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FOGG HAS GAINED NOTHING
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The eccentric gentleman had displayed in this affair his wonderful qualities of coolness and exactness.
But what then? What had he gained by leaving home? what had be brought back from his journey?
Nothing, do you say? Nothing, perhaps, but a charming woman, who—improbable as it may appear—made him the happiest of men!
Truly, would you not, for less than that, make the tour of the world?
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