24/56 She asked your father to take us cabin places unknown to me." "Did she? I could almost laugh to remember the eagerness with which I doffed my signs of wealth, and put on those of poverty. I sold my watch when I got into Liverpool--yesterday, I believe--but it seems like months ago. And I rigged myself out at a slop-shop with suitable clothes for a steerage passenger. Maggie! you never told me the name of the vessel you were going to sail in!" "I did not know it till I got to Liverpool. |