Reading Help Around the world in eighty days Ch.VII-XIII
You know, besides, that the China the only steamer he could have taken `
` from New York to get here in time arrived yesterday. I have seen a list `
` of the passengers, and the name of Phileas Fogg is not among them. `
` Even if we admit that fortune has favoured him, he can scarcely `
` have reached America. I think he will be at least twenty days behind-hand, `
` and that Lord Albemarle will lose a cool five thousand." `
` `
` "It is clear," replied Gauthier Ralph; "and we have nothing to do `
` but to present Mr. Fogg's cheque at Barings to-morrow." `
` `
` At this moment, the hands of the club clock pointed `
` to twenty minutes to nine. `
` `
` "Five minutes more," said Andrew Stuart. `
` `
` The five gentlemen looked at each other. Their anxiety was becoming intense; `
` but, not wishing to betray it, they readily assented to Mr. Fallentin's `
` proposal of a rubber. `
` `
` "I wouldn't give up my four thousand of the bet," said Andrew Stuart, `
` as he took his seat, "for three thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine." `
` `
` The clock indicated eighteen minutes to nine. `
` `
` The players took up their cards, but could not keep their eyes `
` off the clock. Certainly, however secure they felt, `
` minutes had never seemed so long to them! `
` `
` "Seventeen minutes to nine," said Thomas Flanagan, as he cut the cards `
` which Ralph handed to him. `
` `
` Then there was a moment of silence. The great saloon was perfectly quiet; but `
` the murmurs of the crowd outside were heard, with now and then a shrill cry. `
` The pendulum beat the seconds, which each player eagerly counted, `
` as he listened, with mathematical regularity. `
` `
` "Sixteen minutes to nine!" said John Sullivan, in a voice which betrayed `
` his emotion. `
` `
` One minute more, and the wager would be won. Andrew Stuart `
` and his partners suspended their game. They left their cards, `
` and counted the seconds. `
` `
` At the fortieth second, nothing. At the fiftieth, still nothing. `
` `
` At 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!" `
` `
` `
` `
` `
` Chapter XXXVII `
` `
` IN WHICH IT IS SHOWN THAT PHILEAS FOGG GAINED NOTHING BY HIS `
` TOUR AROUND THE WORLD, UNLESS IT WERE HAPPINESS `
` `
` `
` Yes; Phileas Fogg in person. `
` `
` The reader will remember that at five minutes past eight in the evening-- `
` about five and twenty hours after the arrival of the travellers in London-- `
` Passepartout had been sent by his master to engage the services of `
` the Reverend Samuel Wilson in a certain marriage ceremony, `
` which was to take place the next day. `
` `
` Passepartout went on his errand enchanted. He soon `
` reached the clergyman's house, but found him not at home. `
` Passepartout waited a good twenty minutes, and when he left `
` the reverend gentleman, it was thirty-five minutes past eight. `
` But in what a state he was! With his hair in disorder, `
` and without his hat, he ran along the street as never man `
` was seen to run before, overturning passers-by, `
` rushing over the sidewalk like a waterspout. `
` `
` In three minutes he was in Saville Row again, `
` and staggered back into Mr. Fogg's room. `
` `
` He could not speak. `
` `
` "What is the matter?" asked Mr. Fogg. `
` `
` "My master!" gasped Passepartout--"marriage--impossible--" `
` `
` "Impossible?" `
` `
` "Impossible--for to-morrow." `
` `
` "Why so?" `
` `
` "Because to-morrow--is Sunday!" `
` `
` "Monday," replied Mr. Fogg. `
` `
` "No--to-day is Saturday." `
` `
` "Saturday? Impossible!" `
` `
` "Yes, yes, yes, yes!" cried Passepartout. "You have made a mistake `
` of one day! We arrived twenty-four hours ahead of time; `
` but there are only ten minutes left!" `
` `
` Passepartout had seized his master by the collar, `
` and was dragging him along with irresistible force. `
` `
` Phileas Fogg, thus kidnapped, without having time to think, `
` left his house, jumped into a cab, promised a hundred pounds `
` to the cabman, and, having run over two dogs and overturned `
` five carriages, reached the Reform Club. `
` `
` The clock indicated a quarter before nine when he appeared `
` in the great saloon. `
` `
` Phileas Fogg had accomplished the journey round the world in eighty days! `
` `
` Phileas Fogg had won his wager of twenty thousand pounds! `
` `
` How was it that a man so exact and fastidious could have made `
` this error of a day? 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? `
` `
