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sign-painter, on every state-room door; she glittered with no end of
prism-fringed chandeliers; the clerk's office was elegant, the bar was
marvellous, and the bar-keeper had been barbered and upholstered at

*A SUMPTUOUS TEMPLE.'
incredible cost. The boiler deck (i.e. the
second story of the boat, so to speak) was
as spacious as a church, it seemed to me;
so with the forecastle; and there was no pitiful handful of deck-
hands, firemen, and roust-abouts down there, but a whole battalion
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