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“那是您的权利。”法官说。 Fix's blood ran cold, but he resumed his composure when he heard the judge announce that the bail required for each prisoner would be one thousand pounds. 费克斯象是脊梁上突然给泼了一盆凉水，但是当他听见法官说出下面一段话，他又安心了。法官“根据福克先生和他仆人的外籍身分”，决定要被告各缴巨额保证金一千英镑（合二万五千金法郎）。这样一来，福克先生要是不愿意服刑，就得缴两千英镑。 "I will pay it at once," said Mr. Fogg, taking a roll of bank-bills from the carpet-bag, which Passepartout had by him, and placing them on the clerk's desk. “我照付。”这位绅士说。他从路路通背着的袋子里拿出了一包钞票放在书记官的桌子上。 "This sum will be restored to you upon your release from prison," said the judge. "Meanwhile, you are liberated on bail." “现在您就算缴保获释了，”法官说，“这笔钱等您什么时候来服刑，期满出狱时就还给您。” "Come!" said Phileas Fogg to his servant. “走！”福克先生对他的仆人说。 
“可是至少他们得把鞋还给我啊！”路路通愤怒地喊着说。 "Ah, these are pretty dear shoes!" he muttered, as they were handed to him. "More than a thousand pounds apiece; besides, they pinch my feet." 书记官把鞋还给了他。“喏，这双鞋价钱可真贵！”他嘟哝着说，“一千多英镑一只！还不说它们使我多么伤脑筋。” Mr. Fogg, offering his arm to Aouda, then departed, followed by the crestfallen Passepartout. Fix still nourished hopes that the robber would not, after all, leave the two thousand pounds behind him, but would decide to serve out his week in jail, and issued forth on Mr. Fogg's traces. That gentleman took a carriage, and the party were soon landed on one of the quays. 福克先生让艾娥达夫人挽着自己的手臂一同走出了法庭，后面跟着垂头丧气的路路通。费克斯还在死心眼地希望着这个大窃犯一定宁愿坐八天禁闭而决不肯丢掉这两千英镑呢，所以他就继续跟踪斐利亚·福克。福克先生叫来一辆马车，立即带着艾娥达夫人和路路通上车走了。费克斯跟在车后面跑，不一会儿，车子就停在加尔各答的一个码头上了。 The Rangoon was moored half a mile off in the harbour, its signal of departure hoisted at the mast-head. Eleven o'clock was striking; Mr. Fogg was an hour in advance of time. Fix saw them leave the carriage and push off in a boat for the steamer, and stamped his feet with disappointment. 仰光号泊在离码头半海里的海湾里，大桅顶上已经升起了开船的信号旗。钟敲了十一点。福克先生早到了一小时。费克斯眼睁睁地看着福克带着艾娥达夫人和仆人下了车，上了一条小驳船，他气得在岸上直跺脚。 "The rascal is off, after all!" he exclaimed. "Two thousand pounds sacrificed! He's as prodigal as a thief! I'll follow him to the end of the world if necessary; but, at the rate he is going on, the stolen money will soon be exhausted." “这个流氓，”费克斯喊着说，“他真的走了！两千英镑就这样扔了！真是象强盗一样挥金如土！哼！你就是跑到天边，我也得盯着你！可是，照他这样搞下去，偷来的钱很快就会给他全部花光了！” 
警察厅密探费克斯考虑到赃款的问题那是很自然的，实际上福克先生自从离开伦敦以后，旅费、奖金、买象、保释金和罚款，已经挥霍了五千多英镑了（合十二万五千金法郎），这样按追回赃款总数比例发给密探的奖金也就越弄越少了。 The Rangoon--one of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's boats plying in the Chinese and Japanese seas--was a screw steamer, built of iron, weighing about seventeen hundred and seventy tons, and with engines of four hundred horse-power. She was as fast, but not as well fitted up, as the Mongolia, and Aouda was not as comfortably provided for on board of her as Phileas Fogg could have wished. However, the trip from Calcutta to Hong Kong only comprised some three thousand five hundred miles, occupying from ten to twelve days, and the young woman was not difficult to please. 