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They had the funny, regretful glances, intonations, nods of men who had

seen other, better times What difference it could have made to the

bo'sun and the carpenter Powell could not very well understand Yet

these two pulled long faces and even gave hostile glances to the poop

The cook and the steward ht have been more directly concerned But

the steward used to reives no extra trouble,'

with scrupulous fairness of the reat sense of his personal worth which made his speeches

guarded The cook, a neat man with fair side whiskers, who had been only

three years in the ship, seemed the least concerned He was even known

to have inquired once or twice as to the success of some of his dishes

with the captain's wife This was considered a sort of disloyal falling

away fro

The mate's annoyance was yet the easiest to understand As he let it out

to Powell before the first week of the passage was over: 'You can't

expectchucked out of the saloon as if I

weren't good enough to sit down to meat with that wo the captain He isn't a

yet to

understand such matters'

Some considerable tirieved sort, he enlarged a littleto understand these things I don't say you haven't plenty of

sense You are doing very well here Jolly sight better than I

expected, though I liked your looks froht, under a velvety, bespangled sky; a

great