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I cannot hide,' he thought; and with the manner; habitual to him since childhood, of one who has nothing to be ashamed of, Vronsky got out of his sledge and went to the door.
That izvoshchik's sledge was high and comfortable and never after did Levin drive in one like it, and the horse was a good one too and tried its best to trot fast, but did not move from the place.
"No; on a sledge," replied Fix.
"On a sledge with sails.
There Mr. Fogg examined a curious vehicle, a kind of frame on two long beams, a little raised in front like the runners of a sledge, and upon which there was room for five or six persons.
It was, in short, a sledge rigged like a sloop.
At eight o'clock the sledge was ready to start.
The two great sails were hoisted, and under the pressure of the wind the sledge slid over the hardened snow with a velocity of forty miles an hour.
If the wind held good, the distance might be traversed in five hours; if no accident happened the sledge might reach Omaha by one o'clock.
The sledge sped on as lightly as a boat over the waves.
When the breeze came skimming the earth the sledge seemed to be lifted off the ground by its sails.
Although the speed could not be exactly estimated, the sledge could not be going at less than forty miles an hour.
The prairie, across which the sledge was moving in a straight line, was as flat as a sea.
The sledge, shortening this route, took a chord of the arc described by the railway.
The road, then, was quite clear of obstacles, and Phileas Fogg had but two things to fear--an accident to the sledge, and a change or calm in the wind.
The sledge slid along in the midst of a plaintively intense melody.
He remembered that it was the detective who procured the sledge, the only means of reaching Omaha in time; but, checked by some presentiment, he kept his usual reserve.
While each of the party was absorbed in reflections so different, the sledge flew past over the vast carpet of snow.
Sometimes flocks of wild birds rose, or bands of gaunt, famished, ferocious prairie-wolves ran howling after the sledge.
Had an accident then happened to the sledge, the travellers, attacked by these beasts, would have been in the most terrible danger; but it held on its even course, soon gained on the wolves, and ere long left the howling band at a safe distance behind.
In less than an hour he left the rudder and furled his sails, whilst the sledge, carried forward by the great impetus the wind had given it, went on half a mile further with its sails unspread.
Passepartout and Fix jumped off, stretched their stiffened limbs, and aided Mr. Fogg and the young woman to descend from the sledge.
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