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I looked at Monsieur Fogg
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>) ... and I could contain myself no longer.
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2) ... but I said nothing
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... and I could contain myself no longer.
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'What is the purpose of our journey, Monsieur?'
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'A wager,' he replied.
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>) 'A wager!'
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2) 'Ah.'
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'A wager!' I returned.
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He nodded.
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1) 'But surely that is foolishness!'
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>) 'A most serious matter then!'
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'A most serious matter then!'
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He nodded again.
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1) 'But can we win?'
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>) 'A modest wager, I trust?'
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3) I asked nothing further of him then.
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'A modest wager, I trust?'
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'Twenty thousand pounds,' he replied, quite flatly.
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After that, we passed the day in silence.
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