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I suppose I must have crouched there for a full half-hour. When one is watching eagerly, however, time always appears longer.
The steamer whose siren had awakened the echoes of the port had swung from her moorings, and slowly glided past us to the open sea, making a southward course; while work on the collier appeared to be finished, and the whole port had settled down to the peace of night.