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khushalee
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College - Senior

In Around the World in Eighty Days, Mr. Fogg used to leave the house for the club at...

 

(a) twelve.

(b) eleven.

(c) half past eleven.

(d) half past twelve.

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Posted by khushalee on Monday March 9, 2009 at 3:07 AM and tagged with characters, details, mr. fogg.

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  1. dymatsuoka

    eNotes Editor

    Phileas Fogg used to leave the house for the club at (c) half past eleven.

    Phileas Fogg, a member of the Reform Club, was quite an eccentric gentleman who was himself and who required all those around him to be "almost superhumanly prompt and regular".  Known to be "the least communicative of men", his daily habits were nonetheless "quite open to observation...(and) whatever he did was...exactly the same thing that he had always done before".  Mr. Fogg had "a complicated clock which indicated the hours, the minutes, the seconds, the days, the months, and the years"; he watched this instrument closely and was always impeccably timely in performing his daily routine.  Thus it was that every day, "at exactly half-past eleven, Mr. Fogg would, according to his daily habit, quit Savile Row and repair to the Reform" (Chapter 1).

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    Posted by dymatsuoka on Wednesday May 27, 2009 at 12:38 PM