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Around the World in 80 Days

Chapter XXXIII

IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG

SHOWS HIMSELF EQUAL TO

THE OCCASION

An hour after, the Henrietta passed the lighthouse
which marks the entrance of the Hudson, turned the point
of Sandy Hook, and put to sea. During the day she skirted
Long Island, passed Fire Island, and directed her course
rapidly eastward.
At noon the next day, a man mounted the bridge to
ascertain the vessel’s position. It might be thought that this
was Captain Speedy. Not the least in the world. It was
Phileas Fogg, Esquire. As for Captain Speedy, he was shut
up in his cabin under lock and key, and was uttering loud
cries, which signified an anger at once pardonable and
excessive.
What had happened was very simple. Phileas Fogg
wished to go to Liverpool, but the captain would not
carry him there. Then Phileas Fogg had taken passage for
Bordeaux, and, during the thirty hours he had been on

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