I. In which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout Accept Each Other, The One as Master, The Other as Man

Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention； an enigmatical personage, about whom little was known, except that he was a polished man of the world. People said that he resembled Byron--at least that his head was Byronic； but he was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live on a thousand years without growing old.

Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner. He was never seen on ‘Change, nor at the Bank, nor in the counting-rooms of the "City"； no ships ever came into London docks of which he was the owner； he had no public employment； he had never been entered at any of the Inns of Court, either at the Temple, or Lincoln‘s Inn, or Gray‘s Inn；

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