Note: Translated by Jacqueline & Robert Baldick. This translation begins: "In 1872 No. 7 Savile Row, Burlington Gardens—the house in which Sheridan died in 1816—was occupied by Phileas Fogg, Esq. He belonged to the Reform Club of London, and although he seemed to take care never to do anything which might attract attention, he was one of its strangest and most conspicuous members."