Chapter 6 24 July. Whitby.* – Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and lovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent, in which they have rooms. This is a lovely place. The little river, the Esk, runs through a deep valley, which broadens out as it comes near […]
Chapter 5 9 MayMy dearest Lucy, –Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed with work. The life of an assistant schoolmistress is sometimes trying. I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air. I have
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Chapter 4 I awoke in my own bed. If it be that I had not dreamt, the Count must have carried me here. I tried to satisfy myself on the subject, but could not arrive at any unquestionable result. To be sure, there were certain small evidences, such as that my clothes were folded and
Chapter 3 When I found that I was a prisoner a sort of wild feeling came over me. I rushed up and down the stairs, trying every door and peering out of every window I could find; but after a little the conviction of my helplessness overpowered all other things. When I look back after
Chapter 2 5 May. – I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully awake I must have noticed the approach to such a remarkable place. In the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark ways led from it under great round arches it perhaps seemed bigger than
Chapter 1 3 May. Bistritz.1 – Left Munich at 8.35 p.m. on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6.46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth2 seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the
Chapter 37 Yes; Phileas Fogg in person.The reader will remember that at five minutes past eight in the evening – about five and twenty hours after the arrival of the travellers in London – Passepartout had been sent by his master to engage the services of the Reverend Samuel Wilson in a certain marriage ceremony,
Chapter 36 It is time to relate what a change took place in English public opinion when it transpired that the real bank-robber, a certain James Strand, had been arrested, on the 17th day of December, at Edinburgh. Three days before, Phileas Fogg had been a criminal, who was being desperately followed up by the
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Chapter 35 The dwellers in Saville Row would have been surprised, the next day, if they had been told that Phileas Fogg had returned home. His doors and windows were still closed; no appearance of change was visible.After leaving the station, Mr. Fogg gave Passepartout instructions to purchase some provisions, and quietly went to his
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Chapter 34 Phileas Fogg was in prison. He had been shut up in the Custom House, and he was to he transferred to London the next day.Passepartout, when he saw his master arrested, would have fallen upon Fix, had he not been held back by some policemen. Aouda was thunderstruck at the suddenness of an
Chapter 33 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
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Chapter 32 The China, in leaving, seemed to have carried off Phileas Fogg’s last hope. None of the other steamers were able to serve his projects. The Pereire, of the French Transatlantic Company, whose admirable steamers are equal to any in speed and comfort, did not leave until the 14th; the Hamburg boats did not
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Chapter 31 Phileas Fogg found himself twenty hours behind time. Passepartout, the involuntary cause of this delay, was desperate. He had ruined his master!At this moment the detective approached Mr. Fogg, and, looking him intently in the face, said:“Seriously, sir, are you in great haste?”“Quite seriously.”“I have a purpose in asking,” resumed Fix. “Is it
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Chapter 30 Three passengers – including Passepartout – had disappeared. Had they been killed in the struggle? Were they taken prisoners by the Sioux? It was impossible to tell.There were many wounded, but none mortally. Colonel Proctor was one of the most seriously hurt; he had fought bravely, and a ball had entered his groin.
Chapter 29 The train pursued its course, that evening without interruption, passing Fort Saunders, crossing Cheyenne Pass, and reaching Evans Pass. The road here attained the highest elevation of the journey, eight thousand and ninety-one feet above the level of the sea. The travellers had now only to descend to the Atlantic by limitless plains,