4.3 Around The World in 80 Days-3

Prof Farheen Ansari
B.com, CS, LLB, PGDIPR 4.3 Around the World in Eighty Days
4.3 AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
 ABOUT THE WRITER:
 Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 - 1905) was a French novelist,

poet, and playwright.
 Verne wrote widely popular series of adventure

novels including
 Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864),
 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
(1870),
 Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).
 Verne is generally considered a major literary author

in France and most of Europe
 Verne has been the second most translated author in the

world.
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 CHARACTERS OF THE NOVEL: [MAJOR CHARACTERS]
I] PHILEAS FOGG: [Protagonist] II] JEAN PASSEPARTOUT:

 He is a precise & intelligent man,  He is the loyal servant of Fogg. He listens to
impeccable in manners and very punctual. his every command.
 Fogg is wealthy but simple and reserved.  He is willing to partake on the world journey
and assist Fogg.
He doesn’t socialize much.
 He is innocent and unknowingly gets himself
 He regularly visits to the Reform Club. into trouble along the way.
 He took a wager with the member in the  He is humorous yet brave.

club that he can travel the world in 80
days. He is determined to win the wager.  His lightheartedness and his blunders are in
complete contrast to Fogg’s seriousness and
 He doesn’t give up and is determined in meticulousness. Together they make an
what he wants. unforgettable pair.
III] AOUDA:
 She is an Indian Princess who was rescued by Fogg.
 She later on shares the adventures with Fogg and

Passepartout.
 She is extremely grateful for the kindness extended to her.
 She cares for both Fogg and Passepartout, but later falls in
love with Fogg.
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IV] DETECTIVE FIX:
 A Short man with small eyes and bushy eyebrows that twitched
constantly.
 He thinks and suspects Fogg to be the robber who robbed the

Bank of England.
 He follows Fogg, Passepartout and Aouda around the world.
 He is materialistic- because he follows Fogg as there is a

reward.
 CHARACTERS OF THE NOVEL: [MINOR CHARACTERS]
• Sir Francis Cromarty
• John Bunsby
• The Reform Club Members
• The Parsee Guide
• Colonel Stamp Proctor
• Mr. Camerfield
• Mr. Mandiboy
• Elder William Hitch
• Mudge
• Captain Speedy
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 PLOT OF THE NOVEL:
Around the World in Eighty Days begins at the

Reform Club in England with Phileas Fogg, Thomas
Flanagan, Samuel Fallentin, and John Sullivan sitting
by a fireplace reading newspapers.
We are introduced to Fogg, a very precise

(specific/accurate) man who regularly goes to the
Reform Club every evening.
At the Reform Club, Fogg, Flanagan, Fallentin, and Sullivan are talking
about a recent bank robbery. This conversation leads to a wager (bet).
Fogg is quite sure he can travel around the world in eighty days, while
Sullivan doesn’t believe it can be done. Sullivan, Flanagan, and Fallentin
think Fogg is not considering the unexpected; all of the men accept the
wager for twenty-thousand pounds.
This is the beginning of the entire plot and from then

on we see how Fogg goes around the world and we
witness the amazing adventures that he has with his
companions (friends).
The main plot is based on Fogg’s travels, while other

such plots merely support the central theme.
Fix, the detective, follows Fogg all over. He believes that Fogg is the bank
robber who has robbed a great sum from the bank of England. He puts
obstacles (difficulties) in Fogg’s path just so that he can arrest him
whenever he gets the warrant from England. The suspicion that Fogg
might be a clever gentleman robber is the sub-theme of the book and the
author makes the reader also suspicious. Passepartout too wonders
whether his master might be a robber though in his heart he has ample
trust in Fogg’s integrity (honesty).
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The plot moves ahead with Fogg striving

through various obstacles (difficulties) to
reach London in time.
He goes through Brindisi, Suez, Bombay
(Now Mumbai), Calcutta (Now Kolkata),
Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, New
York and finally Liverpool.
Fix arrests Fogg at Liverpool and this delays Fogg a bit. He thinks
that he has missed the deadline and hasn’t reached London in
time when in reality he reached a full day earlier. Thus Fogg
wins the wager and in the course of his travels, finds himself a
worthy charming, beautiful wife too.
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 THEME OF THE NOVEL:
Courage amidst adversities.

