Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such ahearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
I launched out in search of a vegetarian restaurant.[…]I would trot ten or twelve miles each day, go into a cheap restaurant and eat my fill of bread, but would never be satisfied. During these wanderings I once hit on a vegetarian restaurant in Farringdon Street. The sight of it filled me with the same joy that a child feels on getting a thing after its own heart. Before I entered I noticed books for sale exhibited under a glass window near the door. I saw among them Salt'sPlea for Vegetarianism. This I purchased for a shilling and went straight to the dining room. This was my firsthearty meal since my arrival in England.
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“Ay, ay,” muttered the chief mate, as they rolled out of then-boats and swaggered on deck, “it’s your turn now, but it will be mine before long. Yaw about while you may, myhearties, I’ll do the yawing after the anchor’s up.”
