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...probably the only human being of my sex aboard the Berengaria without any idea that the Prince of Wales was to be a fellow passenger. As a matter of fact, my aunt, and I, too, did everything possible to avoid taking the ship, because we crossed on her last Summer and wanted to go home by the Majestic. But we could not get decent accommodations on the Majestic, and at the last minute decided to go on the Berengaria...
...occasion sternly repulsed. The lady's husband is jealous. One night he finds a masculine slipper, not his own, in her room. Othello-like, he rashly accuses her of infidelity. To give adequate evidence of her honor, she throws herself into the river, but is fished out and hauled aboard a passing barge. It belongs to none other than the Emperor himself, on a joy ride with the Empress. The heroine tells her tale; the Emperor persuades her husband to believe in her honesty; all ends happily...
...cold grey sea. Naval scouts wirelessed them that the eastern harbors of Greenland were jammed with ice-floes, that their next hop would have to be 825 miles, to Ivigtut on a southerly Greenland cape. That meant they would need to carry extra fuel. Hoisting spare gasoline tankards aboard, the pilots started their engines, sought to take off. But the tankards were too heavy. The planes could not rise. Exasperated, the pilots tossed away every nonessential ounce, repaired minor breakage occasioned by their false starts, shot off hazardously. After 10 hours and 19 minutes in the air-fortunately not tempestuous...
...earnest desire, his father secured him a berth on a French collier, sailing from Marseilles. From then until 1895 he lived upon the sea. At first, he served on French vessels; later, aboard English ships. He rose through all the grades of seamanship? from man 'before the mast to master. There was no sea that did not know him. Not infrequently, health failed him for a time. One of these occasions was when he made his only visit to the Congo, the land which had first inspired his wanderings. In 1884, he became an English subject and in the same...
...that he began to write. With the choice of several languages ? French, German, Russian, Polish?he elected to write in English, which he preferred as a medium of expression. It was four years later still before he showed his manuscript to anyone. On a voyage to Australia aboard the Torrens, he had, as passenger, a Cambridge man. Conrad asked him: "Would it bore you very much reading a manuscript in a handwriting like mine...