Perseverance and Determination is
the best motivation towards success.
Generosity and goodwill pays.
The novel is full of adventure and the excitement which

the readers come across and enjoy from the beginning to
the end. Phileas Fogg, the major character in the novel,
accepts the challenge to go around the world in eighty
days and in accomplishing this feat (achievement) he
goes through various lands and meets with diverse
(various) adventures. Thus the novel proceeds at a fast
pace (speed) and there is always some excitement
resulting from the various encounters (experience). The
beauty of the novel is that the writer takes the readers to a
journey of many hair-raising (terrifying) incidents and
exciting, adventurous, thrilling yet beautiful places in the
world.
The most important feature of this adventure novel is ‘Time’. It

illustrates repeatedly that time is fickle (changes frequently),
and either works for or against them. In many cases, time foils
(prevent/defeat) their plans, when the delays build up and
ships and trains leave without them that sometimes land the
characters in trouble. In the end, Fogg wins the bet as he
gained a day when crossing the International Date Line. The
ultimate message is that;
no one can control time; time will work the way it wants to work, and humans are at its mercy
Before his journey around the world, Fogg lived a solitary (lonely) life. He closed himself
off to others and cared little about the way he was perceived (thought) by other
people.
By the end of the trip, though, he recognizes the importance of

human connections, both in the form of love, with Aouda, and
friendship and loyalty, with Passepartout. Above all, this new
understanding and appreciation is the greatest thing he has
gained from this trip.
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Though he has the opportunity to double his fortune

(wealth), Fogg’s motivation to embark (start) on such
a crazy adventure has little to do with the money.
Instead, he wants to preserve his honour and prove
his worth to the men of the Reform Club, to show that
he can do what he sets out to do. Fogg spends
nearly all of his money along the way, showing that
riches are not what he is truly out for. For Phileas
Fogg, honour is more important than money.
Throughout the entire trip, Fogg and his group encounter (meets)
various obstacles (difficulties) standing in their way. These
challenges allow them to use their quick thinking to come up with
innovative solutions to even the most complicated of problems,
relaying the message that no problem is unsolvable. It is not only
Fogg who shows his clever wit in coming up with solutions;
Passepartout, too, shows his ingenuity (cleverness) in multiple
situations.
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SYNOPSIS OF THE EXTRACT
As soon as Fogg, Aouda and Passepartout arrive in Liverpool, Fix

arrests Fogg. Phileas is thrown in jail. Several hours later, though, Fix
learns that another man was responsible for the bank robbery, and he
releases Fogg, who orders a special train. However, he arrives in
London late, making everyone disappointed.
Phileas and company are now broke (bankrupt), the deadline for the bet has passed,
and there’s nothing to do but go home and pout (make a face).
Phileas locks himself in his room and, for the first time, allows himself to be seriously
depressed. Aouda and Passepartout are so worried that they too can’t eat or sleep.
The following evening Fogg apologizes to Aouda for being

unable to provide for her comfort as a result of losing the
bet. She in turn proposes marriage to him, and he joyfully
agrees. Passepartout is sent to engage a clergyman (priest),
he runs off to get a reverend (member of the clergy) to
marry Fogg and Aouda the next day (which they all think
is Monday).
While running to grab the nearest preacher (to marry Phileas and Aouda), Passepartout
finds out that it’s actually Sunday, not Monday, like the group has been thinking. By
travelling eastward around the world, Phileas Fogg, master calculator and obsessive
organizer, has forgotten the time he’s gained by journeying through all those time
zones. He learns that their journey through the time zones had gained them a day and
that they are not at all late.
Passepartout races home, grabs Phileas by the collar,

shoves him into a cab, and deposits him at the club. Phileas
presents himself with minutes to spare and effectively wins
the bet. He’s rich once more, but more important (as he says
to himself), he has won the heart of a “charming” woman.
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AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
Chapter XXXIV (34)

