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      Was Phileas Fogg rich? Undoubtedly.But those who knew him best could notimagine how he had made his fortune,

      and Mr Fogg was the last person towhom to apply for the information. Hewas not lavish, nor, on the contrary,avaricious; for whenever he knew thatmoney was needed for a noble, useful,or benevolent purpose, he supplied itquietly and sometimes anonymously. Hewas, in short, the least communicativeof men. He talked very little and seemedall the more mysterious for his taciturnmanner. His daily habits were quite opento observation; but whatever he did wasso exactly the same thing that he hadalways done before, that the wits of thecurious were fairly puzzled.