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Around the World in 80 Days
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. He might,
indeed, sell his watch; but he would have starved first.
Now or never he must use the strong, if not melodious
voice which nature had bestowed upon him. He knew
several French and English songs, and resolved to try them
upon the Japanese, who must be lovers of music, since
they were for ever pounding on their cymbals, tam-tams,
and tambourines, and could not but appreciate European
talent.
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. Passepartout therefore
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