In which Phileas Fogg at last reaches London
Phileas Fogg was in prison. He had been shut up in the Custom House,
and he was to be transferred to London the next day.
Passepartout, when he saw his master arrested, would have fallen upon
(attack) Fix had he not been held back by some
policemen. Aouda was thunderstruck (shocked) at the
suddenness of an event which she could not understand. Passepartout
explained to her how it was that the honest and courageous Fogg was
arrested as a robber. The young woman’s heart revolted (disgusted)
against so heinous (bad/wicked) a charge, and when she saw that she
could attempt to do nothing to save her protector, she wept bitterly (in
anger).
As for Fix, he had arrested Mr. Fogg because it was his duty, whether Mr. Fogg was
guilty or not.
The thought then struck Passepartout, that he was the cause of this
new misfortune! Had he not concealed (hide) Fix’s errand
(task/assignment) from his master? When Fix revealed his true
character and purpose, why had he not told Mr. Fogg? If the latter
had been warned, he would no doubt have given Fix proof of his
innocence, and satisfied him of his mistake; at least, Fix would not
have continued his journey at the expense and on the heels of
(directly behind) his master, only to arrest him the moment he set foot
on English soil. Passepartout wept till he was blind (cry too much), and
felt like blowing his brains out (it was killing him).
Aouda and he had remained, despite the cold, under the portico
(veranda) of the Custom House. Neither wished to leave the place;
both were anxious (nervous) to see Mr. Fogg again.
That gentleman was really ruined (destroyed), and that at the

moment when he was about to attain his end (to accomplish). This
arrest was fatal (deadly). Having arrived at Liverpool at twenty minutes before twelve
(11.40 am) on the 21st of December, he had till a quarter before nine (8.45 pm) that
evening to reach the Reform Club, that is, nine hours and a quarter; the journey from
Liverpool to London was six hours.
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If anyone, at this moment, had entered the Custom House, he would have
found Mr. Fogg seated, motionless, calm, and without apparent (clear)
anger, upon a wooden bench. He was not, it is true, resigned (accepted
defeat); but this last blow failed to force him into an outward (from outside)
betrayal (feel of dishonesty) of any emotion. Was he being devoured
(destroyed) by one of those secret rages (anger), all the more terrible
because contained, and which only burst forth, with an irresistible force, at
the last moment? No one could tell. There he sat, calmly waiting—for what? Did he still
cherish hope? Did he still believe, now that the door of this prison was closed upon him,
that he would succeed?
However that may have been, Mr. Fogg carefully put his watch upon
the table, and observed its advancing hands (moving hands of the
clock). Not a word escaped (came out) his lips, but his look was
singularly set (no movement) and stern. The situation, in any event, was
a terrible one, and might be thus stated: if Phileas Fogg was honest he
was ruined; if he was a knave (dishonest), he was caught.
Did escape occur to him? Did he examine to see if there was any practicable outlet
from his prison? Did he think of escaping from it? Possibly; for once he walked slowly
around the room. But the door was locked, and the window heavily barred with iron
rods. He sat down again, and drew his journal from his pocket. 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 (1 pm). 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. (8.45 pm) his forehead slightly wrinkled.
At thirty-three minutes past two (2:33 pm) he heard a singular noise outside, then a
hasty (quick) opening of doors. Passepartout’s voice was audible, and immediately
after that of Fix. Phileas Fogg’s eyes brightened for an instant.
The door swung open, and he saw Passepartout, Aouda, and Fix, who hurried towards
him.
Fix was out of breath, and his hair was in disorder. He could not speak.
“Sir,” he stammered, “Sir-forgive me-most unfortunate resemblance-
robber arrested three days ago-you are free!”
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Phileas Fogg was free! He walked to the detective, looked him

steadily (seriously) in the face, and with the only rapid motion he had
ever made in his life, or which he ever would make, drew back his
arms, and with the precision (accuracy) of a machine, knocked Fix
down.
“Well hit!” cried Passepartout, “Parbleu! (Certainly. Good Lord) that’s what you might
call a good application of English fists!”
Fix, who found himself on the floor, did not utter a word. He had only received his
desserts. Mr. Fogg, Aouda, and Passepartout left the Custom House without delay, got
into a cab, and in a few moments descended (go down) at the station.
Phileas Fogg asked if there was an express train about to leave

for London. It was forty minutes past two (2:40 pm). The express
train had left thirty-five minutes before. Phileas Fogg then ordered
a special train.
There were several rapid locomotives (railway) on hand; but the railway arrangements
did not permit the special train to leave until three o’clock.
At that hour Phileas Fogg, having stimulated (encouraged) the engineer by the offer of
a generous reward, at last set out towards London with Aouda and his faithful servant.
It was necessary to make the journey in five hours and a half; and this
would have been easy on a clear road throughout. But there were
forced delays, and when Mr. Fogg stepped from the train at the
terminus, all the clocks in London were striking ten minutes before nine
(8:50 pm).
Having made the tour of the world, he was behind-hand five minutes. He had lost the
wager!
Lost by 5 minutes!
8.45 pm 8.50 pm
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Chapter XXXV (35)

