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Title: Around the world in eighty days
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: Boston : J. R. Osgood & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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f, Good! another Japanese embassy departing forEurope ! 184 AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS. CHAPTER XXIII. IN \VHICH passepartouts NOSE BECOMES OUT-RAGEOUSLY LONG. The next morning poor, jaded, famished Passepartout saidto himself that he must get something to eat at all hazards,and the sooner he did so the better. He might, indeed, sellhis watch ; but he would have starved first. Now or neverhe must use the strong, if not melodious voice which naturehad bestowed upon him. He knew several French andEnglish songs, and resolved to try them upon the Japanese,who must be lovers of music, since they were for everpounding 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 aconcert, and the audience, prematurely aroused from theirslumbers, might not, possibly, pay their entertainer withcoin bearing the Mikados features. Passepartout thereforedecided to wait several hours ; and, as he was sauntering
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PASSEPAETOUT WENT OUT MUFFLED TIP IN AN OLD JAPANESE liOBE (Page 185. AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS. 185 along, it occurred to him that he would seem rather toowell dressed for a wandering artist. The idea struck himto change his garments for clothes more in harmony withhis project; by which he might also get a little money tosatisfy the immediate cravings of hunger. The resolutiontaken, it remained to carry it out. It was only after a long search that Passepartout dis-covered a native dealer in old clothes, to whom he appliedfor an exchange. The man liked the European costume,and ere long Passepartout issued from his shop accoutredin an old Japanese coat, and a sort of one-sided turban,faded with long use. A few small pieces of silver, more-over, jingled in his pocket. Good ! thought he. I will Imagine I am at theCarnival! His first care, after being thus Japanesed, was toenter a tea-house of modest appearance, and, upon half abird and a little rice, to breakfast like a man for who

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