A Voyage of Consolation

The vessel was at that stage of departure when the people who have been turned off are feeling injured that it should have been done so soon, and apparently only the weigh

e reunited as a family as well as we could in connection with uncoiled ropes and ship discipline. Then poppa, with his watch in his hand, exclaimed reproachfully, w

r with narrow red ribbon, which, innocently enough I consider, enhance the

cks. "So we are all going to Europe together this morning! I ca

ss I'd better show you your cabins b

away. That is one of poppa's most comforting characteristics, he would as soon open his bosom to a shot-gun as to a confidence. He asked for details through the telephone merely for bravado. As a matter of fact, if I had begun to send them he would have rung off the conne

l," I said reproachfully, "th

ent in Illinois, and the amount of invective which their feelings require. Poppa doesn't really know sometimes whether he is himself or a shillelagh, but whatever his temporary political capacity he is never ungrateful. He went on to give me the

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mean of me to put poppa to the blus

intend to give a day less than six weeks to it. I'm looking forward to the tranquilising effect of the antique some myself," he added, hedging. "I find these new self-risers that we've undertaken to carry almost more than my temperament can stand. T

t the best heroines never have recourse to such measures now. They are simply obsolete. Except for my literary intention, I should be ashamed to go to Europe at all-under th

ard descends from the lower part of his chin in the long unfettered American manner, without which it is imposs

t, I don't know any continent more popular than Europe with peop

ed, "in connectio

d his hand f

d you intended to ring me in. Of course, I don't mean to imply there is any special prejudi

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words! Pretty big undertakin

to rely upon mo

ed the idea, and he began t

everal of them in the house for years-but I expect it's going to be a question of historical fact pretty often, and momma won't be in it. Not that I want to choke momma off," he continued, "but she wil

er down to the guide

Mr. Murray writes in a vein of pretty lofty sentiment, while Mr. Baedeker is about as interesting as a directory. Now where the r

ght burns all night long in the smoking-cabin, but that is not supposed to indicate that gentlemen are expected to