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Around the World in 80 Days

CHAPTER XIII
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She seemed, having shaken off the stupor of intoxication, to be striving to escape from her executioner.

Sir Francis's heart throbbed; and, convulsively seizing Mr.Fogg's hand, found in it an open knife.

Just at this moment the crowd began to move.

The young woman had again fallen into a stupor caused by the fumes of hemp, and passed among the fakirs, who escorted her with their wild, religious cries.
Phileas Fogg and his companions, mingling in the rear ranks of the crowd, followed; and in two minutes they reached the banks of the stream, and stopped fifty paces from the pyre, upon which still lay the rajah's corpse.

In the semi-obscurity they saw the victim, quite senseless, stretched out beside her husband's body.


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