I Forbid the Banns! — page 34: what you’re looking at

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24 ‘“T FORBID THE BANNS!” injury done to the chief engineer’s forehead comprised the entire list of casualities due to the accident. The explanation satisfied all the passengers except two. The first was a gentleman who had tuned the piano, the second was a gentleman who had repaired a_ sewing machine a lady had aboard, which had failed to work as it should. It was not to be expected that two such mechan- ical experts would be satisfied with an explanation that was not fundamentally technical. They shook their heads and whispered together every evening after dinner; and they hoped that all aboard would gather that, though they refrained from bringing against the captain any direct charge of deceiving the passengers, still, if it came to a Board of Trade inquiry, they They continued shaking their heads. It was only on the second morning after the accident that the island of St. Helena came in sight of the ship’s company of the Carnarvon Castle; but owing to the fact that the steamer was going only at half speed, several hours had passed before the sound of the heavy plunge of the waves along the base of the great cliffs that make the island an ideal prison for a person whose aspirations take the form of the conquest of Europe, was heard. The vessel steamed within a biscuit-throw of the southern cliffs. They are not much to look at; but these cliffs can never be approached without interest, except by such persons as are altogether wanting in imagination. The sound of a bugle rang out from one of the forts under which the steamer was passing, and the figures of a few saldiers were seen on the roadway cut in the face of the cliffs. On a deck chair on the steamer sat a youth who, at the first mention of the name of St. Helena, had unearthed from his traveling library a volume of Byron. He was CORNIECLIOOKS (26)