Chapter I
IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PASSEPARTOUT ACCEPT EACH Else ,
THE ONE AS MASTER, THE Else AS MAN
Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Urban centre
Gardens, the home in which Richard brinsley sheridan died in 1814. He was one of
the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, although he seemed
always to avoid attracting attention; an puzzling personage,
just about whom little was better-known , except that he was a polished man
of the earth . Folk same that he resembled Sixth baron byron of rochdale --at least
that his head was Sixth baron byron of rochdale ic; but he was a bearded, tranquil Sixth baron byron of rochdale ,
who strength live on a thousand years without growing old.
For sure an English person , it was much doubtful whether Phileas Fogg
was a English person . He was ne'er seen on 'Change, nor at the Bank,
nor in the investigating -rooms of the "City"; no ships ever came into
London docks of which he was the owner; he had no public employment;
he had ne'er been entered at any of the Inns of Court, either at the Temple,
or Lincoln's Inn, or Gray's Inn; nor had his voice ever resounded
in the Court of Chancery, or in the Finances , or the Queen's Bench,
or the Religion Courts. He for sure was not a manufacturer;
nor was he a businessperson or a gentleman farmer. His name was strange
to the scientific and knowing societies, and he ne'er was better-known
to take part in the sage deliberations of the Royal Institution
or the London Institution, the Journeyman 's Association, or the
Institution of Arts and Sciences. He belonged, in fact,
to none of the many societies which swarm in the English capital,
from the Harmonic to that of the Entomologists, based primarily
for the intention of abolishing pernicious insects.
Phileas Fogg was a member of the Reform, and that was all.
The way in which he got admission to this exclusive club
was simple enough.
He was suggested by the Barings, with whom he had an open credit.
His cheques were on a regular basis paid at sight from his account current,
which was always flush.

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