Around the World in 80 Days

by Jules Verne

His young companion felt herself more and more attached to him by other ties than gratitude; his silent but generous nature impressed her more than she thought; and it was almost unconsciously that she yielded to emotions which did not seem to have the least effect upon her protector. Aouda took the keenest interest in his plans, and became impatient at any incident which seemed likely to retard his journey.

instead of as now indicating nine o'clock in the morning, indicate nine o'clock in the evening, that is, the twenty-first hour after midnight precisely the difference between London time and that of the one hundred and eightieth meridian.

"Colonel Stamp Proctor."

"What a country!" cried he. "Mere cattle stop the trains, and go by in a procession, just as if they were not impeding travel!

but it must not be supposed that all the Mormons are polygamists. They are free to marry or not, as they please;

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

Passepartout ventured to ask him politely how many wives he had; for, from the manner in which he had decamped, it might be thought that he had twenty at least. "One, sir," replied the Mormon, raising his arms heavenward —"one, and that was enough!"

7th December,

Aouda recognised Colonel Stamp Proctor, the same who had so grossly insulted Phileas Fogg at the San Francisco meeting.

it would be more natural for us to cross the bridge on foot, and let the train come after!"

She defended herself like a true heroine with a revolver, which she shot through the broken windows whenever a savage made his appearance.

The delay of a single day would make him lose the steamer at New York, and his bet would be certainly lost. But as he thought, "It is my duty," he did not hesitate.

"My friends, I will divide five thousand dollars among you, if we save the prisoners."

"It must certainly be confessed that I cost my master dear!"

on a sledge,"

morning, of the 11th,

12th of December.

offer you two thousand."

Mr. Fogg manage the craft, that he had been a sailor.

"Burn my vessel!" cried Captain Speedy,

vessel worth fifty thousand dollars!"

"Here are sixty t...

Phileas Fogg at last disembarked on the Liverpool quay, at twenty minutes before twelve, 21st December. He was only six hours distant from London. But at this moment Fix came up, put his hand upon Mr. Fogg's shoulder, and, showing his warrant, said, "You are really Phileas Fogg?"

Having arrived at Liverpool at twenty minutes before twelve on the 21st of December, he had till a quarter before nine that evening to reach the Reform Club, that is, nine hours and a quarter; the journey from Liverpool to London was six hours.

On the line where these words were written, "21st December, Saturday, Liverpool," he added, "80th day, 11.40 a.m.," and waited.

The Custom House clock struck one. Mr. Fogg observed that his watch was two hours too fast. Two hours! Admitting that he was at this moment taking an express train, he could reach London and the Reform Club by a quarter before nine, p.m. His forehead slightly wrinkled.

"sir—forgive me—most—unfortunate resemblance—robber arrested three days ago—you are free!"

Having made the tour of the world, he was behind-hand five minutes. He had lost the wager!

First of all, the worthy fellow had gone up to his room, and had extinguished the gas burner, which had been burning for eighty days.

"My master! Mr. Fogg!" he cried, "why do you not curse me? It was my fault that—" "I blame no one," returned Phileas Fogg, with perfect calmness. "Go!"

"Please let me finish," returned Mr. Fogg. "When I decided to bring you far away from the country which was so unsafe for you, I was rich, and counted on putting a portion of my fortune at your disposal;

They say, though, that misery itself, shared by two sympathetic souls, may be borne with patience."

"do you wish at once a kinswoman and friend? Will you have me for your wife?"

"I love you!" he said, simply. "Yes, by all that is holiest, I love you, and I am entirely yours!"

"Yes; for to-morrow, Monday," she replied.

The 17th of December, the day of James Strand's arrest, was the seventy-sixth since Phileas Fogg's departure,

"Well, gentlemen," resumed Andrew Stuart, "if Phileas Fogg had come in the 7:23 train, he would have got here by this time. We can, therefore, regard the bet as won."

the fifty-fifth, a loud cry was heard in the street, followed by applause, hurrahs, and some fierce growls. The players rose from their seats. At the fifty-seventh second the door of the saloon opened; and the pendulum had not beat the sixtieth second when Phileas Fogg appeared, followed by an excited crowd who had forced their way through the club doors, and in his calm voice, said, "Here I am, gentlemen!"

"Because to-morrow—is Sunday!" "Monday," replied Mr. Fogg. "No—to-day is Saturday." "Saturday? Impossible!"

Phileas Fogg had accomplished the journey round the world in eighty days! Phileas Fogg had won his wager of twenty thousand pounds!

How came he to think that he had arrived in London on Saturday, the twenty-first day of December, when it was really Friday, the twentieth, the seventy-ninth day only from his departure?

In journeying eastward he had gone towards the sun, and the days therefore diminished for him as many times four minutes as he crossed degrees in this direction. There are three hundred and sixty degrees on the circumference of the earth; and these three hundred and sixty degrees, multiplied by four minutes, gives precisely twenty-four hours—that is, the day unconsciously gained. In other words, while Phileas Fogg, going eastward, saw the sun pass the meridian eighty times, his friends in London only saw it pass the meridian seventy-nine times. This is why they awaited him at the Reform Club on Saturday, and not Sunday, as Mr. Fogg thought.

"Is our marriage still agreeable to you?" "Mr. Fogg," replied she, "it is for me to ask that question. You were ruined, but now you are rich again."

"Pardon me, madam; my fortune belongs to you. If you had not suggested our marriage, my servant would not have gone to the Reverend Samuel Wilson's, I should not have been apprised of my error, and—"

"That we might have made the tour of the world in only seventy-eight days."

To do this he had employed every means of conveyance—steamers, railways, carriages, yachts, trading-vessels, sledges, elephants.