Around the World in Eighty Days

All right, said Mr. Fogg; and, turning to the others, he continued: "I have a deposit of twenty thousand at Baring''s which I will willingly risk upon it." "Twenty thousand pounds!" cried Sullivan. "Twenty thousand pounds, which you would lose by a single accidental delay!" "The unforeseen does not exist," quietly replied Phileas Fogg. And with that Phileas Fogg was off on one of the most famous a...