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Phileas Fogg avait donc gagné les vingt mille livres. Mais comme il en avait dépensé en route environ dix-neuf mille, le résultat pécuniaire était médiocre.

On n'est pas Américain sans que la vue de soixante mille dollars vous cause une certaine émotion.

I am no kind of american of any stripe or star, but being offered sixity thpusand dollars would give me a certain emotion too, and the american in question is a welshman from Cardiff, but it is nice to see the prejudice of Americans as obsessed by money to go alongside the gun and shooting mania!

Havi g mussed the mail boat to Liverpool by 45 minutes our hero finds a ship due to sail crom New York to Bordeaux ( close enough, I suppose). Luckily the Captain's surname is "Speedy", so they are sure to make good time