` The cause of the error is very simple. `
` `
` Phileas Fogg had, without suspecting it, gained one day on his journey, `
` and this merely because he had travelled constantly eastward; he would, `
` on the contrary, have lost a day had he gone in the opposite direction, `
` that is, westward. `
` `
` 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. `
` `
` And Passepartout's famous family watch, which had always kept London time, `
` would have betrayed this fact, if it had marked the days as well as `
` the hours and the minutes! `
` `
` Phileas Fogg, then, had won the twenty thousand pounds; but, `
` as he had spent nearly nineteen thousand on the way, the pecuniary `
` gain was small. His object was, however, to be victorious, `
` and not to win money. He divided the one thousand pounds `
` that remained between Passepartout and the unfortunate Fix, `
` against whom he cherished no grudge. He deducted, however, `
` from Passepartout's share the cost of the gas which had burned `
` in his room for nineteen hundred and twenty hours, `
` for the sake of regularity. `
` `
` That evening, Mr. Fogg, as tranquil and phlegmatic as ever, `
` said to Aouda: "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--" `
` `
` "Dear Mr. Fogg!" said the young woman. `
` `
` "Dear Aouda!" replied Phileas Fogg. `
` `
` It need not be said that the marriage took place forty-eight hours after, `
` and that Passepartout, glowing and dazzling, gave the bride away. `
` Had he not saved her, and was he not entitled to this honour? `
` `
` The next day, as soon as it was light, Passepartout rapped `
` vigorously at his master's door. Mr. Fogg opened it, and asked, `
` "What's the matter, Passepartout?" `
` `
` "What is it, sir? Why, I've just this instant found out--" `
` `
` "What?" `
` `
` "That we might have made the tour of the world in only seventy-eight days." `
` `
` "No doubt," returned Mr. Fogg, "by not crossing India. But if `
` I had not crossed India, I should not have saved Aouda; `
` she would not have been my wife, and--" `
` `
` Mr. Fogg quietly shut the door. `
` `
` Phileas Fogg had won his wager, and had made his journey `
` around the world in eighty days. To do this he had employed `
` every means of conveyance--steamers, railways, carriages, yachts, `
` trading-vessels, sledges, elephants. The eccentric gentleman `
`
` from New York to get here in time arrived yesterday. I have seen a list `
` of the passengers, and the name of Phileas Fogg is not among them. `
` Even if we admit that fortune has favoured him, he can scarcely `
` have reached America. I think he will be at least twenty days behind-hand, `
` and that Lord Albemarle will lose a cool five thousand." `
` `
` "It is clear," replied Gauthier Ralph; "and we have nothing to do `
` but to present Mr. Fogg's cheque at Barings to-morrow." `
` `
` At this moment, the hands of the club clock pointed `
` to twenty minutes to nine. `
` `
` "Five minutes more," said Andrew Stuart. `
` `
` The five gentlemen looked at each other. Their anxiety was becoming intense; `
` but, not wishing to betray it, they readily assented to Mr. Fallentin's `
` proposal of a rubber. `
` `
` "I wouldn't give up my four thousand of the bet," said Andrew Stuart, `
` as he took his seat, "for three thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine." `
` `
` The clock indicated eighteen minutes to nine. `
` `
` The players took up their cards, but could not keep their eyes `
` off the clock. Certainly, however secure they felt, `
` minutes had never seemed so long to them! `
` `
` "Seventeen minutes to nine," said Thomas Flanagan, as he cut the cards `
` which Ralph handed to him. `
` `
` Then there was a moment of silence. The great saloon was perfectly quiet; but `
` the murmurs of the crowd outside were heard, with now and then a shrill cry. `
` The pendulum beat the seconds, which each player eagerly counted, `
` as he listened, with mathematical regularity. `
` `
` "Sixteen minutes to nine!" said John Sullivan, in a voice which betrayed `
` his emotion. `
` `
` One minute more, and the wager would be won. Andrew Stuart `
` and his partners suspended their game. They left their cards, `
` and counted the seconds. `
` `
` At the fortieth second, nothing. At the fiftieth, still nothing. `
` `
` At 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!" `
` `
` `
` `
` `
` Chapter XXXVII `
` `
` IN WHICH IT IS SHOWN THAT PHILEAS FOGG GAINED NOTHING BY HIS `
` TOUR AROUND THE WORLD, UNLESS IT WERE HAPPINESS `
` `
` `
` Yes; Phileas Fogg in person. `
` `
