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Not
until
she
was
within
fifteen
feet
of
the
Titanic
,
when
a
collision
seemed
imminent
,
did
the
ever-present
tugs
lay
hold
of
her
and
haul
her
back
to
captivity
.
Even
to
the
most
experienced
traveller
the
first
few
hours
on
a
new
ship
are
very
confusing
;
in
the
case
of
a
ship
like
this
,
containing
the
population
of
a
village
,
they
are
bewildering
.
So
the
eight
hours
spent
by
the
Titanic
in
crossing
from
Southampton
to
Cherbourg
would
be
spent
by
most
of
her
passengers
in
taking
their
bearings
,
trying
to
find
their
way
about
and
looking
into
all
the
wonders
of
which
the
voyage
made
them
free
.
There
were
luxuries
enough
in
the
second
class
,
and
comforts
enough
in
the
third
to
make
the
ship
a
wonder
on
that
account
alone
;
but
it
was
the
first-class
passengers
,
used
as
they
were
to
all
the
extravagant
luxuries
of
modern
civilized
life
,
on
whom
the
discoveries
of
that
first
day
of
sun
and
wind
in
the
Channel
must
have
come
with
the
greatest
surprise
.
They
had
heard
the
ship
described
as
a
floating
hotel
;
but
as
they
began
to
explore
her
they
must
have
found
that
she
contained
resources
of
a
perfection
unattained
by
any
hotel
,
and
luxuries
of
a
kind
unknown
in
palaces
.
The
beauties
of
French
chateaux
and
of
English
country-houses
of
the
great
period
had
been
dexterously
combined
with
that
supreme
form
of
comfort
which
the
modern
English
and
Americans
have
raised
to
the
dignity
of
a
fine
art
.
Such
a
palace
as
a
great
artist
,
a
great
epicure
,
a
great
poet
and
the
most
spoilt
and
pampered
woman
in
the
world
might
have
conjured
up
from
their
imagination
in
an
idle
hour
was
here
materialized
and
set
,
not
in
a
fixed
landscape
of
park
and
woodland
,
but
on
the
dustless
road
of
the
sea
,
with
the
sunshine
of
an
English
April
pouring
in
on
every
side
,
and
the
fresh
salt
airs
of
the
Channel
filling
every
corner
with
tonic
oxygen
.
Catalogues
of
marvels
and
mere
descriptions
of
wonders
are
tiresome
reading
,
and
produce
little
effect
on
the
mind
;
yet
if
we
are
to
realize
the
full
significance
of
this
story
of
the
Titanic
,
we
must
begin
as
her
passengers
began
,
with
an
impression
of
the
lavish
luxury
and
beauty
which
was
the
setting
of
life
on
board
.
And
we
can
do
no
better
than
follow
in
imagination
the
footsteps
of
one
ideal
voyager
as
he
must
have
discovered
,
piece
by
piece
,
the
wonders
of
this
floating
pleasure
house
.
If
he
was
a
wise
traveller
he
would
have
climbed
to
the
highest
point
available
as
the
ship
passed
down
the
Solent
,
and
that
would
be
the
boat-deck
,
which
was
afterwards
to
be
the
stage
of
so
tragic
a
drama
.
At
the
forward
end
of
it
was
the
bridge
that
sacred
area
paved
with
snow-white
gratings
and
furnished
with
many
brightly-polished
instruments
.
Here
were
telephones
to
all
the
vital
parts
of
the
ship
,
telegraphs
to
the
engine
room
and
to
the
fo
'
c
's
tle
head
and
after-bridge
;
revolving
switches
for
closing
the
water-tight
doors
in
case
of
emergency
;
speaking-tubes
,
electric
switches
for
operating
the
foghorns
and
sirens
all
the
nerves
,
in
fact
,
necessary
to
convey
impulses
from
this
brain
of
the
ship
to
her
various
members
.
Behind
the
bridge
on
either
side
were
the
doors
leading
to
the
officers
'
quarters
;
behind
them
again
,
the
Marconi
room
a
mysterious
temple
full
of
glittering
machines
of
brass
,
vulcanite
,
glass
,
and
platinum
,
with
straggling
wires
and
rows
of
switches
and
fuse
boxes
,
and
a
high
priest
,
young
,
clean-shaven
,
alert
and
intelligent
,
sitting
with
a
telephone
cap
over
his
head
,
sending
out
or
receiving
the
whispers
of
the
ether
.
Behind
this
opened
the
grand
staircase
,
an
imposing
sweep
of
decoration
in
the
Early
English
style
,
with
plain
and
solid
panelling
relieved
here
and
there
with
lovely
specimens
of
deep
and
elaborate
carving
in
the
manner
of
Grinling
Gibbons
;
the
work
of
the
two
greatest
wood-carvers
in
England
.
Aft
of
this
again
the
white
pathway
of
the
deck
led
by
the
doors
and
windows
of
the
gymnasium
,
where
the
athletes
might
keep
in
fine
condition
;
and
beyond
that
the
white
roof
above
ended
and
the
rest
was
deck-space
open
to
the
sun
and
the
air
,
and
perhaps
also
to
the
smoke
and
smuts
of
the
four
vast
funnels
that
towered
in
buff
and
black
into
the
sky
each
so
vast
that
it
would
have
served
as
a
tunnel
for
a
railway
train
.
