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Fogg, that's perfectly outrageous. You ought to be ashamed of yourself." F. "Well, you know it's so. You have got the worst temper of any woman I ever saw the very worst; now haven't you?" Mrs. F. "No, I haven't, either. I'm just as good-tempered as you are." F. "That's not so. You're as cross as a bear If you were married to a graven image, you'd quarrel with it." Mrs.
The vessel continued to proceed with all steam on; but on the 18th, the engineer, as he had predicted, announced that the coal would give out in the course of the day. "Do not let the fires go down," replied Mr. Fogg. "Keep them up to the last. Let the valves be filled." Towards noon Phileas Fogg, having ascertained their position, called Passepartout, and ordered him to go for Captain Speedy.
Each delay filled him with hope, for it became more and more probable that Fogg would be obliged to remain some days at Hong Kong; and now the heavens themselves became his allies, with the gusts and squalls. It mattered not that they made him seasick he made nothing of this inconvenience; and, while his body was writhing under their effects, his spirit bounded with hopeful joy.
He went gunning eight or ten times afterward that autumn, always with a full supply of ammunition, but he never once saw a rabbit or any other kind of game within gun-shot. But he forgave Mrs. Fogg, and for a while their domestic peace was unruffled.
As for my old friend Captain Vincent, and my new commander, Captain Fogg, they alleged in their defense that they had signed the paper only because they feared if we engaged the enemy, that the other captains would wholly desert and leave the Breda and the Falmouth to their fate; and Mr.
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.
You know that a visa is useless, and that no passport is required?" "I know it, sir," replied Phileas Fogg, "but I wish to prove, by your visa, that I came by Suez." "Very well, sir." The consul proceeded to sign and date the passport, after which he added his official seal. Mr. Fogg paid the customary fee, coldly bowed, and went out, followed by his servant. "Well?" queried the detective.
Worse than that, he is a magazine writer." "I thought you liked his essays and stories." "So I do. But you don't want to associate with everybody you like that way. I am talking about society. You must draw the line somewhere. Oh, I forgot Fogg Dr. LeRoy Fogg, from Pittsburg." And down went the name of Fogg.
The audience, moreover, were not slow in recognizing this fact also. That day has gone by, apparently, when tyros may sally forth from the city and win country audiences with fine dresses, pretty faces, cheek, and inexperience. The theatre-going public knows the trick. The days of such barn-storming are passing away. Mr. Fogg, who was the Armand, did not make a profound impression.
Fogg talked about was not really in good earnest, and whether his fate was not in truth forcing him, despite his love of repose, around the world in eighty days!
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