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1873
AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
by Jules Verne
CHAPTER I
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 1816. He was one of the
most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to
avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical personage, about whom
little was known, except that he was as a polished man the world.
People said that he resembled Byron, -at least that his head was
Byronic; but he was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live on a
thousand years without growing old.
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. His name
was strange to the scientific and learned societies, and he never
was known to take part in the sage deliberations of the Royal
Institution or the London Institution, the Artisans 'Association or
the Institution of Arts and Sciences. He belonged, in fact, to none of
the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital, from the
Harmonic to that of the Entomologists, founded mainly for the
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