Part 34 (2/2)
Passepartout could hold in no longer
”My !” he cried ”Why do you not curse me? It was , with perfect calmness
”Go!”
Passepartout left the room, and went to find Aouda, to whoe
”Mada! I have no influence over my master; but you, perhaps--”
”What influence could I have?” replied Aouda ”Mr Fogg is influenced by no one Has he ever understood that ? Has he ever read my heart? My friend, heto speak with e for your protection and coland”
”We shall see,” replied Aouda, becohout this day (Sunday) the house in Saville Roas as if uninhabited, and Phileas Fogg, for the first time since he had lived in that house, did not set out for his club when Westminster clock struck half-past eleven
Why should he present hier expected hi had not appeared in the saloon on the evening before (Saturday, the 21st of Deceer It was not even necessary that he should go to his bankers for the twenty thousand pounds; for his antagonists already had his check in their hands, and they had only to fill it out and send it to the Barings to have the a, therefore, had no reason for going out, and so he remained at ho his affairs in order Passepartout continually ascended and descended the stairs The hours were long for hih the keyhole, as if he had a perfect right to do so, and as if he feared that soht happen at any er Fix, like all the world, had been , and had only done his duty in tracking and arresting hiht haunted hi hishimself too wretched to remain alone, he knocked at Aouda's door, went into her roo, in a corner, and looked ruefully at the young woman
Aouda was still pensive
About half-past seven in the evening Mr Fogg sent to know if Aouda would receive him, and in a fewtook a chair, and sat down near the fireplace opposite Aouda No e returned was exactly the Fogg who had gone away There was the same calm, the same i, then, bending his eyes on Aouda, ”Madaland?”
”I, Mr Fogg!” replied Aouda, checking the pulsations of her heart
”Please letyou far away from the country which was so unsafe for you, I was rich, and counted on putting a portion of my fortune at your disposal Then your existence would have been free and happy But now I a,” replied Aouda; ”and I ask you infollowed you, and--who knows?--for having, perhaps, delayed you, and thus contributed to your ruin?”
”Madam, you could not remain in India, and your safety could only be assured by bringing you to such a distance that your persecutors could not take you”
”So, Mr Fogg,” resu ht yourself bound to secure n land?”
”Yes,to place the little I have left at your service”
”But ill becoentle”
”But how do you look upon the fate, sir, which awaits you?”