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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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act, to Passepartouts great surprise; and thedisturbances, if they existed, would have been moredifficult to calculate than those of Uranus which led to thediscovery of Neptune. It was every day an increasing wonder to Passepartout,who read in Aoudas eyes the depths of her gratitude tohis master. Phileas Fogg, though brave and gallant, mustbe, he thought, quite heartless. As to the sentiment whichthis journey might have awakened in him, there was clearlyno trace of such a thing; while poor Passepartout existedin perpetual reveries. One day he was leaning on the railing of the engine-room, and was observing the engine, when a sudden pitcliof the steamer threw the screw out of the water. Thesteam came hissing out of the valves; and this madePassepartout indignant. 134 AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTV DAYS. The valves are not sufficiently charged ! he exclaimed. We are not going. Oh, these English! If this was anAmerican craft, we should blow up, perhaps, but we shouldat all events go faster!
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TOOK A HAND AT EVEETTHING AND ASTONISHED THE CREW. (Page 137, AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS. 135 CHAPTER XVIII. IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG, PASSEPARTOUT, AND FIX GOEACH ABOUT HIS BUSINESS. The weather was bad during the latter days of the voyage.The wind, obstinately remaining in the north-west, blew agale, and retarded the steamer. The Rangoon rolledheavily, and the passengers became impatient of the long,monstrous waves which the wind raised before their path.A sort of tempest arose on the 3rd of November, the squallknocking the vessel about with fury, and the waves runninghi^^h. The RanG:oon reefed all her sails, and even therigging proved too much, whistling and shaking amid thesquall. The steamer was forced to proceed slowly, andthe captain estimated that she would reach Hong Kongtwenty hours behind time, and more if the storm lasted. Phileas Fogg gazed at the tempestuous sea, which seemedto be struggling especially to delay him, with his habitualtranquillity. He never changed count

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