Arthur O'Leary Author:Charles James Lever Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: "You've put me next the tiller," said one. "I'm over the boiler," screamed another. " I have the pleasure of speaking to Sir Willoughby Steward," said the cap... more »tain, to a tall, gray-headed, soldierlike figure, with a closely-buttoned blue frock. "Sir Willoughby, your berth is No. 8." " Eh! that's the way they come it," whispers a Cockney to his friend. " That 'ere chap gets a berth before us all." " I beg your pardon, sir," says the baronet, mildly; " I took mine three days ago." " Oh, I didn't mean anything," stammers out the other, and sneaks off. " Laura-Mariar! where's Laurar ?" calls out a shrill voice from the aft-cabin. " Here, ma," replies a pretty girl, who is arranging her ringlets at a glass, much to the satisfaction of a young fellow in a braided frock, that stands gazing at her in the mirror with something very like a smile on his lip. There's no mistaking that pair of dark-eyed fellows with aquiline noses and black ill-shaven beards, — Hamburgh or Dutch Jews, dealers in smuggled lace, cigars, and Geneva watches, and occasionally small moneylenders. How they scan the company, as if calculating the profit they might turn them to! The very smile they wear seems to say, "Comme c'est doux de tromper les Chretiens." But, halloa! there was a splash! we are moving, and the river is now more amusing than the passengers. I should like to see the man that ever saw London from the Thames, or any part of it, save the big dome of St. Paul's, the top of the Monument, or the gable of the great black wharf inscribed with " Hodgson's Pale Ale." What a devil of a row they do make ! I thought we were into that fellow. See, here's a wherry actually under our bow. Where is she now ? Are they all lost already ? No, there they go, bobbing up and down, and looking after...« less