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But the discipline of
this noble commander-in-chief was so strict in his own house, that though the event
was so important, the news so serious, still no one could be admitted; no one dared
either to wake him if asleep, or to address him if awake. But now, when the affair
had become known to everybody, a vast multitude was collecting in every part of the
city; for the arrival of the pirates was not given notice of, as had formerly been
the custom, by a fire raised on a watchtower, or a hill, but both the disaster that
had already been sustained, and the danger that was impending, were notified by the
conflagration of the fleet itself.
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