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His daily habits were quite open to observation; but whatever he did was so exactly the same thing that he had always done before, that the wits of the curious were fairly puzzled.
If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.
“I will jump—mathematically.”
“A true Englishman doesn’t joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager,”
You see, a man of sound sense ought not to spend his life jumping from a steamer upon a railway train, and from a railway train upon a steamer again, pretending to make the tour of the world in eighty days!
“I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new.”
But, as it is in human nature to attempt the solution of every mystery,
