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Cigar Tastes Wrong Then And The Mere Sight Of So Many Meat Pies
And So Many German Salads At The Entrance To The Dining Salon Gives
One Acute Displeasure.
By these signs you know that you are on
the verge of being taken down with climate fever, which,
As I set
forth many pages agone, is a malady peculiar to the watery deep,
and by green travelers is frequently mistaken for seasickness,
which indeed it does resemble in certain respects. I may say that
I had one touch of climate fever going over and a succession of
touches coming back.
At such a time, the companionship of others palls on one. It is
well then to retire to the privacy of one's stateroom and recline
awhile. I did a good deal of reclining, coming back; I was not
exactly happy while reclining, but I was happier than I would have
been doing anything else. Besides, as I reclined there on my cosy
bed, a medley of voices would often float in to me through the
half-opened port and I could visualize the owners of those voices
as they sat ranged in steamer chairs, along the deck. I quote:
"You, Raymund! You get down off that rail this minute." ... "My
dear, you just ought to go to mine! He never hesitates a minute
about operating, and he has the loveliest manners in the operating
room. Wait a minute - I'll write his address down for you. Yes,
he is expensive, but very, very thorough." ... "Stew'd, bring me
nozher brand' 'n' sozza." ... "Well, now Mr. - excuse me, I didn't
catch your name? - oh yes, Mr. Blosser; well, Mr. Blosser, if that
isn't the most curious thing! To think of us meeting away out here
in the middle of the ocean and both of us knowing Maxie Hockstein
in Grand Rapids. It only goes to show one thing - this certainly
is a mighty small world." ... "Raymund, did you hear what I said
to you!" ... "Do you really think it is becoming? Thank you for
saying so. That's what my husband always says. He says that white
hair with a youthful face is so attractive, and that's one reason
why I've never touched it up. Touched-up hair is so artificial,
don't you think?" ... "Wasn't the Bay of Naples just perfectly
swell - the water, you know, and the land and the sky and everything,
so beautiful and everything?" ... "You Raymund, come away from
that lifeboat. Why don't you sit down there and behave yourself
and have a nice time watching for whales?" ... "No, ma'am, if
you're askin' me I must say I didn't care so much for that art
gallery stuff - jest a lot of pictures and statues and junk like
that, so far as I noticed. In fact the whole thing - Yurupp itself
- was considerable of a disappointment to me. I didn't run acros't
a single Knights of Pythias Lodge the whole time and I was over
there five months straight hard-runnin'." ... "Really, I think it
must be hereditary; it runs in our family.
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