffing a cloud of smoke, indicated that she was getting
ready for departure
...
He ascended to the deck, and asked for the captain,
who forthwith presented himself
...
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‘The captain?’ asked Mr
...
‘I am the captain
...
’
‘And I am Andrew Speedy, of Cardiff
...
’
‘You are bound for—‘
‘Bordeaux
...
Going in ballast
...
Never have passengers
...
’
‘Is your vessel a swift one?’
‘Between eleven and twelve knots
...
’
‘Will you carry me and three other persons to
Liverpool?’
‘To Liverpool? Why not to China?’
‘I said Liverpool
...
I am setting out for Bordeaux, and shall go to
Bordeaux
...
’
The captain spoke in a tone which did not admit of a
reply
...
‘The owners are myself,’ replied the captain
...
’
‘I will freight it for you
...
’
‘I will buy it of you
...
’
Phileas Fogg did not betray the least disappointment;
but the situation was a grave one
...
Up to this time money
had smoothed away every obstacle
...
Still, some means must be found to cross the Atlantic
on a boat, unless by balloon—which would have been
venturesome, besides not being capable of being put in
practice
...
’
‘I offer you two thousand
...
’
‘And there are four of you?’
‘Four
...
There were
eight thousand dollars to gain, without changing his route;
for which it was well worth conquering the repugnance
he had for all kinds of passengers
...
‘I start at nine o’clock,’ said Captain Speedy,
simply
...
Fogg
...
To disembark from the
Henrietta, jump into a hack, hurry to the St
...
Fogg with the coolness which never abandoned him
...
When Passepartout heard what this last voyage was
going to cost, he uttered a prolonged ‘Oh!’ which
extended throughout his vocal gamut
...
When they reached England, even if Mr
...
During the day she skirted
Long Island, passed Fire Island, and directed her course
rapidly eastward
...
It might be thought that this
was Captain Speedy
...
It was
Phileas Fogg, Esquire
...
What had happened was very simple
...
Then Phileas Fogg had taken passage for
Bordeaux, and, during the thirty hours he had been on
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board, had so shrewdly managed with his banknotes that
the sailors and stokers, who were only an occasional crew,
and were not on the best terms with the captain, went
over to him in a body
...
It was very
clear, to see Mr
...
How the adventure ended will be seen anon
...
As for Passepartout,
he thought Mr
...
The
captain had said ‘between eleven and twelve knots,’ and
the Henrietta confirmed his prediction
...
It is true
that, once arrived, the affair on board the Henrietta, added
to that of the Bank of England, might create more
difficulties for Mr
...
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During the first days, they went along smoothly
enough
...
Passepartout was delighted
...
Never
had the crew seen so jolly and dexterous a fellow
...
He thought they managed
the vessel like gentlemen, and that the stokers fired up like
heroes
...
He had forgotten the past, its vexations and delays
...
Often, also, the worthy
fellow revolved around Fix, looking at him with a keen,
distrustful eye; but he did not speak to him, for their old
intimacy no longer existed
...
The conquest of the Henrietta, the bribery
of the crew, Fogg managing the boat like a skilled seaman,
amazed and confused him
...
For, after all, a man who began by stealing fifty-five
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thousand pounds might end by stealing a vessel; and Fix
was not unnaturally inclined to conclude that the
Henrietta under Fogg’s command, was not going to
Liverpool at all, but to some part of the world where the
robber, turned into a pirate, would quietly put himself in
safety
...
As for Captain Speedy, he continued to howl and
growl in his cabin; and Passepartout, whose duty it was to
carry him his meals, courageous as he was, took the
greatest precautions
...
Fogg did not seem even to know
that there was a captain on board
...
Ever since the evening before the barometer, suddenly
falling, had indicated an approaching change in the
atmosphere; and during the night the temperature varied,
the cold became sharper, and the wind veered to the
south-east
...
Mr
...
She pitched violently, and this retarded
her progress
...
Passepartout’s visage darkened with the skies, and for
two days the poor fellow experienced constant fright
...
The Henrietta,
when she could not rise upon the waves, crossed them,
swamping her deck, but passing safely
...
The wind, however, did not grow as boisterous as
might have been feared; it was not one of those tempests
which burst, and rush on with a speed of ninety miles an
hour
...
The 16th of December was the seventy-fifth day since
Phileas Fogg’s departure from London, and the Henrietta
had not yet been seriously delayed
...
In summer, success would have been well-nigh
certain
...
