Chapter
1 II | Manchester engineer. John Ruby, a Cardiff merchant; and
2 IV | our fellow-passengers, Mr. Ruby, is the type of a vulgar
3 IV | tout-son merite;” but to Mr. Ruby the phrase seems altogether
4 VIII| Falsten, Mr. Kear, nor Mr. Ruby are the men to take it up,
5 X | Falsten, the engineer, and Ruby, the merchant whom I had
6 X | Pooh! pooh!” replied Ruby; “it’s all right; it is
7 X | properly secured,” said Ruby, “tight enough; I have no
8 X | continued to remonstrate, whilst Ruby answered by shrugging his
9 X | involuntary impulse I rushed up to Ruby, and seized him by the shoulder.~“
10 XI | Mr. Kazallon, where is Ruby now?”~“On the poop,” I said.~“
11 XI | then come with me, sir?”~Ruby and Falsten were sitting
12 XI | Curtis walked straight up to Ruby, and asked him whether what
13 XI | Yes, quite true,” said Ruby, complacently, thinking
14 XI | about the facts of the case. Ruby only confirmed what I had
15 XI | late: their effect upon Ruby was electrical. He was paralyzed
16 XI | Curtis endeavoured to silence Ruby’s ravings, whilst I, in
17 XI | further progress; that Mr. Ruby had been unduly excited
18 XI | place. Fortunately, even Ruby himself in the midst of
19 XI | we were exposed through Ruby’s imprudence. Curtis himself
20 XI | the person of the unhappy Ruby, who, quite beside himself,
21 XIII| Curtis reserved the other for Ruby, who, a raving maniac, had
22 XIV | the horror of it all.~Poor Ruby, indeed, is lost and gone,
23 XIV | picrate? perhaps, after all, Ruby had deceived us and there
24 XVI | part of the hold in which Ruby’s luggage had been deposited;
25 XXI | substance with which poor Ruby had so grievously imperilled
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