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The Tour of the World in Eighty Days (Classic Reprint)
The Tour of the World in Eighty Days - Classic Reprint Author:Jules Verne OHAPTER I IN WIJJCH PHILEAS FOGG AND PASSEPARTOUT ACCErT EACH OTHER-THE OX E ~S ~ASTEH, TUE OTHER AS SERVX~rr. IN the year 1872, the house No. " Saville How, nnrIington Gardens-the house in which Sheridan diod, in 1814- wa9 inhabited by Phileas Fogg, Hsq., ono of tho most singular and most noticed members of tho Hcform Club of London, ulthough b... more »e seemed to take care to do nothing which might attract atten tiOD. This PhileM ~'ogg, tlJen, fln enigmatic personage, of wholn nothing was kuown but that he was:). very polite man, and onS of the most perfoct gontlemon of good English society, succeccled one of the groatest orators that honor Enghnd. An Englishman Phileas Vogg 'vas surely, but perhap~ not a Londc;mer. lIe was ncrel' seen on 'Change, at the J~a.nk, or in any 01 tho coulltiog-rooms or the City. 'rhe docks of London had never received a vessel fitted out by Phileas Fogg. This gent1elnaD did not figur~ in any ~ublic body. IIi~ name had never sounded in an
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