Passepartout said nothing; but he cherished hope
in secret, and comforted himself with the reflection that, if
the wind failed them, they might still count on the steam
...
Fogg, and began to speak earnestly with him
...
He would have
given one of his ears to hear with the other what the
engineer was saying
...
‘You must
remember that, since we started, we have kept up hot fires
in all our furnaces, and, though we had coal enough to go
on short steam from New York to Bordeaux, we haven’t
enough to go with all steam from New York to
Liverpool
...
Fogg
...
The coal was giving out! ‘Ah, if my master
can get over that,’ muttered he, ‘he’ll be a famous man!’
He could not help imparting to Fix what he had
overheard
...
’
‘Ass!’ replied the detective, shrugging his shoulders and
turning on his heel
...
And now what course would Phileas Fogg adopt? It
was difficult to imagine
...
’
A few moments after, the funnel of the Henrietta
vomited forth torrents of smoke
...
‘Do not let the fires go down,’ replied Mr
...
‘Keep
them up to the last
...
’
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Towards noon Phileas Fogg, having ascertained their
position, called Passepartout, and ordered him to go for
Captain Speedy
...
He went to the poop,
saying to himself, ‘He will be like a madman!’
In a few moments, with cries and oaths, a bomb
appeared on the poop-deck
...
It was clear that he was on the point of bursting
...
Had the poor man be an apoplectic, he could
never have recovered from his paroxysm of wrath
...
‘Seven hundred and seven miles from Liverpool,’
replied Mr
...
‘Pirate!’ cried Captain Speedy
...
Fogg, ‘to ask you to sell me your
vessel
...
’
‘Burn the Henrietta!’
‘Yes; at least the upper part of her
...
’
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‘Burn my vessel!’ cried Captain Speedy, who could
scarcely pronounce the words
...
This had a prodigious effect
on Andrew Speedy
...
The
captain forgot in an instant his anger, his imprisonment,
and all his grudges against his passenger
...
The bomb
would not go off after all
...
Fogg had taken away the
match
...
‘The iron hull and the engine
...
’
And Andrew Speedy, seizing the banknotes, counted
them and consigned them to his pocket
...
Nearly twenty thousand pounds had been expended,
and Fogg left the hull and engine to the captain, that is,
near the whole value of the craft! It was true, however,
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that fifty-five thousand pounds had been stolen from the
Bank
...
Fogg said to him, ‘Don’t let this astonish you, sir
...
I missed the steamer at
New York, and as you refused to take me to Liverpool—‘
‘And I did well!’ cried Andrew Speedy; ‘for I have
gained at least forty thousand dollars by it!’ He added,
more sedately, ‘Do you know one thing, Captain—‘
‘Fogg
...
’
And, having paid his passenger what he considered a
high compliment, he was going away, when Mr
...
’
‘Very well
...
’
It was necessary to have dry wood to keep the steam up
to the adequate pressure, and on that day the poop, cabins,
bunks, and the spare deck were sacrificed
...
Passepartout hewed, cut, and sawed away with all his
might
...
The railings, fittings, the greater part of the deck, and
top sides disappeared on the 20th, and the Henrietta was
now only a flat hulk
...
By ten in the evening they were
passing Queenstown
...
And
the steam was about to give out altogether!
‘Sir,’ said Captain Speedy, who was now deeply
interested in Mr
...
Everything is against you
...
’
‘Ah,’ said Mr
...
’
‘Can we enter the harbour?’
‘Not under three hours
...
’
‘Stay,’ replied Mr
...
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Queenstown is the Irish port at which the transAtlantic steamers stop to put off the mails
...
Phileas Fogg counted on gaining twelve hours in the
same way
...
The Henrietta entered Queenstown Harbour at one
o’clock in the morning, it then being high tide; and
Phileas Fogg, after being grasped heartily by the hand by
Captain Speedy, left that gentleman on the levelled hulk
of his craft, which was still worth half what he had sold it
for
...
Fix was greatly
tempted to arrest Mr
...
Why? What struggle was going on within him? Had he
changed his mind about ‘his man’? Did he understand that
he had made a grave mistake? He did not, however,
abandon Mr
...
They all got upon the train, which
was just ready to start, at half-past one; at dawn of day
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they were in Dublin; and they lost no time in embarking
on a steamer which, disdaining to rise upon the waves,
invariably cut through them
...
He was
only six hours distant from London
...
Fogg’s shoulder, and, showing his warrant, said, ‘You
are really Phileas Fogg?’
‘I am
...
He had been shut up in the
Custom House, and he was to be transferred to London
the next day
...
