I Forbid the Banns! — page 91: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XIII. ON A REVELATION. ISS TRAVERS knew that it was a foregone conclu- sion. And so it was. He made no attempt to resist falling in love with her. She made no attempt to resist falling in love with him. The open way in which they fell in love with one another was almost indecent. Miss Travers’ reflections took this sequence as she watched Julian Charlton and Bertha Lancaster daily and nightly on the deck and in the saloon of the Carnarvon Castle. It was outrageous, she felt, that they should make no attempt to conceal from their fellow-passengers that they were in love with one another—nay, they made no attempt to conceal it even from any of the crew. She herself had noticed a quartermaster, who came aft to relieve another at the wheel, put his tongue in his cheek and make a motion with his arms as if he were hugging someone, so soon as he had jerked his thumb in the direction of where Charlton and Bertha were sitting, Mrs. Hardy slumbering placidly in her chair by their side. It was absolutely scandalous, she felt, that such things should be. : She had read accounts of the safety of ships having been imperiled through the evil deeds of their passengers. There was the case of Jonah—perhaps the most prominent on record. They had had a narrow shave aboard that vessel. Then there was the case of Philip Vanderdecken—not quite 81 (CONNIE IOOLKS (E(o) m =