The Letter Bag of the Great Western Or Life in a Steamer
The book The Letter Bag of the Great Western Or Life in a Steamer was written by author Haliburton Thomas Chandler Here you can read free online of The Letter Bag of the Great Western Or Life in a Steamer book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Letter Bag of the Great Western Or Life in a Steamer a good or bad book?
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You don't comprehend me, sir. I merely wished to ask you if it were on the high or the low principle. On the high, decidedly, sir; for they charge £43 IO5. For a passage, which is high, very high, indeed. The object, sir, is to exclude low people, although it does not effectually answer even that purpose (and I gave him a significant look). You observe they take no steerage passengers, though it might perhaps be an im- provement if they did (another significant look, which the insignificant lub...ber appears to take). Odi pro- fanum vulgus et arceo (I like that last word, it is so expressive of the cold shoulder) is the very proper motto of the very exclusive Board of Directors at Bristol. I am sorry I have not been so fortunate as to render myself inteUigible, (says my scientific friend, his ire visibly getting the steam up) ; I desired to know if it were on the high pressure or low pressure principle. Oh ! that is quite another thing, sir ; I conceive it is on the low-pressure ; for the lower a thing is pressed, 46 THE LETTER-BAG OF the greater is the compression — do you take?
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