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Around the World in 80 Days
Chapter XXVII
IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT
UNDERGOES, AT A SPEED OF
TWENTY MILES AN HOUR, A
COURSE OF MORMON
HISTORY
During the night of the 5th of December, the train ran
south-easterly for about fifty miles; then rose an equal
distance in a north-easterly direction, towards the Great
Salt Lake.
Passepartout, about nine o’clock, went out upon the
platform to take the air. The weather was cold, the
heavens grey, but it was not snowing. 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.
This personage, who had taken the train at Elko, was
tall and dark, with black moustache, black stockings, a
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