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The entertainment lacked nothing! For four hours the ten sailors took their fill of love and wine. Six months' pay vanished on it.
They were installed, lords of all they surveyed, in the big saloon, regarding with unfriendly eyes the ordinary clients who installed themselves at little tables in corners, where one of the women who were still disengaged, dressed like overgrown babies or music-hall singers, ran to attend on them, and then sat down beside them.