Around the World in Eighty Days(八十天环游地球)
Jules Verne
Chapter 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. 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 a
polished man of 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 i…