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Down below, the Italians, talking, gesticulating, showing their white teeth in flashing, boyish smiles, were being herded docilely on board, while at intervals one or another of the few promenade-deck passengers appeared. The first of these, a shrewd-faced, nervous little man, borrowed an unneeded match of me and remarked that it was cold weather for spring.
Then she said: "Do you ever have business at Southport?" And he said, in a unique manner: "I shall have." Another silence. This time he felt he would marry her. The White Star liner, Titubic, stuck out of the water like a row of houses against the landing-stage. There was a large crowd on her promenade-deck, and a still larger crowd on the landing-stage.
At no time did the sea break over the deck but the water below drove all the people up to the main-deck and to the promenade-deck, and thus we remained for about three hours, when daylight came; but there was a fog so thick that nothing but water could be seen.
You have visited the antiquity mongers whose horrible sign-boards dishonour some of the grandest vistas in the Grand Canal; you have tried the opera and found it very bad; you have bathed at the Lido and found the water flat. You have begun to have a shipboard-feeling to regard the Piazza as an enormous saloon and the Riva degli Schiavoni as a promenade-deck.
And that would be the end of all. Angela May sat in her chair on the promenade-deck of the Adriatic and felt peacefully conscious that she was resting body and brain. The ship was not crowded, for it was spring, and the great tide of travel had turned in the opposite direction toward Europe.
It must have been the second day out that I observed Leontine and Sydney together on the promenade-deck. They seemed to be quite interested in each other, though I felt sure that Leontine was making a play for him. At any rate, Burleigh was jealous. Whatever might be the scheme, it was apparent that the young Englishman was head over heels in love with her. What did it mean?
What more of his views Monty would have expounded I can't say, for a voice yelled from the promenade-deck above us: "You there! What's your rank?" I jumped out of my skin, and Doe out of his, for we thought the voice was addressing us, Monty turned without agitation and looked up at the speaker. It was Major Hardy.
Only the ship was apparently solid, apparently cemented in foundations of concrete. On the starboard side of the promenade-deck, among a hundred other small groups, was a group consisting of Mr and Mrs Cotterill and Ruth and Denry. Nellie stood a few feet apart, Mrs Cotterill was crying. People naturally thought she was crying because of the adieux; but she was not.
Miss Mallory left Captain Bloom, who was pointing out the line of reefs, to join Bedient on the promenade-deck. "I'm surprised and disappointed," she said. "I expected to hear shooting long before this." "It may not be started," he suggested. "And now, Miss Mallory, we'd better not go ashore together.
The promenade-deck was very pleasant in the bright morning sun: and nobody was there except a few gentlemen. Ellen sat down on one of the settees that were ranged along the middle of it, and much pleased at having found herself such a nice place of retreat, she once more took up her interrupted amusement of watching the banks of the river.
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