About six o’clock
And this is why , in Nagasaki , all the Japanese gentlemen of a certain age have in their collections two or three of these little pictures , for which they are indebted to the delicate and original talent of M. Sucre ! BOOK 3 . Sunday , August 25th . About six o'clock , while I was on duty , the ` Triomphante ' abandoned her prison walls between the mountains and came out of dock . After much manoeuvring we took up our old moorings in the harbor , at the foot of the Diou-djen-dji hills . The weather was again calm and cloudless , the sky presenting a peculiar clarity , as if it had been swept by a cyclone , an exceeding transparency bringing out the minutest details in the distance till then unseen ; as if the terrible blast had blown away every vestige of the floating mists and left behind it nothing but void and boundless space . The coloring of woods and mountains stood out again in the resplendent verdancy of spring after the torrents of rain , like the wet colors of some freshly washed painting .