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Updated: June 26, 2025
"She was in the first-cabin," said Jimmy. Mifflin clutched his forehead. "Wait!" he cried. "This reminds me of something something in Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet? No. I've got it Pyramus and Thisbe." "I don't see the slightest resemblance." "Read your 'Midsummer Night's Dream. 'Pyramus and Thisbe, says the story, 'did talk through the chink of a wall," quoted Mifflin. "We didn't."
If the worst came to the worst you could have lent him money to pay the difference, and got him into the first-cabin." "I could have taken that six-hundred-dollar room for him," said March, "and then he could have eaten with the swells."
At seven he had gone to dinner, leaving his stateroom door open, as was his habit a not unusual one with first-cabin passengers on long voyages and his flannels swinging from hooks in the wall. About eight, discovering his oversight through the absence of his cigarette-case, he had hurried back to the stateroom to discover that he had been curiously robbed.
She had heard the talk about the separation of the steerage passengers from the first-cabin passengers, before they landed, and this gave birth to painfully defined convictions that the dream, which, almost without her knowledge, had sprung into being in her heart, must now abruptly end. She would never see her champion again! The thought led on to others, equally disturbing.
The next morning he was up before Major Eltwin got out, and found the second-cabin passengers free of the first-cabin promenade at an hour when their superiors were not using it.
Most of the first-cabin passengers, she discovered, were from Chilicothe, Ohio, or similar metropoli of the middle west, and as ignorant as she of what was before them. But when they sighted the green shores of Normandy, her enthusiasm revived at a bound.
The passengers there danced to its music; they sang to it and laughed to it unabashed under the eyes of the first-cabin witnesses clustered along the rail above the pit where they took their rude pleasures. With March it came to his spending many hours of each long, swift day in his berth with a book under the convenient electric light.
If the worst came to the worst you could have lent him money to pay the difference, and got him into the first-cabin." "I could have taken that six-hundred-dollar room for him," said March, "and then he could have eaten with the swells."
An instant later she saw that when he turned back from the rough, unpainted gang-plank to the steerage-deck to the more exclusive bridge, railed, hung with canvas at the sides and carpeted with red, which led to the first-cabin quarters, a lady seized his arm with a proprietary grasp and spoke a little crossly to him because he had delayed to do this tiny service for the pair of steerage passengers.
There were eighty-one first-cabin passengers, one hundred and nineteen in the second cabin, for the two had not been consolidated on the Doraine as was the case with the harried trans-Atlantic liners, and approximately three hundred and fifty in the steerage. The first and second cabin lists represented many races, South Americans predominating.
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