` The reader will remember that at five minutes past eight in the evening-- `
` about five and twenty hours after the arrival of the travellers in London-- `
` Passepartout had been sent by his master to engage the services of `
` the Reverend Samuel Wilson in a certain marriage ceremony, `
` which was to take place the next day. `
` `
` Passepartout went on his errand enchanted. He soon `
` reached the clergyman's house, but found him not at home. `
` Passepartout waited a good twenty minutes, and when he left `
` the reverend gentleman, it was thirty-five minutes past eight. `
` But in what a state he was! With his hair in disorder, `
` and without his hat, he ran along the street as never man `
` was seen to run before, overturning passers-by, `
` rushing over the sidewalk like a waterspout. `
` `
` In three minutes he was in Saville Row again, `
` and staggered back into Mr. Fogg's room. `
` `
` He could not speak. `
` `
` "What is the matter?" asked Mr. Fogg. `
` `
` "My master!" gasped Passepartout--"marriage--impossible--" `
` `
` "Impossible?" `
` `
` "Impossible--for to-morrow." `
` `
` "Why so?" `
` `
` "Because to-morrow--is Sunday!" `
` `
` "Monday," replied Mr. Fogg. `
` `
` "No--to-day is Saturday." `
` `
` "Saturday? Impossible!" `
` `
` "Yes, yes, yes, yes!" cried Passepartout. "You have made a mistake `
` of one day! We arrived twenty-four hours ahead of time; `
` but there are only ten minutes left!" `
` `
` Passepartout had seized his master by the collar, `
` and was dragging him along with irresistible force. `
` `
` Phileas Fogg, thus kidnapped, without having time to think, `
` left his house, jumped into a cab, promised a hundred pounds `
` to the cabman, and, having run over two dogs and overturned `
` five carriages, reached the Reform Club. `
` `
` The clock indicated a quarter before nine when he appeared `
` in the great saloon. `
` `
` Phileas Fogg had accomplished the journey round the world in eighty days! `
` `
` Phileas Fogg had won his wager of twenty thousand pounds! `
` `
` How was it that a man so exact and fastidious could have made `
` this error of a day? 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? `
` `
` The cause of the error is very simple. `
` `
` Phileas Fogg had, without suspecting it, gained one day on his journey, `
` and this merely because he had travelled constantly eastward; he would, `
` on the contrary, have lost a day had he gone in the opposite direction, `
` that is, westward. `
` `
` 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. `
` `
` And Passepartout's famous family watch, which had always kept London time, `
` would have betrayed this fact, if it had marked the days as well as `
` the hours and the minutes! `
` `
` Phileas Fogg, then, had won the twenty thousand pounds; but, `
` as he had spent nearly nineteen thousand on the way, the pecuniary `
` gain was small. His object was, however, to be victorious, `
` and not to win money. He divided the one thousand pounds `
` that remained between Passepartout and the unfortunate Fix, `
` against whom he cherished no grudge. He deducted, however, `
` from Passepartout's share the cost of the gas which had burned `
` in his room for nineteen hundred and twenty hours, `
` for the sake of regularity. `
` `
` That evening, Mr. Fogg, as tranquil and phlegmatic as ever, `
` said to Aouda: "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--" `
` `
` "Dear Mr. Fogg!" said the young woman. `
` `
` "Dear Aouda!" replied Phileas Fogg. `
` `
` It need not be said that the marriage took place forty-eight hours after, `
` and that Passepartout, glowing and dazzling, gave the bride away. `
` Had he not saved her, and was he not entitled to this honour? `
` `
` The next day, as soon as it was light, Passepartout rapped `
` vigorously at his master's door. Mr. Fogg opened it, and asked, `
` "What's the matter, Passepartout?" `
` `
` "What is it, sir? Why, I've just this instant found out--" `
` `
` "What?" `
` `
` "That we might have made the tour of the world in only seventy-eight days." `
` `
` "No doubt," returned Mr. Fogg, "by not crossing India. But if `
` I had not crossed India, I should not have saved Aouda; `
` she would not have been my wife, and--" `
` `
` Mr. Fogg quietly shut the door. `
` `
` Phileas Fogg had won his wager, and had made his journey `
` around the world in eighty days. To do this he had employed `
` every means of conveyance--steamers, railways, carriages, yachts, `
` trading-vessels, sledges, elephants. The eccentric gentleman `
`