They all stood watching the coast drift away, the smoke rise.

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The smoke that will drift out of the chapel's chimney early in the evening is likely to be black - meaning no pope has been elected.

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San'ya has aged with its residents, old men with creased faces and missing teeth who squat and smoke on the pavements, drift from bar to bar, or sleep it off in the winter sun on cardboard and plastic matting.

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