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Around the World in 80 Days
The guide’s eyes glistened.
‘Your honour is giving me a fortune!’ cried he.
‘Take him, guide,’ returned Mr. Fogg, ‘and I shall still
be your debtor.’
‘Good!’ exclaimed Passepartout. ‘Take him, friend.
Kiouni is a brave and faithful beast.’ And, going up to the
elephant, he gave him several lumps of sugar, saying,
‘Here, Kiouni, here, here.’
The elephant grunted out his satisfaction, and, clasping
Passepartout around the waist with his trunk, lifted him as
high as his head. Passepartout, not in the least alarmed,
caressed the animal, which replaced him gently on the
ground.
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.
It was a run of eighty miles, and was accomplished in two
hours. During the journey, the young woman fully
recovered her senses. What was her astonishment to find
herself in this carriage, on the railway, dressed in European
habiliments, and with travellers who were quite strangers
to her! Her companions first set about fully reviving her
with a little liquor, and then Sir Francis narrated to her
what had passed, dwelling upon the courage with which
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