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hours later’, the press had
arrived in time to see her
getting out, covered in grease.
‘I was absolutely starving,
and there was nothing to eat.
Lunch had been forgotten.
The wharf-keeper’s “tea” of
bread and cheese had just
been brought, and he
generously gave it to me.
Never before had food tasted
like these hunks of bread and
cheese which I devoured,
sitting on the wharf in my