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Updated: July 16, 2025
"Where are you taking me?" he asked, as they crept past the miners' cottages on the cliff above Rouge Terrier. "To Brenière.... To L'Etat.... Bernel went on to find a boat." And presently they were out on the bald cliff-head, and slipping and sliding down it till they came to the ledge, below which Brenière spreads out on the water like a giant's hand.
I've been tempted at times to throw it all up and go back to England" at which Nance's heart gave so unusual a little kick that she had difficulty in frowning it into quietude, and just then Bernel came in with his gun and a couple of rabbits. "Who's going to England?" he asked. "I'll go too." "No you won't," said Nance sharply. "We want you here."
As she swept along below, she gave just one quick up-glance, and then, with completest ignorance of his presence, turned her head to Bernel and chattered away to him with most determined nonchalance.
They stumbled through the darkness and the sleeping gulls, which woke in fright, and volubly accused one another of nightmares and riotous behaviour and Bernel hauled in his boat, and handed Gard the tin dipper and three good-sized bream. "If you can't eat them all at once, split them open and dry them in the sun," he said. "They'll keep for a week that way."
She did not want to have the doctor, but the things she took did her no good, and mother said I had better go and ask him for something more." "And where is Bernel?" "He went to the fishing with Billy Mollet, and he was not back." "And suppose the doctor is not in?" "They will know where he is, and I will go after him." "Did you see those wonderful waves of fire as you came across the Coupée?"
And yet he was quite sure she could be very much otherwise when she would. For he had heard her singing over her work, and laughing merrily with Bernel; and her face, sweet as it was in its repression, seemed to him more fitted for smiles and laughter and joyousness.
"As you were leaving him last night?" and the old man gazed at her as though he doubted his ears or her right senses. "But yes," she cried impatiently. "I swam across there last night to see if Bernel was there and to take him some food. But you are not to tell that to any one. And he told me " "You swam across? to L'Etat?" "Yes, yes! We have done it many times, and, besides, I had the bladders "
While all along the great black base of the peak the white waves rushed like mighty rockets, flinging long white arms up its ragged sides and crashing together at the end in dazzling bursts of foam. "Wonderful!" said Gard. "I've lain here for hours watching it." "I've swum it," said Nance quietly. "So've I," said Bernel. "Never! You two? I wonder you came back alive!"
Tom, of course, took as droit d'ainesse, before the division, the family clock which still bore signs of strife, and had refused to go since that night when Gard's buffet had sent him headlong into it; and the farm-ladders and the pilotins the stone props on which the haystacks were built; and in addition to his own full share, as between himself and Nance and Bernel, he exacted from them to the uttermost farthing the extra seventh part of the value of all they received an Island right, but honoured more in the breach than in the observance, and one which, in its exercise, tended to label the exerciser as unduly mean and grasping.
But Nance was a busy maid, with hens and chickens, and cows and calves, and pigs and piglets claiming her constant attention, and it was only now and again that she could so arrange her duties as to allow of a flight with Bernel a flight which always took the way to the sea and developed presently into a bathing revel wherein she flung cares and clothes to the winds, or into a fishing excursion, in which pleasure and profit and somewhat of pain were evenly mixed.
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