eleven o'clock
To reach the corvette , to enter her , and to have the gig swinging on her quarter occupied but five minutes . Both ships now filled away , and the corvette began to throw out one sheet of cloth after another until she was under a cloud of canvas , again standing to the eastward with studding-sails alow and aloft . On the other hand , the Montauk laid her yards square , and ran down to the Hook . The pilot from the corvette had been sent on board the packet , and , the wind standing , by eleven o'clock the latter had crossed the bar . At this moment the low dark stern of the Foam resembled a small black spot on the sea sustaining a pyramid of cloud . `` You were not on deck , John , to take leave of our young friend Powis , '' said Mr. Effingham , reproachfully . `` I do not wish to witness a ceremony of this extraordinary nature .