Вокруг света за 80 дней / Around the World in Eighty Days

Fogg; and continued: “I have a deposit of twenty thousand at Baring’s[40 - at Baring’s – в банке братьев Бэринг] which I will willingly risk upon it.”

“Twenty thousand pounds!” cried Sullivan. “Twenty thousand pounds, which you will lose by a single accidental delay!”

“No,” quietly replied Phileas Fogg.

“But, Mr. Fogg, in order not to exceed it, you must jump from the trains upon the steamers, and from the steamers upon the trains again – very fast.”

“I will jump.

“You are joking.”

“A true Englishman doesn’t joke when he is talking about serious things,” replied Phileas Fogg, solemnly. “I will bet twenty thousand pounds against anyone who wants me to make the tour of the world in eighty days or less; in nineteen hundred and twenty hours, or a hundred and fifteen thousand two hundred minutes. Do you accept?”

“We accept,” replied Stuart, Fallentin, Sullivan, Flanagan, and Ralph.

“Good,” said Mr.

“Tonight?” asked Stuart.

“Tonight,” returned Phileas Fogg.

He took out and consulted a pocket calender, and added,

“As today is Wednesday, the 2nd of October, I shall be in London in this very room of the Reform Club, on Saturday, the 21st of December, at a quarter before nine p.m.; or else the twenty thousand pounds will belong to you, gentlemen. Here is a cheque.

Chapter IV

Phileas Fogg won twenty guineas at whist and left the Reform Club at twenty-five minutes past seven. Mr. Fogg entered his bedroom, and called out, “Passepartout!”

Passepartout did not reply.

“Passepartout!” repeated Mr. Fogg.

Passepartout appeared.

“I called you twice,” observed his master.

“But it is not midnight,” responded the other.

“I know it; I don’t blame you. We start for Dover and Calais in ten minutes.

A puzzled grin overspread Passepartout’s round face. He did not comprehend his master.

“Monsieur will leave home?”

“Yes,” returned Phileas Fogg. “We will go round the world.”

Passepartout opened wide his eyes, raised his eyebrows, held up his hands. He was stupefied.

“Round the world!” he murmured.

“In eighty days,” responded Mr. Fogg. “So no time to lose.”

“But the baggage?” gasped Passepartout.