Aouda was thunderstruck at the suddenness of
an event which she could not understand
...
The young
woman’s heart revolted against so heinous a charge, and
when she saw that she could attempt to do nothing to save
her protector, she wept bitterly
...
Fogg because it was his
duty, whether Mr
...
The thought then struck Passepartout, that he was the
cause of this new misfortune! Had he not concealed Fix’s
errand from his master? When Fix revealed his true
character and purpose, why had he not told Mr
...
Passepartout wept till he was blind, and felt like blowing
his brains out
...
Neither wished to leave
the place; both were anxious to see Mr
...
That gentleman was really ruined, and that at the
moment when he was about to attain his end
...
Having arrived at Liverpool at twenty minutes
before twelve on the 21st of December, he had till a
quarter before nine that evening to reach the Reform
Club, that is, nine hours and a quarter; the journey from
Liverpool to London was six hours
...
Fogg seated, motionless,
calm, and without apparent anger, upon a wooden bench
...
Was
he being devoured by one of those secret rages, all the
more terrible because contained, and which only burst
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forth, with an irresistible force, at the last moment? No
one could tell
...
Fogg carefully put
his watch upon the table, and observed its advancing
hands
...
The situation, in any event, was a
terrible one, and might be thus stated: if Phileas Fogg was
honest he was ruined; if he was a knave, he was caught
...
But the door was locked, and the
window heavily barred with iron rods
...
On the line where
these words were written, ‘21st December, Saturday,
Liverpool,’ he added, ‘80th day, 11
...
m
...
The Custom House clock struck one
...
Fogg
observed that his watch was two hours too fast
...
m
...
At thirty-three minutes past two he heard a singular
noise outside, then a hasty opening of doors
...
Phileas Fogg’s eyes brightened for an instant
...
Fix was out of breath, and his hair was in disorder
...
‘Sir,’ he stammered, ‘sir—forgive me—
most— unfortunate resemblance— robber arrested three
days ago—you are free!’
Phileas Fogg was free! He walked to the detective,
looked him steadily in the face, and with the only rapid
motion he had ever made in his life, or which he ever
would make, drew back his arms, and with the precision
of a machine knocked Fix down
...
He had only received his deserts
...
Fogg, Aouda,
and Passepartout left the Custom House without delay,
got into a cab, and in a few moments descended at the
station
...
It was forty minutes past two
...
Phileas
Fogg then ordered a special train
...
At that hour Phileas Fogg, having stimulated the
engineer by the offer of a generous reward, at last set out
towards London with Aouda and his faithful servant
...
But there were forced delays, and when Mr
...
’
Having made the tour of the world, he was behindhand five minutes
...
His doors and windows were
still closed, no appearance of change was visible
...
Fogg gave Passepartout
instructions to purchase some provisions, and quietly went
to his domicile
...
Ruined! And by the blundering of the detective! After
having steadily traversed that long journey, overcome a
hundred obstacles, braved many dangers, and still found
time to do some good on his way, to fail near the goal by
a sudden event which he could not have foreseen, and
against which he was unarmed; it was terrible! But a few
pounds were left of the large sum he had carried with him
...
So great had been the
expense of his tour that, even had he won, it would not
have enriched him; and it is probable that he had not
sought to enrich himself, being a man who rather laid
wagers for honour’s sake than for the stake proposed
...
Mr
...
A room in the house in Saville Row was set apart for
Aouda, who was overwhelmed with grief at her
protector’s misfortune
...
Fogg
dropped, she saw that he was meditating some serious
project
...
First of all, the worthy fellow had gone up to his room,
and had extinguished the gas burner, which had been
burning for eighty days
...
The night passed
...
Fogg went to bed, but did he
sleep? Aouda did not once close her eyes
...
Mr
...
He desired Aouda to excuse him from breakfast
and dinner, as his time would be absorbed all day in
putting his affairs to rights
...
Passepartout, having received his orders, had nothing to
do but obey them
...
His heart
was full, and his conscience tortured by remorse; for he
accused himself more bitterly than ever of being the cause
of the irretrievable disaster
...
Fogg, and had betrayed Fix’s projects to him, his master
would certainly not have given the detective passage to
Liverpool, and then—
Passepartout could hold in no longer
...
Fogg!’ he cried, ‘why do you not
curse me? It was my fault that—‘
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‘I blame no one,’ returned Phileas Fogg, with perfect
calmness
...
‘Madam,’ he added, ‘I can do nothing myself—
nothing! I have no influence over my master; but you,
perhaps—‘
‘What influence could I have?’ replied Aouda
...
