I Forbid the Banns! — page 24: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER III. ON THE CAPTAIN'S PROFANITY. T was evening. The dinner in the saloon of the Car- narvon Castle had been excellent. In several subtle ele- ments it had surpassed even the most remarkable of the previous efforts of a cook who was always trustworthy and who was occasionally inspired. It was generally admitted by the saloon passengers that he had had some moments of inspiration during this day. This is what the cabin passengers thought of him. ‘The second class passengers sneered at him, and occasionally grumbled. ‘The seamen invariably growled at him and occasionally cursed him. The captain was sitting on a deck chair, a pretty little girl on a cushion at his feet, with her arm upon his knee. Her pretty little mother was on a deck chair placed at an acute angle to the captain's. At exactly the same angle on the other side was a Madeira chair in which Mrs. Howard—also a pretty woman, but not of the little type —was sitting. Further round was a camp stool occupied by a girl with very fair hair and large, soft eyes. She was the daughter of a gentleman who, having gracefully failed at the English bar, was made a judge at the Cape. Her name was Lily Joyce. The captain had promised the husband of the pretty little mother of the pretty little girl to look carefully after both mother and daughter on their voyage to England. He had promised the judge to look carefully after the young lady with the fair hair, and he had been told by Major Howard that his wife would look after herself, and that he 14 Gomichbooks (E(0)