Part 2 (1/2)
”When?”
”At once Only I warn you that I shall do it at your expense
”It's absurd!” cried Stuart, as beginning to be annoyed at the persistency of his friend ”Coain, then,” said Phileas Fogg ”There's a false deal”
Stuart took up the pack with a feverish hand Then he suddenly put the,” said he, ”it shall be so I ager the four thousand on it”
”Calm yourself, my dear Stuart,” said Fallentin ”It's only a joke”
”When I say I'll wager,” returned Stuart, ”Ito the others, he continued: ”I have a deposit of twenty thousand at Baring's which I illingly 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
”But, Mr Fogg, eighty days are only the estimate of the least possible time in which the journey can be ”
”But, in order not to exceed it, you must jump mathematically from the trains upon the steaain”
”I will julish as a wager,” replied Phileas Fogg, soleainst anyone ishes that I will hty days or less; in nineteen hundred and twenty hours, or a hundred and fifteen thousand two hundred minutes Do you accept?”
”We accept,” replied Messrs Stuart, Fallentin, Sullivan, Flanagan and Ralph, after consulting each other
”Good,” said Mr Fogg ”The train leaves for Dover at a quarter before nine I will take it”
”This very evening?” asked Stuart