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at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - 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; nor had his
voice ever resounded in the Court of Chancery, or in the Exchequer,
or the Queen's Bench, or the Ecclesiastical Courts. He certainly
was not a manufacturer; nor was he a merchant or a gentleman
farmer. His name was strange to the scientific and learned
societies, and he never was known to take part in the sage
deliberations of the Royal Institution or the London Institution,
the Artisan's Association, or the Institution of Arts and Sciences.
He belonged, in fact, to none of the numerous societies which swarm
in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of the
Entomologists, founded mainly for the purpose of abolishing
pernicious insects.
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