In which Phileas Fogg does not have to repeat his orders to Passepartout twice
THE dwellers (residents) in Saville Row [Street in London] would have been
surprised the next day, if they had been told that Phileas Fogg had
returned home. His doors and windows were still closed; no appearance of
change was visible.
After leaving the station, Mr. Fogg gave Passepartout

instructions to purchase some provisions
(supplies/necessities), and quietly went to his
domicile (home).
He bore (digging) his misfortune (bad luck) with his habitual tranquility (peace). Ruined!
And by the blundering (error) of the detective! After having steadily traversed (travel
across) that long journey, overcome a hundred obstacles (difficulties), braved many
dangers, and still found time to do some good on his way, to fail near the goal by a
sudden event which he could not have foreseen (predicted), and against which he was
unarmed (not protected); it was terrible!
But a few pounds were left of the large sum he had carried with him.
There only remained of his fortune the twenty thousand pounds
deposited at Barings [Private Bank], and this amount he owed to his
friends of the Reform Club. So great had been the expense of his tour
that, even had he won, it would not have enriched him; and it is
probable that he had not sought to enrich himself, being a man who
rather laid wagers for honour’s sake than for the stake proposed. But
this wager totally ruined him.
Mr. Fogg’s course, however, was fully decided upon; he knew what
remained for him to do.
A room in the house in Saville Row was set apart for Aouda, who was
overwhelmed with grief (sadness) at her protector’s misfortune. From the
words which Mr. Fogg dropped, she saw that he was meditating (thinking)
some serious project.
Knowing that Englishmen governed by a fixed idea sometimes resort to the

desperate expedient of suicide, Passepartout kept a narrow watch upon his
master, though he carefully concealed (hide) the appearance of so doing.
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He had found a bill from the gas company.
First of all, the worthy fellow had gone up to his

room, and had extinguished (put out) the gas
burner, which had been burning for eighty days.
He had found in the letterbox a bill from the gas
company, and he thought it more than time to put
a stop to this expense, which he had been
doomed to (compel) bear.
The night passed. Mr. Fogg went to bed, but did he sleep?
Aouda did not once close her eyes. Passepartout watched all
night, like a faithful dog, at his master’s door.
Mr. Fogg called him in the morning, and told him to

get Aouda’s breakfast, and a cup of tea and a chop
(meat) for himself.
He desired Aouda to excuse him (leave him for sometime) from

breakfast and dinner, as his time would be absorbed (engaged) all
day in putting his affairs to rights. In the evening he would ask
permission to have a few moment’s conversation with the young
lady.
Passepartout, having received his orders, had nothing to do but obey them. He looked
at his imperturbable (calm/cool) master, and could scarcely (hardly)
bring his mind to leave him. His heart was full, and his conscience
(intuitions) tortured by remorse (guilt); for he accused himself more
bitterly than ever of being the cause of the irretrievable (that cannot be
changed) disaster. Yes! if he had warned Mr. Fogg, and had betrayed
Fix’s projects to him, his master would certainly not have given the
detective passage to Liverpool, and then—
Passepartout could hold in no longer.
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“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!”
Passepartout left the room, and went to find Aouda, to whom he delivered his master’s
message.
“Madam,” he added, “I can do nothing myself—nothing! I have no

influence over my master; but you, perhaps—”
“What influence could I have?” replied Aouda. “Mr. Fogg

is influenced by no one. Has he ever understood that my
gratitude to him is overflowing? Has he ever read my
heart? My friend, he must not be left alone an instant!
You say he is going to speak with me this evening?”
“Yes, madam; probably to arrange for your protection and comfort in

