Chapter 35 Chapter XXXVII Phileas Fogg Gained Nothing But Happiness From This Voyage Around the World

It's true!It was Phileas Fogg himself. It will probably be recalled that at eight o'clock that afternoon, about twenty-five hours after their return to London, Passepartout was sent by his master to inform the Abbe Samuel Wilson, He came to preside over the wedding that was to take place the next day. Passepartout went happily then.He walked and ran to the priest, but the priest had not returned.Passepartout waited there for at least twenty minutes. After all, it was eight thirty-five when he emerged from the priest's.But how did he get out?His hair was a mess of straw, his hat was gone, and he ran, ran, as fast as no one had ever seen a man run, and he galloped down the pavement like a gust of wind, knocking down so many traffickers. of pedestrians.

It took him only three minutes to reach the house in Savile Street, where he fell headfirst into Mr. Fogg's house, out of breath and speechless. "What's the matter?" asked Mr. Fogg. "My lord..." stammered Passepartout, "marriage...is impossible." "impossible?" "Tomorrow...is impossible." "why?" "Because tomorrow...is Sunday." "Tomorrow is Monday," said Mr. Fogg. "No... today... is Saturday." "Saturday? That's impossible!" "It's Saturday, it's Saturday, that's right!" cried Passepartout; "you've miscalculated by the day, and we're twenty-four hours early... and now we have ten minutes left! . . . "

As Passepartout spoke, he seized his master by the collar, and dragged Mr. Fogg along like mad. Without even thinking about it, Phileas Fogg was dragged out of the room, out the door, jumped into a carriage, promised the coachman a reward of one hundred pounds, and ran over two dogs to death along the way. After crashing five carriages, he arrived at the Improvement Club. When he appeared in the club hall, the big clock was pointing to 8:45... Phileas Fogg circumnavigated the world in eighty days! Phileas Fogg won the £20,000 bet! Now people will ask, how can a man as delicate as he remember the dates wrong?It was supposed to be Friday, December 20th when he arrived in London, only seventy-nine days had passed since he left him, but how could he think it was already Saturday night, December 21st?

The problem is simple, the reason for the error is this: Phileas Fogg "unconsciously" took advantage of twenty-four hours of his journey.This is simply because the direction of his trip is going east all the way. If he goes west instead, he will suffer for twenty-four hours. In fact, Phileas Fogg was always facing the rising sun on his way east, so whenever he crossed a line of longitude in this way, he would see the sunrise four minutes earlier.The whole earth is divided into 360 degrees. If you multiply 360 by four minutes, the result is exactly 24 hours.This is the time of the day that he has unknowingly earned.In other words, while Phileas Fogg, who had been heading east, saw the eightieth sunrise during his journey, his London friends only saw the seventy-ninth.That was why it was Saturday, not Sunday, as Mr. Fogg imagined; and because it was Saturday, his members were waiting for him at the Reform Club.

If Passepartout's great silver watch, which kept London time, could tell the month and day as accurately as it told the time and minutes, they wouldn't have mistaken the date! Phileas Fogg had indeed won £20,000, but he had already spent nearly nineteen thousand on this trip, and from a pecuniary point of view there was only so much left.However, as I said before, this strange gentleman only made the bet to save face, not to get rich.Even the remaining thousand pounds he divided between honest Passepartout and unlucky Fix.Mr. Fogg, of course, held no grudge against the detective.Mr. Fogg, however, made a deduction for the gas which his servant had been burning for nineteen hundred and twenty hours through negligence.Mr. Fogg is quite right to do so.

On this very night, Mr. Fogg still said to Mrs. Aouda in the same calm manner: "Madam, do you now have any other opinion about our marriage?" "Mr. Fogg," replied Mrs. Aouda, "I should have put the question to you. Yesterday you were bankrupt, and now you..." "Madam, please don't say that, this property is yours. If you don't ask me about marriage, my servant will not go to the Abbe Samuel Wilson, and no one will tell me. Got the date wrong, so..." "My dear Fogg..." said the young lady. "My dear Aouda..." Mr Fogg replied.

Needless to say, after forty-eight hours, the wedding ceremony began.Passepartout, full of air and flushed with joy, was Madame Aouda's witness.Doesn't he deserve this honor?Because he had gone through fire and water to save Lady Aouda's life. But before daybreak the next day, Passepartout went and knocked at the door of his master's room. The door opened and the quiet gentleman stepped out. "What's the matter, Passepartout?" "Well, sir, I just remembered..." "Remember what?" "It takes us seventy-eight days to travel around the world."

"True," replied Mr. Fogg, "but then we shall not pass through India; and without India I could not save Lady Aouda; and if I could not save her, she would not be my wife now." It's..." Mr Fogg closed the door softly. That's how Phileas Fogg won the host.He traveled around the world in eighty days!He utilized various means of transportation along the way: ships, trains, horse-drawn carriages, yachts, merchant ships, sleds and elephants.This eccentric gentleman displayed his amazing composure and accuracy on this trip.But what about the result?What had he won in this long journey?What did this trip bring him?

Can it be said that he has gained nothing?Perhaps it can be said that if the beautiful lady Aouda is not counted, although the story is a bit unreal, she has made Mr. Fogg the happiest person. Is it really impossible for people to travel around the world in a shorter time? (End of the book)