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On this very 2nd of October he had dismissed James Forster, because that luckless youth had brought him shaving-water at eighty-four degrees Fahrenheit instead of eighty-six;
"Jean Passepartout, a surname which has clung to me because I have a natural aptness for going out of one business into another.
"You are four minutes too slow. No matter; it's enough to mention the error. Now from this moment, twenty-nine minutes after
eleven, a.m., this Wednesday, 2nd October, you are in my service."
He was so exact that he was never in a hurry, was always ready, and was economical alike of his steps and his motions. He never took one step too many, and always went to his destination by the shortest cut;
What a domestic and regular gentleman! A real machine; well, I don't mind serving a machine."
Andrew Stuart, an engineer; John Sullivan and Samuel Fallentin, bankers; Thomas Flanagan, a brewer; and Gauthier Ralph, one of the Directors of the Bank of England—all rich and highly respectable personages,
The world is big enough." "It was once," said Phileas Fogg,
"At once. Only I warn you that I shall do it at your expense."
will wager the four thousand on it."
"Twenty thousand pounds, which you would lose by a single accidental delay!"
"As today is Wednesday, the 2nd of October, I shall be due in London in this very room of the Reform Club, on Saturday, the 21st of December, at a quarter before nine p.m.; or else the twenty thousand pounds, now deposited in my name at Baring's, will belong to you, in fact and in right, gentlemen. Here is a cheque for the amount."
mournfully asked for alms. Mr. Fogg took out the twenty guineas he had just won at whist, and handed them to the beggar, saying, "Here, my good woman. I'm glad that I met you;" and passed on.
"In eighty days; on Saturday, the 21st of December, 1872, at a quarter before nine p.m.
crossing India in three days, and the United States in seven, could he rely beyond misgiving upon accomplishing his task? There were accidents to machinery, the liability of trains to run off the line, collisions, bad weather, the blocking up by snow—were not all these against Phileas Fogg? Would he not find himself, when travelling by steamer in winter, at the mercy of the winds and fogs? Is it uncommon for the best ocean steamers to be two or three days behind time? But a single delay would suffice to fatally break the chain of communication; should Phileas Fogg once miss, even by an hour; a
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"Phileas Fogg bonds" were offered at par or at a premium, and a great business was done in them.
"great robbers always resemble honest folks.
motion of surprise nearly escaped him, for the description in the passport was identical with that of the bank robber which he had received from Scotland Yard.
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.
"An offence has been committed on Indian soil. I've got my man."
Sir Francis Cromarty,
blaming Mr. Fogg for not having bribed the engineer. The worthy fellow was ignorant that, while it was possible by such means to hasten the rate of a steamer, it could not be done on the railway.
therefore the days were shorter by four minutes for each degree gone over,
At two
Would he carry him on with him? Impossible! The cost of transporting him would make him ruinously expensive. Would he sell him, or set him free?
"A procession of Brahmins is coming this way. We must prevent their seeing us, if possible."
"A suttee," returned the general, "is a human sacrifice, but a voluntary one.
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.
"The sacrifice which will take place to-morrow at dawn is not a voluntary one."
"Suppose we save this woman."
His master's idea charmed him; he perceived a heart, a soul, under that icy exterior. He began to love Phileas Fogg.
celebrated beauty of the Parsee race,
She had received a thoroughly English education in that city, and, from her manners and intelligence, would be thought an European. Her name was Aouda. Left an orphan, she was married against her will to the old rajah of Bundelcund;
Happily the temple walls were built of brick and wood,
after one brick had been taken out, the rest would yield easily.
The old rajah was not dead, then, since he rose of a sudden, like a spectre, took up his wife in his arms, and descended from the pyre in the midst of the clouds of smoke, which only heightened his ghostly appearance.
It was Passepartout who, playing his part with a happy audacity, had passed through the crowd amid the general terror.
"Her shining tresses, divided in two parts, encircle the harmonious contour of her white and delicate cheeks, brilliant in their glow and freshness. 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 teeth, fine, equal, and white, glitter between her smiling lips like dewdrops in a passion-flower's half-enveloped breast. Her delicately formed ears, her vermilion hands, her little feet, curved and
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"Parsee," said he to the guide, "you have been serviceable and devoted. I have paid for your service, but not for your devotion. Would you like to have this elephant? He is yours."
Benares was Sir Francis Cromarty's destination,
He bade adieu to Phileas Fogg, wishing him all success,
"Inasmuch," resumed the judge, "as the English law protects equally and sternly the religions of the Indian people, and as the man Passepartout has admitted that he violated the sacred pagoda of Malabar Hill, at Bombay, on the 20th of October, I condemn the said Passepartout to imprisonment for fifteen days and a fine of three hundred pounds."
Phileas Fogg to a week's imprisonment and a fine of one hundred and fifty pounds."
judge announce that the bail required for each prisoner would be one thousand pounds.
"The rascal is off, after all!" he exclaimed. "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. Fogg had already spent more than five thousand pounds on the way, and the percentage of the sum recovered from the bank robber
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.
"I offer you a hundred pounds per day, and an additional reward of two hundred pounds if I reach Yokohama in time."
John Bunsby,
he fell at the feet of one of the spectators, crying, "Ah, my master! my master!"