仰光号是印度半岛和远东公司的一条邮船，经常在中国和日本的沿海航行。这是一艘有螺旋推进器的铁壳船。总重一千七百七十吨，正常运转是四百匹马力。它的航行速度和蒙古号差不多，但是设备却不如蒙古号好。艾娥达夫人所住的房舱也完全不象福克先生所希望的那样舒服。好在这条船航线一共才只三千五百多海里，走完全程只需十一二天，何况艾娥达夫人也不是一个爱挑剔难伺候的人。 During the first days of the journey Aouda became better acquainted with her protector, and constantly gave evidence of her deep gratitude for what he had done. The phlegmatic gentleman listened to her, apparently at least, with coldness, neither his voice nor his manner betraying the slightest emotion; but he seemed to be always on the watch that nothing should be wanting to Aouda's comfort. He visited her regularly each day at certain hours, not so much to talk himself, as to sit and hear her talk. He treated her with the strictest politeness, but with the precision of an automaton, the movements of which had been arranged for this purpose. 开船后的头几天，艾娥达夫人对于福克先生有了更进一步的了解。她一再对福克先生表示衷心感谢。这位沉默寡言的绅士只听她讲，至少在外表上看来他完全是冷冰冰的，不论在语调和动作上都没有表现出一点激情。福克先生什么都为艾娥达夫人准备得妥妥当当。在一定的时间，他照例到艾娥达夫人的房舱去看望一番，即使他不是去跟她谈天，至少他是在听她讲话。他对艾娥达夫人严格地遵守着一种礼节上的责任，但是在履行这些责任时他总是带着作为一个死板板的绅士所固有的那种关心和令人摸不透的心情，他的一切举止都是用来表现这种心情的。 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. After all, she owed Phileas Fogg her life, and she always regarded him through the exalting medium of her gratitude. 艾娥达夫人对这一切简直不知道该怎样去想，但路路通给她谈了一些关于他主人的古怪脾气。他告诉她福克先生为了打什么“赌”才作这次环球旅行的。艾娥达夫人笑了，但无论如何，她是感激从死里救她出来的福克先生的。她根据自己的观察，认为她的救命恩人这次的赌博是不会输的。 Aouda confirmed the Parsee guide's narrative of her touching history. She did, indeed, belong to the highest of the native races of India. Many of the Parsee merchants have made great fortunes there by dealing in cotton; and one of them, Sir Jametsee Jeejeebhoy, was made a baronet by the English government. Aouda was a relative of this great man, and it was his cousin, Jeejeeh, whom she hoped to join at Hong Kong. Whether she would find a protector in him she could not tell; but Mr. Fogg essayed to calm her anxieties, and to assure her that everything would be mathematically--he used the very word--arranged. Aouda fastened her great eyes, "clear as thee 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. 艾娥达夫人证实了帕西向导所叙述的关于她自己的那一段可怕的经历。她也是帕西人，帕西人在印度各族中占着最重要的地位。很多帕西商人在印度作棉花生意发了大财。其中有一位詹姆斯·杰吉荷依爵士曾被英国政府授予贵族称号。这位杰吉荷依富翁跟艾娥达夫人是亲戚，现在住在孟买。艾娥达夫人要到香港去找的那位尊贵的杰吉先生，正是那位杰吉荷依爵士的堂兄弟。但是，她是不是能在杰吉先生那里找到安身之处和得到帮助呢？这一点艾娥达夫人毫无把握。对这件事，福克先生的答复很简单，教她一点也不用发愁，一切都将会按部就班地得到解决，这是他的一句老话。这位年轻的女人是不是明白“按部就班地”这个副词的意思，我们不知道。她那两只象喜玛拉雅山圣湖湖水一样清澈的大眼睛，在凝视着福克先生的眼睛。可是这位永远那样规规矩矩冷冷冰冰的绅士，半点也不象是会掉进这湖里去的人。 
