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Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical
avaricious; for, whenever he knew that money was needed for a noble, useful, or benevolent purpose, he supplied it quietly and sometimes anonymously. He was, in short, the least communicative of men. He talked very little, and seemed all the more mysterious for his taciturn manner. 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.
He lived alone, and, so to speak, outside of every social relation; and as he knew that in this world account must be taken of friction, and that friction retards, he never rubbed against anybody.
"I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new."
In the way this strange gentleman was going on, he would leave the world without having done any good to himself or anybody else.
"Why, you are a man of heart!" "Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly; "when I have the time."
It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans usually are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.
"I love you!" he said, simply. "Yes, by all that is holiest, I love you, and I am entirely yours!"
What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men! Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?