Fogg is influenced by no one
...
’
‘We shall see,’ replied Aouda, becoming suddenly
pensive
...
Why should he present himself at the Reform? His
friends no longer expected him there
...
It was not even necessary that he
should go to his bankers for the twenty thousand pounds;
for his antagonists already had his cheque in their hands,
and they had only to fill it out and send it to the Barings
to have the amount transferred to their credit
...
Fogg, therefore, had no reason for going out, and
so he remained at home
...
Passepartout
continually ascended and descended the stairs
...
He listened at his master’s door, and
looked through the keyhole, as if he had a perfect right so
to do, and as if he feared that something terrible might
happen at any moment
...
Fix, like all the world, had been
mistaken in Phileas Fogg, and had only done his duty in
tracking and arresting him; while he, Passepartout…
...
Finding himself too wretched to remain alone, he
knocked at Aouda’s door, went into her room, seated
himself, without speaking, in a corner, and looked ruefully
at the young woman
...
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About half-past seven in the evening Mr
...
Phileas Fogg took a chair, and sat down near the
fireplace, opposite Aouda
...
Fogg returned was exactly the Fogg who had gone
away; there was the same calm, the same impassibility
...
Fogg!’ replied Aouda, checking the pulsations of
her heart
...
Fogg
...
But now I am
ruined
...
Fogg,’ replied Aouda; ‘and I ask you in
my turn, will you forgive me for having followed you,
and—who knows?—for having, perhaps, delayed you, and
thus contributed to your ruin?’
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‘Madam, you could not remain in India, and your
safety could only be assured by bringing you to such a
distance that your persecutors could not take you
...
Fogg,’ resumed Aouda, ‘not content with
rescuing me from a terrible death, you thought yourself
bound to secure my comfort in a foreign land?’
‘Yes, madam; but circumstances have been against me
...
’
‘But what will become of you, Mr
...
’
‘But how do you look upon the fate, sir, which awaits
you?’
‘As I am in the habit of doing
...
Your friends—‘
‘I have no friends, madam
...
’
‘I pity you, then, Mr
...
They say,
though, that misery itself, shared by two sympathetic souls,
may be borne with patience
...
’
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‘Mr
...
Fogg, at this, rose in his turn
...
Aouda looked into his face
...
He shut
his eyes for an instant, as if to avoid her look
...
‘Yes, by
all that is holiest, I love you, and I am entirely yours!’
‘Ah!’ cried Aouda, pressing his hand to her heart
...
Mr
...
Mr
...
Passepartout smiled his most genial smile, and said,
‘Never too late
...
‘Will it be for to-morrow, Monday?’
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‘For to-morrow, Monday,’ said Mr
...
‘Yes; for to-morrow, Monday,’ she replied
...
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Chapter XXXVI
IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG’S
NAME IS ONCE MORE AT A
PREMIUM ON ‘CHANGE
It is time to relate what a change took place in English
public opinion when it transpired that the real bankrobber,
a certain James Strand, had been arrested, on the 17th day
of December, at Edinburgh
...
The papers resumed their discussion about the wager;
all those who had laid bets, for or against him, revived
their interest, as if by magic; the ‘Phileas Fogg bonds’
again became negotiable, and many new wagers were
made
...
His five friends of the Reform Club passed these three
days in a state of feverish suspense
...
Was he dead? Had he abandoned the effort,
or was he continuing his journey along the route agreed
upon? And would he appear on Saturday, the 21st of
December, at a quarter before nine in the evening, on the
threshold of the Reform Club saloon?
The anxiety in which, for three days, London society
existed, cannot be described
...
Messengers
were dispatched to the house in Saville Row morning and
evening
...
The police were ignorant what had
become of the detective, Fix, who had so unfortunately
followed up a false scent
...
Phileas Fogg, like a racehorse, was
drawing near his last turning-point
...
A great crowd was collected in Pall Mall and the
neighbouring streets on Saturday evening; it seemed like a
multitude of brokers permanently established around the
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Reform Club
...
The police had great difficulty in keeping back the
crowd, and as the hour when Phileas Fogg was due
approached, the excitement rose to its highest pitch
...
John Sullivan and Samuel
Fallentin, the bankers, Andrew Stuart, the engineer,
Gauthier Ralph, the director of the Bank of England, and
Thomas Flanagan, the brewer, one and all waited
anxiously
...
Fogg and
ourselves will have expired
...
