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Around the World in Eighty Days , Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne Illustrations by Jame's Prunier Viking CONTENTS 1 In Which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout Accept Each Other, the One 7 as Master, the Other as Man. 2 In Which Passepartout Is Convinced That He Has at Last Found 13 His Ideal. 3 In Which a Conversation Takes Place Which Seems Likely to Cost 17 Phileas Fogg Dear. 4 In Which Phileas Fogg Astounds Passepartout, His Servant. 27 5 In Which a New Species of Funds, Unknown to the Moneyed 33 Men, Appears on 'Change. 6 In Which Fix, the Detective, Betrays a Very Natural Impatience. 38 7 Which Once More Demonstrates the Uselessness of Passports 45 as Aids to Detectives. 8 In Which Passepartout Talks Rather More, Perhaps, Than Is 48 Prudent. J 9 In Which the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean Prove Propitious to 54 the Designs of Phileas Fogg. 10 In Which Passepartout Is Only Too Glad to Get Off with the Loss 63 of His Shoes. 11 In Which Phileas Fogg Secures a Curious Means of Conveyance 71 at a Fabulous Price. 12 In Which Phileas Fogg and His Companions Venture Across the 84 Indian Forests, and What Ensued. 13 In Which Passepartout Receives a New Proof That Fortune 94 Favors the Brave. 14 In Which Phileas Fogg Descends the Whole Length of the Beautiful 103 Valley of the Ganges Without Ever Thinking of Seeing It. 15 In Which the Bag of Bank-Notes Disgorges Some Thousands of 112 Pounds More. 16 In Which Fix Does Not Seem to Understand in the Least What 121 Is Said to Him. 17 Showing What Happened on the Voyage from Singapore to Hong 128 Kong. 18 In Which Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and Fix Go Each About His 138 Business. 19 In Which Passepartout Takes a Too Great Interest in His Master, and 145 What Comes of It. 20 In Which Fix Comes Face to Face with Phileas Fogg. 155 21 In Which the Master of the Tankadere Runs Great Risk of Losing a 162 Reward of Two Hundred Pounds. 22 In Which Passepartout Finds Out That, Even at the Antipodes, It Is 174 Convenient to Have Some Money in One's Pocket. 23 In Which Passepartout's Nose Becomes Outrageously Long. 183 24 During Which Mr. Fogg and Party Cross the Pacific Ocean. 191 25 In Which a Slight Glimpse Is Had of San Francisco. 198 26 In Which Phileas Fogg and Party Travel by the Pacific Railroad. 208 27 In Which Passepartout Undergoes, at a Speed of Twenty Miles an 215 Hour, a Course of Mormon History. 28 In Which Passepartout Does Not Succeed in Making Anybody 222 Listen to Reason. 29 In Which Certain Incidents Are Narrated Which Are Only to Be 232 Met with on American Railroads. 30 In Which Phileas Fogg Simply Does His Duty. 242 31 In Which Fix the Detective Considerably Furthers the Interests of 251 Phileas Fogg. 32 In Which Phileas Fogg Engages in a Direct Struggle with Bad 259 Fortune. 33 In Which Phileas Fogg Shows Himself Equal to the Occasion. 265 34 In Which Phileas Fogg at Last Reaches London. 276 35 In Which Phileas Fogg Does Not Have to Repeat His' Orders to 280 Passepartout Twice. 36 In Which Phileas Fogg's Name Is Once More at a Premium on 286 'Change. 37 In Which It Is Shown That Phileas Fogg Gained Nothing by His 292 Tour Around the World, Unless It Were Happiness. •• When he breakfasted or dined all the resources of the club-its kitchens and pantries, its buttery and dairy-aided to crowd his table with their most succulent stores." 1 IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PASSEPARTOUT ACCEPT EACH OTHER, THE ONE AS MASTER, THE OTHER AS MAN. Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No.7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. Lord Byron, depicted here at age 25 by James He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Holmes (1777-1860), wrote poems of Club though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention; an disillusionment and rebellion. He came to enigmatical personage, about whom little was known, except symbolize the Romantic hero after his death in that he was a polished man of the world. People said that he 1824 of a fever caught resembled Byron-at least that his head was Byronic; but he while fighting against the Turks for Greek was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live on a thousand independence. years without growing old. 7 Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner. He was never seen on 'Change, nor at the Bank, nor in the counting-rooms of the "City"; no ships ever came into London docks of which he was the owner; he had no public employment; he had never been entered at any of the Inns of Court, either at the Temple, or Lincoln'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. Jules Verne (1828-1905) His name was strange to the scientific and learned societies, as photographed by Nadar (1820-1910), the and he never was known to take part in the sage deliberations French artist, writer, and celebrated photographer, of the Royal Institution or the London Institution, the who took the first aerial photographs from a Artisan's Association or the Institution of Arts and Sciences. balloon. Although Verne wrote mainly for young He belonged, in fact, to none of the numerous societies which people, his novels translated into 25 swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of the languages-were just as popular with adults. As a Entomologists, founded mainly for the purpose of abolishing pioneer of science fiction, pernicious insects. he anticipated many technological devel Phileas Fogg was a member of the Reform, and that was all. opments with startling accuracy. The way in which he got admission to this exclusive club was si~ple enough. He was recommended by the Barings, with whom he had an open credit. His cheques were regularly paid at sight from his account current, which was always flush. Was Phileas Fogg rich? Undoubtedly. But No. 172G.