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Across the planching overhead sounded the patter of the children's bare feet. In a couple of minutes they came running down together, laughing on their way, and the Commandant had to wonder again as he had wondered before, on the afternoon when he had sailed them home from Merryman's Head at their beautiful manners. They were neither shy, nor embarrassed. "We saw a mermaid," answered Annet.
Seven o'clock struck from the tall clock in the kitchen, and was echoed ten minutes after by the Dutch clock in the parlour below. The sound whirred up through the planching twice as loud as usual. It was shameful to be left alone like this, to be robbed, murdered, goodness knew what.
To be sure, the men seemed to spend an extravagant amount of their time in the tap-room of the inn, which happened to be immediately beneath my sitting-room. Hour after hour the sound of their muffled conversation ascended to me through the planching, as I sat and studied Dumas, I think.
From the ceiling formed of rude, unplaned beams and the planching of the bedroom above depends a rack crowded with hams and sides of bacon, all wrapped in newspapers. In the window a dozen geraniums are blooming, and beyond them the eye rests on the slope of Sharpitor and the distant ridge of Sheepstor. The fireplace, which faces the window, is deep and capacious, and floored with granite slabs.
Luckily, too, he had set his candle on the planching floor, just wide of the cupboard entrance, and it stood burning as though nothing had happened. With pain which surely must be worse than any pain of death, he heaved himself back and on to the bedroom floor again. He picked up the candle, and warily while his leg wrung him with torture at every step crept down the stairs to explore.
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