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It was a three-mast ship of about five or six hundred tons Here opened the pit containing the machinery of the paddle-wheels Of these six masts, supported by shrouds and metallic back-stays, the second Near me stood a traveller, who frequently shrugged his shoulders impatiently We had no doubt as to the identity of the young woman; it was Ellen With what force must these wooden paddles strike the waves which are now At six oclock next morning, after passing a sleepless night On the spacious mastheads of the second and third masts a band of soldiers After having left the Doctor, I spent the rest of the day with Fabian; In this position the deck of the tender was only on a level with the load Everything was finished by evening; not a trace of mud was visible on the For five days operations continued with distracting activity A black mire that British mud which is so rarely absent from the pavement The steersman standing on the bridge between the signal apparatus of the The next day I went down towards the basins which form a double line of I will venture to say he was there more out of curiosity than anything What did he see in this liquid mirror, which gave scope to the most capricious What were we against the husband, the master? Nothing After each verse the congregation murmured the one following; the shrill Soon we came in sight of Queenstown, a small calling-place The lines of the Great Eastern are very elongated; her straight stem is He was a thin, nervous little man, with quick, restless eyes: a physiognomist The four corpses, enveloped in coverings, were let down, and placed on Then, after having crossed a small triangular space at the bows There was a piercing wind, and about ten oclock the deck was powdered by Beside the Great Eastern, these three-mast ships looked like barges; their It was a Canadian, the Honourable MacAlpine, who undertook the management I saw an object moving for several moments at the bows, but it turned out It would have been well if the service had concluded with the reading; The 25th still saw the deck strewn with all kinds of tools To weigh anchor under these circumstances required considerable exertion A few of the more fearless stretched themselves on the sofas At last I reached the stern of the steam-ship, and the place I had already One would have taken her for a small island, hardly discernible in the The Great Eastern drew nearer, and, passing round, gave notice of her presence The tender immediately sheered off, and the sailors went to the lows But special arrangements were necessary for storing away the cable in the The atmosphere was grey, and birds flew screeching through the damp mists