Where are you bound ?" "Like you, to Bombay." "That's capital! Have you made this trip before ?" "Several times.

I am one of the agents of the Peninsular Company." "Then you know India ?" "Why yes," replied Fix, who spoke cautiously.
"A curious place, this India ?" "Oh, very curious.

Mosques, minarets, temples, fakirs, pagodas, tigers, snakes, elephants! I hope you will have ample time to see the sights." "I hope so, Monsieur Fix.

You see, a man of sound sense ought not to spend his life jumping from a steamer upon a railway train, and from a railway train upon a steamer again, pretending to make the tour of the world in eighty days! No; all these gymnastics, you may be sure, will cease at Bombay." "And Mr.Fogg is getting on well ?" asked Fix, in the most natural tone in the world.
"Quite well, and I too.

I eat like a famished ogre; it's the sea air." "But I never see your master on deck." "Never; he hasn't the least curiosity." "Do you know, Mr.Passepartout, that this pretended tour in eighty days may conceal some secret errand--perhaps a diplomatic mission ?" "Faith, Monsieur Fix, I assure you I know nothing about it, nor would I give half a crown to find out." After this meeting, Passepartout and Fix got into the habit of chatting together, the latter making it a point to gain the worthy man's confidence.