Part 18 (1/2)
”Is your honour looking for a boat?”
”Have you a boat ready to sail?”
”Yes, your honour; a pilot-boat--No 43--the best in the harbour”
”Does she go fast?”
”Between eight and nine knots the hour Will you look at her?”
”Yes”
”Your honour will be satisfied with her Is it for a sea excursion?”
”No; for a voyage”
”A voyage?”
”Yes, will you agree to take , opened his eyes wide, and said, ”Is your honour joking?”
”No I have et to Yokohama by the 14th at the latest, to take the boat for San Francisco”
”I am sorry,” said the sailor; ”but it is impossible”
”I offer you a hundred pounds per day, and an additional reward of two hundred pounds if I reach Yokohama in time”
”Are you in earnest?”
”Very azed out to sea, evidently struggling between the anxiety to gain a large su so far Fix was inturned to Aouda and asked her, ”You would not be afraid, would you, ,” was her answer
The pilot now returned, shuffling his hat in his hands
”Well, pilot?” said Mr Fogg
”Well, your honour,” replied he, ”I could not risk myself,a voyage at this time of year Besides, we could not reach Yokohama in ti”
”Only sixteen hundred,” said Mr Fogg
”It's the sa”
Fix breathed ed another way”
Fix ceased to breathe at all
”How?” asked Mr Fogg