Marco Paul's travels and adventures in the pursuit of knowledge City of New York . ed chairs, one or two handsome tables, and alarge mirror. There was a very elegant barome-ter hanging against the wall, and a timepiece op-posite to it on the other side. There was also alarge painting of a ship at sea, under full sail. Inthis room also there were side doors leading intostate rooms, and the captain opened one of them,saying, This is the one which we marked for MissEdwards. They all went into it. It was a small room,not much larger than a large closet. Oppositethe door were two berths, or places
Marco Paul's travels and adventures in the pursuit of knowledge City of New York . ed chairs, one or two handsome tables, and alarge mirror. There was a very elegant barome-ter hanging against the wall, and a timepiece op-posite to it on the other side. There was also alarge painting of a ship at sea, under full sail. Inthis room also there were side doors leading intostate rooms, and the captain opened one of them,saying, This is the one which we marked for MissEdwards. They all went into it. It was a small room,not much larger than a large closet. Oppositethe door were two berths, or places to sleep in,one aliove the other. There was a bureau forclothes, a washytand, and one or two chairs. Onthe curtains of one of the berths, Miss Edwardssname was pinned up, written upon a paper. Presently they all came out of the state room,and took seats upon the sofas of the ladies cabin. I think you informed me. Captain Jones,said Mr. Edwards, that it is most probable thatyou will get away on Saturday; still I supposethere may be a possibility that you will remainuntil THE LONDON PACKET. 93 Why—yes, replied Captain Jones, thereis a possibility ; but we intend now fally to go onSaturday. If we should not, I shall wait untilMonday. I never sail on Sunday. But then wefully mean to go on Saturday. I think Friday is the regular day, said Yes, replied Captain Jones, so it is ; butwe must take till Saturday. The truth is, we arein hopes that this steamer coming in may possiblygive things a little start. What Captain Jones meant by this was that hehoped that the news which would come by anEnglish steamship, which was then expected,would give business a start, so that the merchantswould be more ready to send out their merchan-dise. For these packet ships are not owned gen-erally by the merchants that own the merchants hire the owners of the ships tocarry the merchandise for them. And so the cap-tain and the owneis of the ships always want toget as
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