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[[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] the second cabin - the girl who got on the train with me at the last minute being the first best - at least until recently.

On the first morning when I floundered on deck (for I did so, of course, in spite of the addled condition of everything inside and out) I saw a very glorious ocean, quite rough, and a most forlorn array of passengers. We had left behind the large roadstead of Cherburg (formed, as it seemed in the twilight,