Page 266 - AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS

Around the World in 80 Days

‘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.

‘Well, it pleases me to have it diamonds,’ replied
Colonel Proctor, in an insolent tone.
He made a movement as if to seize the card which had
just been played, adding, ‘You don’t understand anything
about whist.’
‘Perhaps I do, as well as another,’ said Phileas Fogg,
rising.
‘You have only to try, son of John Bull,’ replied the
colonel.
Aouda turned pale, and her blood ran cold. She seized
Mr. Fogg’s arm and gently pulled him back. Passepartout
was ready to pounce upon the American, who was staring
insolently at his opponent. But Fix got up, and, going to
Colonel Proctor said, ‘You forget that it is I with whom
you have to deal, sir; for it was I whom you not only
insulted, but struck!’
‘Mr. Fix,’ said Mr. Fogg, ‘pardon me, but this affair is
mine, and mine only. The colonel has again insulted me,
by insisting that I should not play a spade, and he shall give
me satisfaction for it.’

265 of 339