First line of Against the Day?

[Carvill John]

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>"For it's said (and not without reason) that no sooner does a ship like the 
>Scaffold single up all lines than certain Navy wives are out of their 
>civvies and into barmaid uniform, flexing their beer-carrying arms and 
>practicing a hooker's sweet smile; even as the N.O.B. band is playing Auld 
>Lang Syne and the destroyers are blowing stacks in black flakes all over 
>the cuckolds-to-be standing manly at attention, taking leave with me and a 
>tiny grin."
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>http://www.harperacademic.com/catalog/excerpt_xml.asp?isbn=0060930217
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