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Fogg,' pursued Sir Francis, 'you run the risk of having some difficulty about this worthy fellow's adventure at the pagoda.' Passepartout, his feet comfortably wrapped in his travelling–blanket, was sound asleep and did not dream that anybody was talking about him. 'I have constantly foreseen the likelihood of certain obstacles.' 'Such a delay would not have deranged my plans in the least,' said Mr. 'Because the railway stopped at the base of these mountains, which the passengers were obliged to cross in palanquins or on ponies to Kandallah, on the other side.' Fogg, you would have met with a delay at this point which would probably have lost you your wager.' Phileas Fogg and Sir Francis Cromarty exchanged a few words from time to time, and now Sir Francis, reviving the conversation, observed, 'Some years ago, Mr. At Callyan they reached the junction of the branch line which descends towards south–eastern India by Kandallah and Pounah and, passing Pauwell, they entered the defiles of the mountains, with their basalt bases, and their summits crowned with thick and verdant forests. In the way this strange gentleman was going on, he would leave the world without having done any good to himself or anybody else.Īn hour after leaving Bombay the train had passed the viaducts and the Island of Salcette, and had got into the open country. Phileas Fogg had not concealed from Sir Francis his design of going round the world, nor the circumstances under which he set out and the general only saw in the wager a useless eccentricity and a lack of sound common sense.

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The brigadier–general was free to mentally confess that, of all the eccentric persons he had ever met, none was comparable to this product of the exact sciences.

Sir Francis Cromarty had observed the oddity of his travelling companion-although the only opportunity he had for studying him had been while he was dealing the cards, and between two rubbers-and questioned himself whether a human heart really beat beneath this cold exterior, and whether Phileas Fogg had any sense of the beauties of nature. He was at this moment calculating in his mind the number of hours spent since his departure from London, and, had it been in his nature to make a useless demonstration, would have rubbed his hands for satisfaction.

But Phileas Fogg, who was not travelling, but only describing a circumference, took no pains to inquire into these subjects he was a solid body, traversing an orbit around the terrestrial globe, according to the laws of rational mechanics. He made India his home, only paying brief visits to England at rare intervals and was almost as familiar as a native with the customs, history, and character of India and its people. Sir Francis was a tall, fair man of fifty, who had greatly distinguished himself in the last Sepoy revolt. Fogg's whist partners on the Mongolia, now on his way to join his corps at Benares. This was Sir Francis Cromarty, one of Mr. Passepartout rode in the same carriage with his master, and a third passenger occupied a seat opposite to them. Among the passengers were a number of officers, Government officials, and opium and indigo merchants, whose business called them to the eastern coast.

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