Phileas Fogg had won his wager and had made his journey around the world in eighty days. To do this he had employed every means of conveyance steamers railways carriages yachts trading-vessels sledges elephants. The eccentric gentleman had throughout displayed all his marvellous qualities of coolness and exactitude. But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey?
Nothing say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman who strange as it may appear made him the happiest of men!
Truly would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?