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Around the World in 80 Days

with their captors, three of whom the Frenchman had
felled with his fists, when his master and the soldiers
hastened up to their relief.
All were welcomed with joyful cries. Phileas Fogg

distributed the reward he had promised to the soldiers,
while Passepartout, not without reason, muttered to
himself, ‘It must certainly be confessed that I cost my
master dear!’
Fix, without saying a word, looked at Mr. Fogg, and it
would have been difficult to analyse the thoughts which
struggled within him. As for Aouda, she took her
protector’s hand and pressed it in her own, too much
moved to speak.
Meanwhile, Passepartout was looking about for the
train; he thought he should find it there, ready to start for
Omaha, and he hoped that the time lost might be
regained.
‘The train! the train!’ cried he.
‘Gone,’ replied Fix.
‘And when does the next train pass here?’ said Phileas
Fogg.
‘Not till this evening.’
‘Ah!’ returned the impassible gentleman quietly.

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