Aroud the World in Eighty Days
It is London in 1872.
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And this is Mr Phileas Fogg's house.
Mr Pileas Fogg is an English gentleman. He lives in London
He hasn't got a wife or children. but he has got a French servant Passepartout
Fogg goes to his clud everyday.
He eats at his clud at 12 o'clock In the afternoon he reads there. In the evening he eats there again. Then he talks with his friends. And at midnight he goes home
Passepartout is happy. He wants a quiet job.
But one evening. Fogg sees something interesting in The Times.
At the clud Fogg's friends talk. That gentleman thief can't go far. Says Ralph. With trains and ships, today's detectives move fast. But thieves can move fast too, Flanagan says.
Today you can go round the world in eighty days, says Fogg.
I'm leaving tonight, answers Fogg. Perhaps Ican't do it Stuart. But then I pay you 20.000.
Do it, and I pay you 20.000. says Stuart
The train for France leaves before nine in the evening. Fogg must be back in London by 21st December
Fogg gives 20.000 in a bag to his servant. We're leaving for France. he says. Passepartout isn't very happy.
They go to Prance. Then they take a train to Italy, and a ship to Port Said in Egypt.
When their ship arrives in Suez, an English detective Mr Fix-is waiting. He's looking for the gentleman thief.
Fogg visits the Passport office
Mr Fix sees him there. It's the gentleman thief he thinks. I must tell London. 9 October
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Fix looks at Passepartout.
Where are you goning? he asks. Around the world, says Passepartout. But righr now I need some new shirts.
Fix takes him to a shop and leaves him there.
Then he sends a telegram to London
Later he gets on the ship for Bombay with Fogg and Passepartout.
It is 20th October. They all arrive in Bombay tow days early. At 4.30 in the afternoon, Fogg and Passepartout leave the ship. They want to get a train across India to Calcutta. It leaves at 8 o'clock
First Fogg goes to the passport office. Then he eats at the station.
Passepartout visits the temple at Malebar Hill but he doesn't take off his shoes.
The priests get angry. They take his shoes and Passepartout runs away.
Fogg and Passepartout get on the train, but Fix stays in Bombay. He is waiting for a telegram from London
After there days the train stops. The railway from Kholby to Allahabad isn't ready.
Some men are building the railway. But there are 80 kilometres without a railway between Kilomlby and Allahabad.
In Kholby, Passepartout gets some new shoes. He also finds an elephant to take them to Allahabad.
They stop near a temple in the village of Pillaji. The old Indian prince is dead. His young wife, the princess, must die with him in a big fire.
We must help that woman!' says Fogg.
The priests start the fire. Through the smoke Fogg sees something beautiful. The prince stands up and takes the princess out of the fire.
The prince and the princess come nearer. Fogg sees that the man is not the prince. It is Passepartout in the prince's clothes. Quicky! Let's go!' says Passepartout to Fogg, quietly.
Suddenly the priests see the prince's body on the fire. They see that the man in the prince's clothes is not the prince, and they become angry.
Fogg. Passepartout and rhe princess leave very quickly on the elephant.
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At last they arrive in Allahabad.
Fogg buys some European clothes for the princess. ‘What a beautiful woman!' he thinks.
On the train going to Calcutta, she speaks for the first time. ‘My name's Mrs Aouda. Thank you for helping me! But I don't know what to do now. I can never go home!' 24th October
‘We can take you to Hong Kong, ’Fogg says. ‘‘Thank you, ’says Mrs Aouda. ‘I have a cousin there. ’
At Calcutta station a policeman stops them. He takes them to see a judge. Mrs Aouda goes too. 25th October.
Fix is in Calcutta. (Detectives must move fast to find gentleman thieves.) He's waiting in court' but Fogg and his friends don't see him.
‘Why are we here?’ ‘For breaking the rules in a temple, ’ says the judge.
‘In Pillaji?’ asks Fogg. ‘No! In Bombay!’ says the judge. And he puts Passepartout's shoes on the table.
You must go to prison fot this, ’ says the judge. But Fogg gives tow thousand pounds to the court and they're free again.
They get onto the ship for Hong Kong. Fix follows them, but Passepartout sees him. Perhaps he's a detective, ’ he thinks. Perhaps he's working for Mr Stuart from the Gentleman's Club in London. ’
In Hong Kong, Mrs Aouda learns that her cousin now lives in Holland. ‘Come with us to Europe, ’ Fogg says. 6th Novamber
Passepartout wants to but three tickets on the Carnatic. It leaves for Yokohama, in Japan, the next morning. But at the ticket office he learns that it's leaving early – that evening.
Passepartout meets Fix near the ticket office ‘Come for a drink, ’ says Fix.
Fix tells Passepartout, ‘I think your Mr Fogg is a gentleman rhief and I want to arrest him. ’ Passepartout doesn't want to help Fix, but the detective buys drink after drink.
Passepartout goes to sleep on the table. ‘Now he can't tell Fogg about the Carnatic, ’ thinks Fix. ‘It leaves tonight – but without Fogg!’
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