England.”
“We shall see,” replied Aouda, becoming suddenly

pensive (thinking).
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Throughout this day (Sunday) the house in Saville Row was as if uninhabited
(without people), and Phileas Fogg, for the first time since he had lived in
that house, did not set out for his club when Westminster clock struck half-
past eleven (11.30 am).
Why should he present himself at the Reform? His

friends no longer expected him there. As Phileas
Fogg had not appeared in the saloon (a public
room) on the evening before (Saturday, the 21st of December,
at a quarter before nine), he had lost his wager. It was not
even necessary that he should go to his bankers for the twenty
thousand pounds; for his antagonists (opposite party) already
had his cheque in their hands, and they had only to fill it out
and send it to the Barings to have the amount transferred to
their credit.
Mr. Fogg, therefore, had no reason for going out, and so he remained at home. He shut
himself up in his room, and busied (occupied) himself putting his affairs in order.
Passepartout continually ascended and descended (climb up and down) the stairs. The
hours were long for him. He listened at his master’s door, and looked
through the keyhole, as if he had a perfect right so to do, and as if he
feared that something terrible might happen at any moment.
Sometimes he thought of Fix, but no longer in anger. Fix, like all the
world, had been mistaken in Phileas Fogg, and had only done his
duty in tracking and arresting him; while he, Passepartout. . . . This
thought haunted (scared) him, and he never ceased (stopped)
cursing his miserable folly (foolishness).
Finding himself too wretched (unhappy) to remain alone, he knocked at

Aouda’s door, went into her room, seated himself, without speaking, in a
corner, and looked ruefully (with sorrow) at the young woman. Aouda
was still pensive (thinking deeply).
About half-past seven (7.30 pm) in the evening Mr. Fogg sent to know if Aouda would
receive (accept) him, and in a few moments he found himself
alone with her.
Phileas Fogg took a chair, and sat down near the fireplace,
opposite Aouda. No emotion was visible on his face. Fogg
returned was exactly the Fogg who had gone away; there was
the same calm, the same impassibility (incapable of any
feelings).
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He sat several minutes without speaking; then, bending his eyes (looking) on Aouda,
“Madam, will you pardon me for bringing you to

England?”
“I, Mr. Fogg!” replied Aouda, checking the pulsations

of her heart.
“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; then your existence
would have been free and happy. But now I am ruined.”
“I know it, Mr. Fogg and I ask you in my turn, will you
forgive me for having followed you, and—who
knows?—for having, perhaps, delayed you, and thus
contributed to your ruin?”
“Madam, you could not remain in India, and your safety could only be
assured by bringing you to such a distance that your persecutors could not
take you.”
“So, Mr. Fogg,” resumed Aouda, “not content with rescuing me

from a terrible death, you thought yourself bound to secure my
comfort in a foreign land?”
“Yes, madam; but circumstances have been against me. Still, I beg to place
the little I have left at your service.”
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“But what will become of you, Mr. Fogg?”
“As for me, madam,” replied the gentleman, coldly,

“I have need of nothing.”
“But how do you look upon the fate, sir, which awaits
you?”
“As I am in the habit of doing.”
“At least want should not overtake a man like you. Your
friends—”
“I have no friends, madam.”
“Your relatives—”
“I have no longer any relatives.”
“I pity you, then, Mr. Fogg, for solitude (loneliness) is a

sad thing, with no heart to which to confide (share) your
griefs (sorrow). They say, though, that misery (suffering)
itself, shared by two sympathetic souls, may be borne
with patience.”
“They say so, madam.”
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“Mr. Fogg,” said Aouda, rising and seizing (holding) his hand, “do you
wish at once a kinswoman (relative) and friend? Will you have me for your
wife?”
Mr. Fogg, at this, rose (stood) in his turn. There was an unwonted (unusual) light in his
eyes, and a slight trembling (shaking) of his lips. Aouda looked into his face. The
sincerity, rectitude (goodness), firmness, and sweetness of this soft glance of a noble
woman, who could dare all to save him to whom she owed all, at first astonished, then
penetrated (forced) him. He shut his eyes for an instant, as if to avoid her look. When he
opened them again,
“I love you!” he said, simply. “Yes, by all that is

holiest, I love you, and I am entirely yours!”
“Ah!” cried Aouda, pressing his hand to her

heart.
Passepartout was summoned (called upon) and appeared immediately. Mr. Fogg still
held Aouda’s hand in his own; Passepartout understood, and his big, round face
became as radiant (bright) as the tropical sun at its zenith (very bright).
Mr. Fogg asked him if it was not too late to notify the Reverend
Samuel Wilson, of Marylebone parish, that evening.
Passepartout smiled his most genial (friendly) smile, and said,

