Jules Verne

Certainly a Government might possess such a destructive machine.

19 Königstrasse, one of the oldest streets in the oldest portion of the city of Hamburg.

young Virlandaise of seventeen, Martha, and myself. As his nephew and an orphan, I became his laboratory assistant.

which was al­ways flush.

coun­ten­ance

He was not lav­ish, nor, on the con­trary, av­ar­i­cious; for, whenever he knew that money was needed for a noble,

his ta­cit­urn man­ner

ex­press­ive of the pas­sions.

He began to ask him­self if this bet that Mr. Fogg talked about was not really in good earn­est, and whether his fate was not in truth for­cing him, des­pite his love of re­pose, around the world in eighty days!

Sir Fran­cis cor­rec­ted Passep­ar­tout’s time, whereupon the lat­ter made the same re­mark that he had done to Fix; and upon the gen­eral in­sist­ing that the watch should be reg­u­lated in each new me­ridian, since he was con­stantly go­ing east­ward, that is in the face of the sun, and there­fore the days were shorter by four minutes for each de­gree gone over, Passep­ar­tout ob­stin­ately re­fused to al­ter his watch, which he kept at Lon­don time.