Around the World in Eighty Days

rough the Reform Club, and afforded an exciting topic of conversation to its members. From the club it soon got into the papers throughout E

n paper, in this minimum of time, and with the existing means of travelling. The Times, Standard, Morning Post, and Daily News, and twenty other highly respectable newspapers scouted Mr. Fogg's project as madness

y devoured by all classes of readers. At first some rash individuals, principally of the gentler sex, espoused his cause, which became still more popular when the Illustrated London New

n of the Royal Geographical Society, which treated the question from e

when he calculated upon crossing India in three days, and the United States in seven, could he rely beyond misgiving upon accomplishing his task? There were accidents to machinery, the liability of trains to run off the line, collisions, bad weather, the blocking up by snow-were not all these against Phileas Fogg? Would he not find himself, when travelling b

, being copied into all the papers, seriousl

g, who was set down in the betting books as if he were a race-horse. Bonds were issued, and made their appearance on 'Change; "Phileas Fogg bonds" were offered at par or at a premium, and a great business was done in them. But five days after the

n his fortune to be able to make the tour of the world, if it took ten years; and he bet five thousand pounds on Phileas Fogg. When the folly as well as the us

the bets stood a hundred and fifty and two hundred to one; and a week after

fice at nine o'clock one evening, when the follo

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ileas Fogg. Send with out dela

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, was minutely examined, and it betrayed, feature by feature, the description of the robber which had been provided to the police. The mysterious habits of Phileas Fogg were recalled; his solitary ways,