Passepartout jumped off the box and followed his master, who, after paying the cabman, was about to enter the station, when a poor beggar-woman, with a child in her arms, her naked feet smeared with mud, her head covered with a wretched bonnet, from which hung a tattered feather, and her shoulders shrouded in a ragged shawl, approached, and mournfully asked for alms.
Haar hoofddeksel was een verflenste hoed, waarvan een armzalige veer afhing; eene shawl in flarden bedekte hare gescheurde plunje. Zij wendde zich tot Phileas Fogg en vroeg een aalmoes.