Round the World in Eighty Days. Jules Verne
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Название: Round the World in Eighty Days
Автор: Jules Verne
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 4057664610287
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Jules Verne
Round the World in Eighty Days
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4057664610287
Table of Contents
THE. HONOURABLE WILLIAM BATULCAR'S TROUPE. OF. JAPANESE ACROBATS.
CHAPTER I.
In which Phileas Fogg and Passe-partout accept, relatively, the positions of Master and Servant.
In the year of grace One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, the house in which Sheridan died in 1816—viz. No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens—was occupied by Phileas Fogg, Esq., one of the most eccentric members of the Reform Club, though it always appeared as if he were very anxious to avoid remark. Phileas had succeeded to the house of one of England's greatest orators, but, unlike his predecessor, no one knew anything of Fogg, who was impenetrable, though a brave man and moving in the best society. Some people declared that he resembled Byron—merely in appearance, for he was irreproachable in tone—but still a Byron with whiskers and moustache: an impassible Byron, who might live a thousand years and not get old.
A thorough Briton was Phileas Fogg, though perhaps not a Londoner. He was never seen on the Stock Exchange, nor at the Bank of England, nor at any of the great City houses. No vessel with a cargo consigned to Phileas Fogg ever entered the port of London. He held no Government appointment. He had never been entered at any of the Inns of Court. He had never pleaded at the Chancery Bar, СКАЧАТЬ