The Happy Ending in Less Then Happy Financial Circumstances

Reform Club, London, 1870's

I am even happier the yesterday, if that seems possible. Passepartout, in going to the Reverend's, was informed that the marriage ceremony could not be performed the next day, as tomorrow would be SUNDAY, not Monday as we had before thought. But there was only a half hour until the time appointed to be at the Club. So that worth man rushed home, dragged me into a cab, and rushed me to the Reform Club. Therefore, I won the wager, having completed a tour of the world in 79 days, having gained 24 hours in traveling eastward. In doing the tour I had spent 19 000 pounds out of the twenty thousand I had taken with me, and the remaining thousand I distributed between Passepartout and Detective Fix. So I lost 20 000 pounds and gained Aouda. Small price indeed.


                                                               Phileas Fogg
                                                                   10:09 PM
                                                                   Saturday
                                                                   21st of December, 1872