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“Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!”
- Date
- 1873
- English wording
- George Makepeace Towle — Translator · from French
Meaning of “Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a…”
The narrator undercuts a purely material accounting of Fogg’s journey by suggesting that the relationship he found matters more than the wager or possessions he brought home.
Where does it come from?
Around the World in Eighty Days, final chapter, Project Gutenberg #103, in the represented public-domain English translation. This is the narrator’s comic-romantic conclusion after Phileas Fogg completes the journey; the English wording is translation-specific.