about ten o'clock
What 's that ? '' A tremendous report had gone off near us ; a brilliant light had shown up the lines of a cruiser ; a shell had shrieked past us and whistled away to explode among the Turks ; and a loud , and swelling murmur of amazement and admiration , rising from the _ Redbreast _ , had burst into a thousand laughs . `` Fate laughs at my poem , '' grumbled Doe . The rain raced down : and , at about ten o'clock , we learned that , for the first time in the history of the _ Redbreast _ , it would be too rough for anyone to land . We must therefore spend the night aboard , and take the risk of disembarking under the enemy 's guns in the morning . So , wooing sleep , we huddled into the chairs of the saloon , and wished for the day . We slept through troubled dreams , and woke to a gathering calm on the sea .