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Chapter In Which Fix Does Not Seem To Understand In The Least What Is Said To Him. of Around the World in 80 Days by ... (868 words) |
 | Aouda did not quite know what to make of him, though Passepartout had given her some hints of his master's eccentricity, and made her smile by telling her of the wager which was sending him round the world. |
| Aouda was a relative of this great man, and it was his cousin Jeejeeh, whom she hoped to join at Hong Kong. |
| Aouda fastened her great eyes, `clear as the sacred lakes of the Himalaya', upon him; but the intractable Fogg, as reserved as ever, did not seem at all inclined to throw himself into this lake. |
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