“Never too late.”
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It was five minutes past eight (8:05 pm).
Passepartout: “Will it be for to-morrow, Monday?”
“For to-morrow, Monday,” said Mr. Fogg,

turning to Aouda.
“Yes; for to-morrow, Monday,” she replied.
Passepartout hurried off as fast as his legs could carry him.
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Chapter XXXVI (36)

In which Phileas Fogg’s name is once more at a premium on ‘change’.
It is time to relate what a change took place in English public

opinion (newspaper) when it transpired (revealed) that the real
bank robber, a certain James Strand, had been arrested, on
the 17th day of December, at Edinburgh. Three days before,
Phileas Fogg had been a criminal, who was being desperately
followed up by the police; now he was an honourable
gentleman, mathematically pursuing his eccentric (unusually/odd) journey round the
world.
The papers resumed their discussion about the wager; all those who had laid bets, for or
against him, revived (restore) their interest, as if by magic; the “Phileas Fogg bonds”
again became negotiable, and many new wagers were made. Phileas Fogg’s name
was once more at a premium on ‘Change (Exchange).
His five friends of the Reform Club passed these three days in
a state of feverish (sweating) suspense. Would Phileas Fogg,
whom they had forgotten, reappear before their eyes!
Where was he at this moment? The 17th of December, the
day of James Strand’s arrest, was the seventy sixth since
Phileas Fogg’s departure, and no news of him had been
received. Was he dead? Had he abandoned the effort, or
was he continuing his journey along the route agreed upon? And would he appear on
Saturday, the 21st of December, at a quarter before nine in the evening, on the
threshold of the Reform Club saloon? The anxiety in which, for three days, London
society existed, cannot be described.
Telegrams were sent to America and Asia for news of

Phileas Fogg. Messengers were dispatched to the house
in Saville Row morning and evening. No news. The police
were ignorant what had become of the detective, Fix,
who had so unfortunately followed up a false scent.
Bets increased, nevertheless, in number and value.

Phileas Fogg, like a racehorse, was drawing near his
last turning-point (reaching the end of the journey).
The bonds were quoted (priced), no longer at a
hundred below par, but at twenty, at ten, and at five;
and paralytic old Lord Albemarle bet even in his
favour.
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A great crowd was collected in Pall Mall and the neighbouring

streets on Saturday evening; it seemed like a multitude of
brokers permanently established around the Reform Club.
Circulation (movement of people) was impeded

(delayed), and everywhere disputes, discussions, and
financial transactions were going on. The police had
great difficulty in keeping back the crowd, and as the
hour when Phileas Fogg was due approached, the
excitement rose to its highest pitch.
The five antagonists (enemies) of Phileas Fogg had met

in the great saloon of the club. John Sullivan and
Samuel Fallentin, the bankers, Andrew Stuart, the
engineer, Gauthier Ralph, the director of the Bank of
England, and Thomas Flanagan, the brewer (person
who manufactures beer), one and all waited anxiously.
When the clock indicated twenty minutes past eight (8:20 pm), Andrew Stuart got up,
saying,
“Gentlemen, in twenty minutes the time agreed upon
between Mr. Fogg and ourselves will have expired.”
“What time did the last train arrive from Liverpool?”

asked Thomas Flanagan.
“At twenty-three minutes past seven,” replied

Gauthier Ralph; “and the next does not arrive
till ten minutes after twelve.”
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“Well, gentlemen,” resumed “Wait; don’t let us be too hasty,”

Andrew Stuart, “if Phileas replied Samuel Fallentin. “You
know that Mr. Fogg is very
Fogg had come in the 7:23 train,
he would have got here by this eccentric. His punctuality is well
time. We can, therefore, regard known; he never arrives too soon,
or too late; and I should not be
the bet as won.”
surprised if he appeared before
us at the last minute.”
“Why,” said Andrew Stuart
nervously, “if I should see him, I
should not believe it was he.”
“The fact is,” resumed Thomas Flanagan, “Mr. Fogg’s

project was absurdly foolish. Whatever his punctuality, he
could not prevent the delays which were certain to occur;
and a delay of only two or three days would be fatal to his
tour.”
“Observe, too,” added John Sullivan, “that we have

received no intelligence from him, though there are
telegraphic lines all along is route.”
“He has lost, gentleman,” said Andrew Stuart, “he has a

hundred times lost! 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.”
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At this moment, the hands of the club clock pointed to twenty minutes to
nine (8.40 pm).
“Five minutes more,” said Andrew Stuart.
The five gentlemen looked at each other.