But
the
ship
has
gathered
way
,
and
is
sliding
along
past
the
Needles
,
where
the
little
white
lighthouse
looks
so
paltry
beside
the
towering
cliff
.
The
Channel
air
is
keen
,
and
the
bugles
are
sounding
for
lunch
;
and
our
traveller
goes
down
the
staircase
,
noticing
perhaps
,
as
he
passes
,
the
great
clock
with
its
figures
which
symbolize
Honour
and
Glory
crowning
Time
.
Honour
and
Glory
must
have
felt
just
a
little
restive
as
,
having
crowned
one
o'clock
,
they
looked
down
from
Time
upon
the
throng
of
people
descending
the
staircase
to
lunch
.
There
were
a
few
there
who
had
earned
,
and
many
who
had
received
,
the
honour
and
glory
represented
by
extreme
wealth
;
but
the
two
figures
stooping
over
the
clock
may
have
felt
that
Success
crowning
Opportunity
would
have
been
a
symbol
more
befitting
the
first-class
passengers
of
the
Titanic
.
Perhaps
they
looked
more
kindly
as
one
white-haired
old
man
passed
beneath
W
.
T.
Stead
,
that
untiring
old
warrior
and
fierce
campaigner
in
peaceful
causes
,
who
in
fields
where
honour
and
glory
were
to
be
found
sought
always
for
the
true
and
not
the
false
.
There
were
many
kinds
of
men
there
not
every
kind
,
for
it
is
not
every
man
who
can
pay
from
fifty
to
eight
hundred
guineas
for
a
four
days
'
journey
;
but
most
kinds
of
men
and
women
who
can
afford
to
do
that
were
represented
there
.
Our
solitary
traveller
,
going
down
the
winding
staircase
,
does
not
pause
on
the
first
floor
,
for
that
leads
forward
to
private
apartments
,
and
aft
to
a
writing-room
and
library
;
nor
on
the
second
or
third
,
for
the
entrance-halls
there
lead
to
state-rooms
;
but
on
the
fourth
floor
down
he
steps
out
into
a
reception
room
extending
to
the
full
width
of
the
ship
and
of
almost
as
great
a
length
.
Nothing
of
the
sea
's
restrictions
or
discomforts
here
!
Before
him
is
an
Aubusson
tapestry
,
copied
from
one
of
the
"
Châsses
de
Guise
"
series
of
the
National
Garde-Meuble
;
and
in
this
wide
apartment
there
is
a
sense
,
not
of
the
cramping
necessities
of
the
sea
,
but
of
all
the
leisured
and
spacious
life
of
the
land
.
Through
this
luxurious
emptiness
the
imposing
dignities
of
the
dining-saloon
are
reached
;
and
here
indeed
all
the
insolent
splendour
of
the
ship
is
centred
.
It
was
by
far
the
largest
room
that
had
ever
floated
upon
the
seas
,
and
by
far
the
largest
room
that
had
ever
moved
from
one
place
to
another
.
The
seventeenth-century
style
of
Hatfield
and
Haddon
Hall
had
been
translated
from
the
sombreness
of
oak
to
the
lightness
of
enamelled
white
.
Artist-plasterers
had
moulded
the
lovely
Jacobean
ceiling
,
artist-stainers
had
designed
and
made
the
great
painted
windows
through
which
the
bright
sea-sunlight
was
filtered
;
and
when
the
whole
company
of
three
hundred
was
seated
at
the
tables
it
seemed
not
much
more
than
half
full
,
since
more
than
half
as
many
again
could
find
places
there
without
the
least
crowding
.
There
,
amid
the
strains
of
gay
music
and
the
hum
of
conversation
and
the
subdued
clatter
of
silver
and
china
and
the
low
throb
of
the
engines
,
the
gay
company
takes
its
first
meal
on
the
Titanic
.
And
as
our
traveller
sits
there
solitary
,
he
remembers
that
this
is
not
all
,
that
in
another
great
saloon
farther
off
another
three
hundred
passengers
of
the
second-class
are
also
at
lunch
,
and
that
on
the
floor
below
him
another
seven
hundred
of
the
third-class
,
and
in
various
other
places
near
a
thousand
of
the
crew
,
are
also
having
their
meal
.
All
a
little
oppressive
to
read
about
,
perhaps
,
but
wonderful
to
contrive
and
arrange
.
It
is
what
everyone
is
thinking
and
talking
about
who
sits
at
those
luxurious
tables
,
loaded
not
with
sea-fare
,
but
with
dainty
and
perishable
provisions
for
which
half
the
countries
of
the
world
have
been
laid
under
tribute
.
The
music
flows
on
and
the
smooth
service
accomplishes
itself
;
Honour
and
Glory
,
high
up
under
the
wrought-iron
dome
of
the
staircase
,
are
crowning
another
hour
of
Time
;
and
our
traveller
comes
up
into
the
fresh
air
again
in
order
to
assure
himself
that
he
is
really
at
sea
.
The
electric
lift
whisks
him
up
four
storeys
to
the
deck
again
;
there
all
around
him
are
the
blue-gray
waters
of
the
Channel
surging
in
a
white
commotion
past
the
towering
sides
of
the
ship
,
spurned
by
the
tremendous
rush
and
momentum
of
these
fifty
thousand
tons
through
the
sea
.
