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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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e complainants come in. A door was swung open by order of the judge, and threeIndian priests entered. Thats it, muttered Passepartout; these are therogues who were going to burn our young lady. The priests took their places in front of the judge, andthe clerk proceeded to read In a loud voice a complaint ofsacrilege against Phileas Fogg and his servant, who wereaccused of having violated a place held consecrated by theBrahmin relio;ion. You hear the charge ? asked the judge. Yes, sir, replied Mr. Fogg, consulting his watch, andI admit it. You admit it.? I admit it, and I wish to hear these priests admit, intheir turn, what they were going to do at the pagoda ofPillaji. The priests looked at each other; they did not seem tounderstand what was said. Yes, cried Passepartout, warmly; at the pagoda ofPillaji, where they were on the point of burning theirvictim. The judge stared with astonishment, and the priests werestupefied. What victim.? said Judge Obadlah. Burn whom.?In Bombay itself.?
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:mt shoes ! ceied passepartout. \Page\U. AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS. II3 Bombay? cried Passepartout. Certainly. We are not talking of the pagoda of Pillaji,but of the pagoda of Malebar Hill, at Bombay. And as a proof, added the clerk, here arc the dese-crators very shoes, which he left behind him. Whereupon he placed a pair of shoes on his desk. My shoes ! cried Passepartout, in his surprise permit-ting this imprudent exclamation to escape him. The confusion of master and man, who had quite for-gotten the affair at Bombay, for wdiich they were nowdetained at Calcutta, may be imagined. Fix, the detective, had foreseen the advantage whichPassepartouts escapade gave him, and, delaying his de-parture for twelve hours, had consulted the priests ofMalebar Hill. Knowing that the English authorities dealtvery severely with this kind of misdemeanour, he promisedthem a goodly sum in damages, and sent them forwardto Calcutta by the next train. Owing to the delay causedby the rescue of the y

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