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A Floating City. the Blockade Runners. Round the World in Eighty Days. Dr. Ox's Experiment.cJules Verne
A Floating City. the Blockade Runners. Round the World in Eighty Days. Dr. Ox's Experiment
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Author: Jules Verne
Number of Pages: 140 pages
Published Date: 26 Jun 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Format: PDF
ISBN: 9781236474056
File size: 23 Mb
File Name: A.Floating.City..the.Blockade.Runners..Round.the.World.in.Eighty.Days..Dr..Ox's.Experiment.pdf
Download Link: A Floating City. the Blockade Runners. Round the World in Eighty Days. Dr. Ox's Experiment
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...his elephant he flatly refused. Fogg persisted and offered an excessive price for the animal, ten pounds per hour. Refused. Twenty pounds. Still refused. Forty pounds. Refused again. Passepartout jumped at every advance in price. But the Indian would not be tempted. The sum was a handsome one, however. Admitting the elephant to be employed fifteen hours to reach Allahabad, it was six hundred pounds earned for his owner. Phileas Fogg, without being at all excited, proposed then to the Indian to buy his animal, and offered him at first one thousand pounds. The Indian would not sell! Perhaps the rogue scented a large transaction. Sir Francis Cromarty took Mr. Fogg aside and begged him to reflect before going further. Phileas Fogg replied to his companion that he was not in the habit of acting without reflection, that a bet of twenty thousand pounds was at stake, that this elephant was necessary to him, and that, should he pay twenty times his value, he would have this elephant. Mr. Fogg went again for the Indian, whose small eyes, lit up with greed, showed that with him it was only a question of price. Phileas Fogg offered successively twelve hundred, fifteen hundred, eighteen hundred, and finally two thousand pounds. Passepartout, so rosy oridnarily, was pale with emotion. At two thousand pounds the Indian gave up. "By my slippers," cried Passepartout, "here is a magnificent price for elephant meat!" The business concluded, all that was necessary was to find a guide. That was easier. A young Parsee, with an intelligent face, offered his services. Mr. Fogg accepted him, and offered him a large reward to sharpen his wits. The elephant was brought out and equipped without delay. The Parsee understood perfectly the business of...

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