The Emily Emmins Papers

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Wells Carolyn. The Emily Emmins Papers

I. A Ticket to Europe

II. Crossing the Atlantic

III “In England – Now!”

IV. Mayfair in the Fair Month of May

V. A Hostess at Home

VI. The Light on Burns’s Brow

VII. Certain Social Uncertainties

VIII. A Sentimental Journey

IX. All in a Garden Fair

X “I Went and Ranged about to Many Churches”

XI. Piccadilly Circus and its Environs

XII. The Game of Going On

XIII. A French Week-End

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The most remarkable effect of a sea-trip is, to my mind, its wonderful influence for amiability. I hadn’t passed Sandy Hook before I felt an affable suavity settling down upon me like a February fog. I am at all times of a contented and peaceful nature, but this lethargic urbanity was a new sensation, and, as I opined it was but the beginning of a series of new sensations, I gave myself up to it with a satisfied feeling that my trip had really begun.

And yet I was haunted by a vague uneasiness that it hadn’t begun right. I had planned to be most methodical on this voyage. I had resolved that when I came aboard I would go first to my stateroom and unpack my steamer trunk, arrange my belongings neatly in their proper portholes and bunkers, find my reserved deck-chair, and attach to it my carefully tagged rug and pillow. Then I meant to take off and pack away my pretty travelling costume, and array myself in my “steamer clothes,” these having been selected with much care and thought in accordance with numerous and conflicting advices.

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“But it won’t matter,” she added cheerfully. “You won’t read, anyhow.”

This reminded me that I had no intention of reading, being there for the purpose of studying my fellow-passengers.

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