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Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days

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Chapter 1 IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PASSEPARTOUT ACCEPT EACH OTHER,

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MASTER, THE

Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical personage, about whom little was known, except that he was a polished man of the wor

incoln's Inn, or Gray's Inn; nor had his voice ever resounded in the Court of Chancery, or in the Exchequer, or the Queen's Bench, or the Ecclesiastical Courts. He certainly was not a manufacturer; nor was he a merchant or a gentleman farmer. His name was strange to the scientific and learned societies, and he never was known to take part in t

member of the Refor

dmission to this exclusiv

an open credit. His cheques were regularly paid at s

cious; for, whenever he knew that money was needed for a noble, useful, or benevolent purpose, he supplied it quietly and sometimes anonymously. He was, in short, the least communicative of men. He talked very little, and seemed

with it. He often corrected, with a few clear words, the thousand conjectures advanced by members of the club as to lost and unheard-of travellers, pointing out the true

en him anywhere else. His sole pastimes were reading the papers and playing whist. He often won at this game, which, as a silent one, harmonised with his nature; but his winnings never went into his purse, being reserv

y midnight, only to retire at once to bed. He never used the cosy chambers which the Reform provides for its favoured members. He passed ten hours out of the twenty-four in Saville Row, either in sleeping or making his toilet. When he chose to take a walk it was with a regular step in the entrance hall with its mosaic flooring, or in the circular gallery with its dome supported by twenty red porphyry Ionic columns, and illumined by blue painted windows. When he breakfasted or dined all

entric, it must be confessed that the

Phileas Fogg required him to be almost superhumanly prompt and regular. On this very 2nd of October he had dismissed James Forster, because that luckless youth had brou

his body straight, his head erect; he was steadily watching a complicated clock which indicated the hours, the minutes, the seconds, the days,

cosy apartment where Phileas Fogg was seated, an

servant,"

f thirty adva

lieve," asked Phileas Fogg

when I used to vault like Leotard, and dance on a rope like Blondin. Then I got to be a professor of gymnastics, so as to make better use of my talents; and then I was a sergeant fireman at Paris, and assisted at many a big fire. But I quitted France five years ago, and, wishing to taste the sweets of d

. "You are well recommended to me; I hear a

mons

hat time

ned Passepartout, drawing an enormous si

o slow," sa

onsieur, it i

on the error. Now from this moment, twenty-nine minutes after e

left hand, put it on his head with an aut

out. He heard it shut again; it was his predecessor, James Forster, depa

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1 Chapter 1 IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PASSEPARTOUT ACCEPT EACH OTHER,2 Chapter 2 IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT IS CONVINCED THAT HE HAS AT LAST FOUND HIS IDEAL3 Chapter 3 IN WHICH A CONVERSATION TAKES PLACE WHICH SEEMS LIKELY TO COST PHILEAS FOGG DEAR4 Chapter 4 IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG ASTOUNDS PASSEPARTOUT, HIS SERVANT5 Chapter 5 IN WHICH A NEW SPECIES OF FUNDS, UNKNOWN TO THE MONEYED MEN, APPEARS ON 'CHANGE6 Chapter 6 IN WHICH FIX, THE DETECTIVE, BETRAYS A VERY NATURAL IMPATIENCE7 Chapter 7 WHICH ONCE MORE DEMONSTRATES THE USELESSNESS OF PASSPORTS AS AIDS TO DETECTIVES8 Chapter 8 IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT TALKS RATHER MORE, PERHAPS, THAN IS PRUDENT9 Chapter 9 IN WHICH THE RED SEA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN PROVE PROPITIOUS10 Chapter 10 IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT IS ONLY TOO GLAD TO GET OFF WITH THE LOSS OF HIS SHOES11 Chapter 11 IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG SECURES A CURIOUS MEANS OF CONVEYANCE AT A FABULOUS PRICE12 Chapter 12 IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND HIS COMPANIONS VENTURE13 Chapter 13 IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT RECEIVES A NEW PROOF THAT FORTUNE FAVORS THE BRAVE14 Chapter 14 IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG DESCENDS THE WHOLE LENGTH OF THE BEAUTIFUL VALLEY15 Chapter 15 IN WHICH THE BAG OF BANKNOTES DISGORGES SOME THOUSANDS OF POUNDS MORE16 Chapter 16 IN WHICH FIX DOES NOT SEEM TO UNDERSTAND IN THE LEAST WHAT IS SAID TO HIM17 Chapter 17 SHOWING WHAT HAPPENED ON THE VOYAGE FROM SINGAPORE TO HONG KONG18 Chapter 18 IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG, PASSEPARTOUT, AND FIX GO EACH ABOUT HIS BUSINESS19 Chapter 19 IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT TAKES A TOO GREAT INTEREST IN HIS MASTER,20 Chapter 20 IN WHICH FIX COMES FACE TO FACE WITH PHILEAS FOGG21 Chapter 21 IN WHICH THE MASTER OF THE TANKADERE RUNS GREAT RISK22 Chapter 22 IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT FINDS OUT THAT, EVEN AT THE ANTIPODES,23 Chapter 23 IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT'S NOSE BECOMES OUTRAGEOUSLY LONG24 Chapter 24 DURING WHICH MR. FOGG AND PARTY CROSS THE PACIFIC OCEAN25 Chapter 25 IN WHICH A SLIGHT GLIMPSE IS HAD OF SAN FRANCISCO26 Chapter 26 IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PARTY TRAVEL BY THE PACIFIC RAILROAD27 Chapter 27 IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT UNDERGOES, AT A SPEED OF TWENTY MILES AN HOUR,28 Chapter 28 IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT DOES NOT SUCCEED IN MAKING ANYBODY LISTEN TO REASON29 Chapter 29 IN WHICH CERTAIN INCIDENTS ARE NARRATED WHICH30 Chapter 30 IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG SIMPLY DOES HIS DUTY31 Chapter 31 IN WHICH FIX, THE DETECTIVE, CONSIDERABLY FURTHERS THE INTERESTS OF PHILEAS FOGG32 Chapter 32 IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG ENGAGES IN A DIRECT STRUGGLE WITH BAD FORTUNE33 Chapter 33 IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG SHOWS HIMSELF EQUAL TO THE OCCASION34 Chapter 34 IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AT LAST REACHES LONDON35 Chapter 35 IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG DOES NOT HAVE TO REPEAT HIS ORDERS TO PASSEPARTOUT TWICE36 Chapter 36 IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG'S NAME IS ONCE MORE AT A PREMIUM ON 'CHANGE37 Chapter 37 IN WHICH IT IS SHOWN THAT PHILEAS FOGG GAINED NOTHING