As Irma turned away, her interest in the steerage increased rather than lessened.
We'll only look over the railing," and Uncle Jim led Irma to a spot where she could look down at the steerage passengers, sitting in the sun on the deck below.
He's been very good, too, to another steerage passenger, a young fellow from Bologna, who is paying his own way back.
Both girls had a strong desire to make a tour of the steerage quarters, under the guidance of the ship's doctor.
He says that he spent more or less time among the steerage passengers coming over, and when he found money did not come in readily for Luisa's family, he decided to make up the whole amount himself.
Did Marion speak with embarrassment, or did Irma imagine this because she had heard of his going to the steerage for lessons?
Looks that way," said the miller, calmly, leaning forward and tossing the steerage ticket into the waste-basket.
His own cap had been blown into the sea and the one he had obtained from the steerage steward was too small for him, so that gray tuft of his was always out like a plume.
There were over a hundred emigrants, and we so crowded the steerage that we were packed as close as in the Durham boats.
Soon after a faint breath of air was felt, the ship got steerage way, and we slowly hauled off the dreaded coast.
It says much for the courage of those steerage passengers that not one of the volunteers hesitated.
Scarce a ship sails that it has not some runaway or other, either in the steerage or in the cabins, and we are often called on to aid the civil authorities on both sides of the water.
Even the landsmen had some feverish suspicions of the truth, and the steerage passengers were already holding a secret conference on the possibility of hiding the pursued in some of the recesses of the ship.
This affair of the steerage passenger, Davis, sir, is probably the cause.
I would give the price of a steerage passage, if Great Britain lay off the Cape of Good Hope for a week or ten days.
But all the steerage had turned out and were crowding the foredecks, and were gazing at a dim strip of land and watching a blinking light.
The throng of Spaniards and Italians in the steerage are silent and strangely impressed.
They had bought second class through to Lima and at the Boca were flung in aft among the half-breeds, a squabbling lot of steerage scum, together with a gang of Chinamen.
Passengers are warned not to go between decks after dark, the steerage hutches and the crew have the freedom of that deck.
The deck steerage paid a shilling, gold, each day.
The lecture itself was highly appreciated, being on a subject which Bob and Joe had already made interesting to the steerage passengers.
Dr Hayward, who had given great satisfaction with his lecture, possessed so much urbanity and power of anecdote and song, that he soon became a general favourite alike with steerage and cabin passengers.
Not that there was a regularsteerage as in ocean-going ships, but still, some thirty people went as deck passengers, and amongst them was to be seen a perfect microcosm of the eastern world.
The woman here has only a steerage ticket,' she says.
From the second cabin, two admitted German reservists were taken as prisoners of war and in the steerage six more were found.
Ships are now made to run with steam instead of with sails, and our forefathers did not come in the steerage because the Mayflower wasn't built that way.
Amongst the steeragepassengers was a Major - in the English army - returning from leave to rejoin his regiment at Colombo.
That same evening, after dinner in the steerage cabin, a German got up and, beginning with some offensive allusions to the British army, proposed the health of General Cronje and the heroic Boers.
He was one of the steerage passengers on board the steamer, and I must say he's mortal like Miss Nita's father.
Our spread of canvas was just sufficient to keepsteerage way on.
He passed through to the place where the steerage or deck passengers are, and then disappeared from August's sight.
When The Queen steamed away from her dock, Paul descended into the steerage and stowed away his outfit in an unoccupied bunk.
Then an uproar that awakened the entire steeragewould take place.
When there was danger of her losing steerage way, her engines would be started again and then shut down as before.
The pride and glory of the whole ship's company, the constant care and dandled darling of the cook, whose duty it was to keep it polished like a teapot; and it was an object of distant admiration to the steerage passengers.
Then the cook furnished him with a little tin pot and pan; and the steward made him a present of a pewter tea-spoon; and a steerage passenger gave him a jack knife.
During the frequent hard blows we experienced, the hatchways on the steerage were, at intervals, hermetically closed; sealing down in their noisome den, those scores of human beings.
But it turned out that this second cabin was comprised in the after part of the steerage itself, with nothing intervening but a name.
The steerage passengers almost neighed with delight, like horses brought back to spring pastures; and every eye and ear in the Highlander was full of the glad sights and sounds of the shore.
Only a very few of the steerage passengers, however, could afford to pay the high price the watermen demanded for carrying them ashore; so most of them remained with us till morning.
It now remains to speak of thesteerage passengers.
Horrible as the sights of the steerage now were, the cabin, perhaps, presented a scene equally despairing.
The ship rolled into Queenstown one bright morning, and Ivan and his nine hundred steerage companions crowded the for'ard deck.
I may add that I'm not accustomed to dictation on behalf of a steerage passenger.
But what was the trouble when those steeragepeople came on board?
One or two of the steerage exchanged when they saw their quarters, for which I don't blame them, and they've filled every room right up.
Wyllard went down to the steerage every now and then, and Agatha, who contrived to keep on her feet, not infrequently accompanied him.
A little light came down the hatchway, and a smoky lamp or two swung above her head, but half the steerage deck was wrapped in shadow, and out of it there rose a many-voiced complaining.
I sat upon the steerage ladder, and am afraid I cheered the combatants on.
Down there," said Wyllard, pointing to the black opening in the fore-hatch that led to the steerage quarters.
Though there were not enough first-class cabins for all the women and children found in the third, the committee of wealthy men went down every day and saw that the steerage was kept as clean as possible.
There were those who said that they consented to go steerage because they thought steerage was fixed up like first cabin.
She begged the purser to try and find three berths for her and two of her colleagues in either the first or second cabin, and asked if he in the meantime would see that the steerage was cleaned up and made a little more comfortable.
I wonder would his soul have been greatly vexed had he accompanied me the first evening out, as I inspected the steerage while they were at supper?
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