-VOL. LXI. SATUHDAY, OCTOIlER 6, 1872. those who knew him The Illustrated London best could not imagine how he had made his fortune, and News, founded in 1842, was one of the Mr. Fogg was the last person to whom to apply newspapers available to the gentlemen of the Reform Club. 8 for the information. He was not lavish, nor, on the contrary, avaricious for whenever he knew that money was needed for a . j 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 all the more mysterious for his taciturn manner. His daily habits were quite open to observationj but whatever he did was so exactly Turned countless times by the hands of Jules Verne, the same thing that he had always done before, that the wits of this globe provided geographic data that the curious were fairly puzzled. placed his extravagant tales in a convincingly Had he traveled? It was likely, for no one seemed to know realistic context. the world more familiarly there was no spot so secluded j that he did not appear to have an intimate acquaintance 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 travelers, pointing out the true probabilities, and seeming as if gifted with a sort of second sight, so often did events justify his predictions. He must have traveled everywhere, at least in the spirit. It was at least certain that Phileas Fogg had not absented himself from London for many years. Those who were honored by a better acquaintance with him than the rest, declared that nobody could pretend to have ever seen him anywhere else. His sole pastimes were reading the papers and playing whist. He often won at this game, which, as a silent one, harmonized with his naturej but his winnings never went into his purse, being reserved as a fund for his charities. Mr. Fogg played, not to win, but for the sake of playing. The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a 9 difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes. Phileas Fogg was not known to have either wife or children, which may happen to the most honest people; either relatives or near friends, which is certainly more unusual. He lived alone in his house in Saville Row, whither none penetrated. A single domestic sufficed to serve him. He breakfasted and dined at the club, at hours mathematically fixed, in the same room, at the same table, never taking his meals with other members, much •• It was at least less bringing a guest with him; and went home at exactly certain that Phileas Fogg . . . · lf mldmght, only to retue at once to bed. He never used the cozy h a d not a bs ente d hlmse from London for many chambers which the Reform provides for its favored members. years.~~ 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 the resources of the club-its kitchens and pantries, its buttery and dairy-aided to crowd his table with their most succulent Richard Sheridan-the stores; he was served by the gravest waiters, in dress coats, and Dublin-born playwright whose comic character shoes with swan-skin soles, who proffered the viands in special Mrs. Malaprop, in The Rivals, gave the English porcelain, and on the finest linen; club decanters, of a lost language the word malapropism-died in this mold, contained his sherry, his port, and his cinnamon-spiced home at 7 Savile Row, off claret; while his beverages were refreshingly cooled with ice, Regent Street in London, a century before Verne brought at great cost from the American lakes. gave Phileas Fogg the same elegant address. If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed Verne spelled the street name "Saville." that there is something good in eccentricity. The mansion in Saville Row, though not sumptuous, was exceedingly comfortable. The habits of its occupant were such as to demand but little from the sole domestic, but 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 brought him shaving-water at eighty-four degrees Fahrenheit instead of eighty-six; and he was awaiting his successor, who was due at the house between eleven and half-past. Phileas Fogg was seated squarely in his armchair, his feet An eighteenth-century clock belonging to close together like those of a grenadier on parade, his hands Sheridan. Verne imagined Phileas Fogg using this resting on his knees, his body straight, his head erect; he was kind of timepiece to calculate the hours, steadily watching a complicated clock which indicated the minutes, and seconds in hours, the minutes, the seconds, the days, the months, and the his meticulously planned schedule. years. At exactly half-past eleven Mr. Fogg would, according to his daily habit, quit Saville Row, and repair to the Reform. A rap at this moment sounded on the door of the cozy 11

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