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Neptune," offered Bill by way of a gentle reminder. So far the new members of the Dewey's crew had been unaffected by the terrors of seasickness. Bill's remark drove the import of it home pretty hard. "I hope, if we are going to get it," interjected Ted philosophically, "we get it soon and get over with it."
The captain had repented him of his magnanimity before the lights of Honolulu faded out astern. The General began to realize that he had been made a cat's-paw of and, his amour propre being wounded, he had essayed for a day or two majestic dignity of mien that became comical when complicated with the qualms of seasickness.
"I do, for the present," Cora answered, though she instinctively trembled, for that voice, too, sounded like a long-forgotten dream. What strange spell was this which possessed her? The woman asked: "Can you direct me to a house of public entertainment?" "Come with me." Cora knew that the lady had suffered with seasickness, and was anxious to reach land.
"I was thrown by the sudden lurch of the ship; but it will soon be over." "I trust so," groaned the seasick man by the hencoop. "But the sea runs high," the old man said, "let us go in." John Stevens, who had partially recovered from his seasickness, went into the cabin with the stranger.
"I shall never yield to anything so undignified as seasickness, let me tell you that," retorted Xanthippe. "Furthermore, the proverb is not as the lady has quoted it. 'People who live in glass houses should not throw stones' is the proper version." "I was not quoting," returned Mrs. Noah, calmly.
The salt sea air blowing vigorously across the deck heightened his sense of emancipation and convalescence and refreshed him to his inner being. Men and women lay stretched out on steamer chairs with that green expression of profound indifference which marks the dreaded seasickness.
"She had the kind of pluck that Stevenson particularly admired. He was best when he was at sea, and although Mrs. Stevenson was a poor sailor and often suffered greatly from seasickness, she accompanied him on all his wanderings in the South Seas and on rougher waters, with the greatest spirit.
But I fear that they are poor sailors, and can hardly be persuaded to venture a trip in an air-ship." "I will see that they do not suffer from seasickness," said the Doctor. "Prevail upon them to come if possible, for I know you will never regret it. Now shall we remain here, or meet you at the globe?" "Remain here, please, and I will return with all possible expedition."
He would have a good long evening to write up his journal, which he said was getting rather behindhand. The water, too, would be more likely to be smooth in the night, so that there would be less danger of seasickness.
If I see the use, as I was saying, of making a rumpus about the time when a man changes his shirt; whether it be this week, or next week, or, for that matter, the week after, provided it be bad weather. "I have indeed thought it somewhat troublesome to myself, at times; and it is in a striking degree vexatious to the spirit, especially when the body has been suffering under seasickness."
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