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`` In death we are all friends , '' he said , arranging it with tender fingers . `` Let us pray . '' And in the dusk the living knelt beside the dead . It was high noon . The _ Victory 's _ barge lay on Southsea Beach . A midshipman , with keen long face and anxious eyes , was standing by it , a curly-haired parson at his side . `` Listen here , Kit , '' the latter was saying , `` this is the _ Times _ of a week ago : -- '' _ The intelligence which we announced yesterday , respecting the breaking up of the camp at Boulogne , has been confirmed by the crew of a gun-boat , which was captured on its way from that port to Havre _ . ''