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Updated: May 17, 2025

At first I was sanguine enough to hope that, seeing how we slipped away from her, the lateener would 'bout ship, and return to her moorings; but nothing of the kind: she held on like grim death, her skipper, no doubt, being seaman enough to read in the increasingly-threatening aspect of the heavens a promise that his turn should come by-and-by.

Harry Collingwood - Under the Meteor Flag: Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War