“In 1872, on Saville Row, in Burlington Gardens, in the same house at number 7, where Sheridan died fifty-eight years ago, lived Phileas Fogg, Esq., a great original, prominent among the members of the London Reform Club, although he himself, it seemed, did not at all strive to attract attention to his person. Following the example of one of the greatest orators of which England is proud, this Phileas Fogg was a mysterious figure: no one knew anything about him, except that he was very gallant and hardly not the most prominent gentleman in high British society..."