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Nautilus

CHAPTER VIII
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CHAPTER VIII.
IN THE NIGHT.
The evening had been peaceful, all beauty and silence; but not so the night for the boy John.

Something was the matter; he could not sleep.
The bunk in the little cabin was comfortable enough for anyone, but to him it was a couch for an emperor.

He speculated on the probability of George the Third's having had anything like so luxurious a bed, and rejected the thought as absurd.

There were no lumps in the mattress, neither any holes through which sharp fingers of straw came out and scratched him.

The red curtains at the sides could be drawn at will, and, drawing them, he found himself in a little world of his own, warm and still and red.


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