In a few moments the baby opened its eyes, then it suddenly sat up and began to cry.

Mr.Fogg used to hate that noise, but now it seemed to him sweeter than music.

Mrs.Fogg was wild with joy.

She took the baby in her arms and kissed and hugged it, and then she said, "What do you think was the matter with him, doctor ?" "Why, your husband says he mesmerized the child," replied the doctor, incautiously letting the secret drop.
Then Mrs.Fogg looked at the culprit as if she wished to assassinate him; but she merely ejaculated, "Monster!" and flew from the room; and Mr.Fogg, as he went down with the physicians, put on an injured look and said, "If that baby wants to holloa now, I'm going to let him holloa, if he holloas the top of his head off." * * * * * It was this offence, according to popular rumor, that brought things to a crisis in Mr.Fogg's family and induced Mrs.Fogg to seek to remove the heavy burden of woe imposed upon her by her husband.

Only a few days later Mr.and Mrs.Fogg knocked at the door of Colonel Coffin's law office, and then filed in, Mrs.Fogg in advance.