‘At twenty-three minutes past seven,’ replied Gauthier
Ralph; ‘and the next does not arrive till ten minutes after
twelve
...
We can, therefore, regard the bet as won
...
‘You know that Mr
...
His
punctuality is well known; he never arrives too soon, or
too late; and I should not be surprised if he appeared
before us at the last minute
...
’
‘The fact is,’ resumed Thomas Flanagan, ‘Mr
...
Whatever his punctuality, he
could not prevent the delays which were certain to occur;
and a delay of only two or three days would be fatal to his
tour
...
’
‘He has lost, gentleman,’ said Andrew Stuart, ‘he has a
hundred times lost! You know, besides, that the China the
only steamer he could have taken from New York to get
here in time arrived yesterday
...
Even if we admit that fortune has favoured him, he
can scarcely have reached America
...
’
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‘It is clear,’ replied Gauthier Ralph; ‘and we have
nothing to do but to present Mr
...
’
At this moment, the hands of the club clock pointed to
twenty minutes to nine
...
The five gentlemen looked at each other
...
Fallentin’s proposal of a rubber
...
’
The clock indicated eighteen minutes to nine
...
Certainly, however secure they
felt, minutes had never seemed so long to them!
‘Seventeen minutes to nine,’ said Thomas Flanagan, as
he cut the cards which Ralph handed to him
...
The great saloon
was perfectly quiet; but the murmurs of the crowd outside
were heard, with now and then a shrill cry
...
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‘Sixteen minutes to nine!’ said John Sullivan, in a voice
which betrayed his emotion
...
Andrew Stuart and his partners suspended their game
...
At the fortieth second, nothing
...
At the fifty-fifth, a loud cry was heard in the street,
followed by applause, hurrahs, and some fierce growls
...
At the fifty-seventh second the door of the saloon
opened; and the pendulum had not beat the sixtieth
second when Phileas Fogg appeared, followed by an
excited crowd who had forced their way through the club
doors, and in his calm voice, said, ‘Here I am, gentlemen!’
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Chapter XXXVII
IN WHICH IT IS SHOWN
THAT PHILEAS FOGG GAINED
NOTHING BY HIS TOUR
AROUND THE WORLD,
UNLESS IT WERE HAPPINESS
Yes; Phileas Fogg in person
...
Passepartout went on his errand enchanted
...
Passepartout waited a good twenty minutes, and
when he left the reverend gentleman, it was thirty-five
minutes past eight
...
In three minutes he was in Saville Row again, and
staggered back into Mr
...
He could not speak
...
Fogg
...
’
‘Why so?’
‘Because to-morrow—is Sunday!’
‘Monday,’ replied Mr
...
‘No—to-day is Saturday
...
‘You have made
a mistake of one day! We arrived twenty-four hours ahead
of time; but there are only ten minutes left!’
Passepartout had seized his master by the collar, and
was dragging him along with irresistible force
...
The clock indicated a quarter before nine when he
appeared in the great saloon
...
Phileas Fogg had, without suspecting it, gained one day
on his journey, and this merely because he had travelled
constantly eastward; he would, on the contrary, have lost a
day had he gone in the opposite direction, that is,
westward
...
There
are three hundred and sixty degrees on the circumference
of the earth; and these three hundred and sixty degrees,
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multiplied by four minutes, gives precisely twenty-four
hours—that is, the day unconsciously gained
...
This is why
they awaited him at the Reform Club on Saturday, and
not Sunday, as Mr
...
And Passepartout’s famous family watch, which had
always kept London time, would have betrayed this fact, if
it had marked the days as well as the hours and the
minutes!
Phileas Fogg, then, had won the twenty thousand
pounds; but, as he had spent nearly nineteen thousand on
the way, the pecuniary gain was small
...
He
divided the one thousand pounds that remained between
Passepartout and the unfortunate Fix, against whom he
cherished no grudge
...
That evening, Mr
...
Fogg,’ replied she, ‘it is for me to ask that
question
...
’
‘Pardon me, madam; my fortune belongs to you
...
Fogg!’ said the young woman
...
It need not be said that the marriage took place fortyeight hours after, and that Passepartout, glowing and
dazzling, gave the bride away
...
Mr
...
’
‘No doubt,’ returned Mr
...
But if I had not crossed India, I should not have saved
Aouda; she would not have been my wife, and—‘
Mr
...
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Phileas Fogg had won his wager, and had made his
journey around the world in eighty days
...
The eccentric gentleman had throughout
displayed all his marvellous qualities of coolness and
exactitude