Their anxiety (tension) was becoming
intense (deep); but, not wishing to betray
(trust) it, they readily assented (agreed) to
Mr. Fallentin’s proposal of a rubber (card game).
“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 (8:42 pm).
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 (high pitch) 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 (stopped) their game. They left their cards, and counted the seconds.
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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
(wild sound).
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!”
“Here I am, gentlemen!”
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Chapter XXXVII (37)
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 (8:05
pm) 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.
With his hair in disorder, and without his hat, he ran...
Passepartout went on his errand (task) 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 (8:35 pm). 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
passersby, rushing over the sidewalk like a waterspout (tornadoes).
In three minutes he was in Saville Row again, and staggered (walk) back into Mr. Fogg’s
room.
He could not speak.
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“What is the matter?”
“My master!” gasped (pant)

Passepartout— “marriage—impossible—”
“Impossible?”
“Impossible—for to-morrow.”
“Why so?”
“Because to-morrow—is Sunday!”
“Monday”
“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 (uncontrolled) 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 (run hard) and
overturned (overtook) five carriages, reached the Reform
Club.
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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!
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How was it that a man so exact and fastidious (attentive/careful) 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 (monetary) gain was small. His object
was, however, to be victorious (winner), and not to win money. He divided the one
thousand pounds that remained between Passepartout and the unfortunate Fix, against
whom he cherished (kept) no grudge (complaint). 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 (peaceful) and phlegmatic (calm and cool)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—”
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“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 (knocked) vigorously
(strongly) 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 had
throughout displayed all his marvelous qualities of coolness and exactitude. But what
then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from
this long and weary (tiring) 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?
*******
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4.3 AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS

 ABOUT THE WRITER:

 Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 - 1905) was a French novelist,

 Verne wrote widely popular series of adventure

 Verne is generally considered a major literary author

 Verne has been the second most translated author in the

 CHARACTERS OF THE NOVEL: [MAJOR CHARACTERS]

I] PHILEAS FOGG: [Protagonist] II] JEAN PASSEPARTOUT:

 He took a wager with the member in the  He is humorous yet brave.

 She is an Indian Princess who was rescued by Fogg.

 She later on shares the adventures with Fogg and

 She is extremely grateful for the kindness extended to her.

IV] DETECTIVE FIX:

 He thinks and suspects Fogg to be the robber who robbed the

 He follows Fogg, Passepartout and Aouda around the world.

 He is materialistic- because he follows Fogg as there is a

 CHARACTERS OF THE NOVEL: [MINOR CHARACTERS]

• Sir Francis Cromarty

• The Reform Club Members

• The Parsee Guide

• Colonel Stamp Proctor

• Elder William Hitch

 PLOT OF THE NOVEL:

Around the World in Eighty Days begins at the

We are introduced to Fogg, a very precise

This is the beginning of the entire plot and from then

The main plot is based on Fogg’s travels, while other

The plot moves ahead with Fogg striving

 THEME OF THE NOVEL:

Courage amidst adversities.

The novel is full of adventure and the excitement which

The most important feature of this adventure novel is ‘Time’. It

By the end of the trip, though, he recognizes the importance of

Though he has the opportunity to double his fortune

SYNOPSIS OF THE EXTRACT

As soon as Fogg, Aouda and Passepartout arrive in Liverpool, Fix

The following evening Fogg apologizes to Aouda for being

Passepartout races home, grabs Phileas by the collar,

AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS

Chapter XXXIV (34)

That gentleman was really ruined (destroyed), and that at the

Two hours! Admitting that he was at this moment taking an express

Phileas Fogg was free! He walked to the detective, looked him

Phileas Fogg asked if there was an express train about to leave

Chapter XXXV (35)

After leaving the station, Mr. Fogg gave Passepartout

Knowing that Englishmen governed by a fixed idea sometimes resort to the

He had found a bill from the gas company.

First of all, the worthy fellow had gone up to his

Mr. Fogg called him in the morning, and told him to

He desired Aouda to excuse him (leave him for sometime) from

Passepartout could hold in no longer.

“I blame no one,” returned Phileas Fogg, with perfect

“Madam,” he added, “I can do nothing myself—nothing! I have no