仰光号的第一段路程走得非常顺利。风向也利于航行，在这个被海员称为“双臂环抱的孟加拉”辽阔的海湾里，邮船航行一帆风顺。不久，仰光号上的旅客已经看见了安达曼群岛的主岛大安达曼岛。岛上美丽的鞍峰山高达两千四百英尺，老远地就为航海家们指出了前进的方向。仰光号从大安达曼岛的海岸近旁驰过。岛上的帕卜阿斯人一个也没出现。他们被人认为是人类中最不开化的民族，但是说他们吃人肉，那是瞎扯的。 The panorama of the islands, as they steamed by them, was superb. Vast forests of palms, arecs, bamboo, teakwood, of the gigantic mimosa, and tree-like ferns covered the foreground, while behind, the graceful outlines of the mountains were traced against the sky; and along the coasts swarmed by thousands the precious swallows whose nests furnish a luxurious dish to the tables of the Celestial Empire. The varied landscape afforded by the Andaman Islands was soon passed, however, and the Rangoon rapidly approached the Straits of Malacca, which gave access to the China seas. 安达曼群岛的风景非常优美。那儿有一望无际的森林遍布全岛的近海一面，其中最多的是：棕树、槟榔树、肉豆蔻、竹子、柏木、大含羞草和桫椤树。森林的后面，是一群俊秀山峦的侧影。海滩上飞翔着成群珍贵的海燕。这种海燕的窝在中国是一种很讲究的名菜--燕窝。所有安达曼群岛的美丽的景物，都飞快地从船旁掠过。仰光号迅速地开向马六甲海峡，这条海峡是通向中国领海的门户。 What was detective Fix, so unluckily drawn on from country to country, doing all this while? He had managed to embark on the Rangoon at Calcutta without being seen by Passepartout, after leaving orders that, if the warrant should arrive, it should be forwarded to him at Hong Kong; and he hoped to conceal his presence to the end of the voyage. It would have been difficult to explain why he was on board without awakening Passepartout's suspicions, who thought him still at Bombay. But necessity impelled him, nevertheless, to renew his acquaintance with the worthy servant, as will be seen. 在这一段航程中，那个被拖着环绕地球的倒霉蛋费克斯在干什么呢？在离开加尔各答时，他先交代好：如果伦敦的拘票一到，马上转寄香港。然后他背着路路通偷偷地上了仰光号。他预备好好地躲藏起来，一直等船到香港时再出来。实际上他也很难向路路通解释清楚他为什么也在这条船上而不会引起对方的怀疑，因为，路路通还以为他现在是在孟买呢。但是为了适应环境改变的需要，他又和这个忠厚的小伙子见面了。他们怎么见面的呢？我们下面来谈。 All the detective's hopes and wishes were now centred on Hong Kong; for the steamer's stay at Singapore would be too brief to enable him to take any steps there. The arrest must be made at Hong Kong, or the robber would probably escape him for ever. 侦探费克斯的全部希望和幻想现在只有集中在地球的这一点上，也就是香港。因为邮船在新加坡停留的时间很短，不能在那里解决问题。所以逮捕盗窃犯的活动必须在香港完成，不然，就只有任凭大盗从此逍遥法外了。 Hong Kong was the last English ground on which he would set foot; beyond, China, Japan, America offered to Fogg an almost certain refuge. If the warrant should at last make its appearance at Hong Kong, Fix could arrest him and give him into the hands of the local police, and there would be no further trouble. But beyond Hong Kong, a simple warrant would be of no avail; an extradition warrant would be necessary, and that would result in delays and obstacles, of which the rascal would take advantage to elude justice. 实际上，香港还是一块英国割据的地盆，但是，它也是福克旅途中最后的一块英国地盘了。一过香港，就是中国、日本、美洲，那些地方对福克说来，是更妥当的避难所。如果费克斯到了香港，就能拿到了那跟在他后面寄来的拘票，那么，他就可以把福克抓起来交给当地的警察局。这一切将不费吹灰之力。但是，过了香港，光有一张拘票，就不顶事了，还必须办理引渡手续。办引渡手续就免不了延迟、拖拉和遇到各种阻碍。到那时，这个流氓十拿九稳又会逃之夭夭。所以说，若在香港逮不住他，以后即使不是完全不可能，至少也是很难再找到逮住他的好机会了。
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