An English card game that was popular during the 18th and 19th centuries. Whist is Phileas Fogg’s favorite pastime, and he plays it both at the Reform Club in England and with partners he meets on his travels, like Sir Francis Cromarty. He frequently bets money on games “not to win, but for the sake of playing.”
Whist Quotes in Around the World in Eighty Days
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Chapter 1
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Mr. Fogg played, not to win, but for the sake of playing. The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes.
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Chapter 3
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“The world has grown smaller, since a man can now go round it ten times more quickly than a hundred years ago. And that is why the search for this thief will be more likely to succeed.”
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Whist Term Timeline in Around the World in Eighty Days
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Chapter 1
...close relationships and opts to spend every day reading newspapers and betting on games of whist at the Reform, “not to win, but for the sake of playing.”
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Chapter 3
...eats breakfast and reads newspapers until the dinner hour. After his evening meal, he plays whist with his usual partners: Andrew Stuart, John Sullivan, Samuel Fallentin, Thomas Flanagan, and Gauthier Ralph....
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While they play whist, the men discuss a recent robbery of £55,000 from the Bank of England by a...
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Chapter 4
...the way to the train station, Fogg gives the twenty guineas he just won at whist to a beggar woman, a gesture that brings tears to Passepartout’s eyes.
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Chapter 9
...deck, and instead eats four meals per day in the cabin and plays games of whist with the other passengers. Fix continues to strategically gain Passepartout’s trust by buying him drinks...
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Chapter 28
...with Colonel Proctor will throw off Fogg’s schedule, they agree to distract him by playing whist.
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