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"C'est fait," exclaimed Jacques, now quite as much excited as the other, and eager to rescue any one in peril or distress, as every sailor of every nationality always is that is, a true sailor. "Starboard it is!" "Babord!" cried out Antoine, as the helmsman called him, telling the latter he was to put the tiller over. "Port." Jacques replied by a counter order.
Valérie growl his "Babord" and "Tribord" in harsher tones than usual to his mate, because he cannot keep his thoughts off Marie and the little ones ashore; his dark-eyed Marie, praying her heart out to the Virgin on her knees, feeling, as the fierce wind howls and blusters round their hut, that not on her wedding-morning, not on that summer eve when he won her down by the sea, did she love her Pierre so dearly, as now in this dark boisterous weather, that causes her very flesh to creep while she listens to its roar.
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