. Around the world in eighty days. orld in onlyseventy-eight days. No doubt, returned Mr. Fogg, by not crossing if I had not crossed India, I should not have savedAouda ; she would not have been my wife, and— Mr. Fogg quietly shut thedoor. Phileas Fogg had won his wager, and had made his journeyaround the world in eighty days. To do this, he had em-ployed every means of conveyance—steamers, railways,carriages, yachts, trading-vessels, sledges, elephants. Theeccentric gentleman had throughout displayed all his mar-vellous qualities of coolness and exactitude. But What had h
. Around the world in eighty days. orld in onlyseventy-eight days. No doubt, returned Mr. Fogg, by not crossing if I had not crossed India, I should not have savedAouda ; she would not have been my wife, and— Mr. Fogg quietly shut thedoor. Phileas Fogg had won his wager, and had made his journeyaround the world in eighty days. To do this, he had em-ployed every means of conveyance—steamers, railways,carriages, yachts, trading-vessels, sledges, elephants. Theeccentric gentleman had throughout displayed all his mar-vellous qualities of coolness and exactitude. But What had he really gained by all this trouble ?What had he brought back from this long and wearyjourney ? AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS. 315 Nothing, say you ? Perhaps so ; nothing but a charmingwoman, who, strange as it may appear, made him thehappiest of men ! Truly, would you not for less than that make the touraround the world ? utiNTRAL CIRCULATION CHILDRENS ROOM THE END. GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS, ST. JOHNS SQUARE,
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