a quarter before nine
We arrived twenty-four hours ahead of time , but there are only ten minutes left ! '' Passepartout had seized his master by the collar , and was dragging him along with irresistible force . Phileas Fogg , thus kidnapped , without having time to think , left his house , jumped into a cab , promised a hundred pounds to the cabman , and , having run over two dogs and overturned five carriages , reached the Reform Club . The clock indicated a quarter before nine when he appeared in the great saloon . Phileas Fogg had accomplished the journey round the world in eighty days ! Phileas Fogg had won his wager of twenty thousand pounds ! How was it that a man so exact and fastidious could have made this error of a day ?