No doubt they were all practically alike.
"This will do very well," I said, quietly.

"Now how about clothes?
These I wear look rather rough for the new job." "I'll send you the steward; he'll fix you out from the slop-chest.
We're always well supplied." I was glad to see him go and closed the door on him with a sigh of relief.

His eyes seemed to exercise a peculiar influence over me, a snakelike charm, against which I had to constantly battle.

I threw the bundle of charts into the upper bunk, and unscrewed the glass of the port to gain a view without, and a breath of fresh air.

There was nothing to see but a small vista of gray sea, blending into the gray mist, and the waves on this side ran so high I was compelled to close the port to keep out the spray.