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Updated: June 24, 2025
Ages ago, about the same time that the Anglo-Saxon invaders first settled down in England, a band of similar English pirates, from the old common English home by the cranberry marshes of the Baltic, drove their long ships upon the long rocky peninsula of the Cotentin, which juts out, like a French Cornwall, from the mainland of Normandy up to the steep cliffs and beetling crags of busy Cherbourg.
The ships had described seven circles about each other and were starting on the eighth, when Winslow, all alive and eagerness, saw the Alabama set her fore trysail and two jibs and start for shore. That meant that it was all up with her, and her captain's only hope now was to get into the harbor of Cherbourg.
Morning and evening the telegraph made us all partakers of the hopes and fears agitating the world. Too soon it was apparent that the exigence of France would not be satisfied, while already her preparations for war were undisguised. At all the naval stations, from Toulon to Cherbourg, the greatest activity prevailed.
"No, we come from the south; but one of our comrades comes from Cherbourg and, as he cannot get away, we are going to see his friends and tell them that he is well. It is a holiday for us, and we may as well go there as anywhere else." The explanation was simple enough for the peasant, and Terence continued chatting with him until they landed.
The wind came in heavy gusts from the south-west, and shortly after midnight it began to veer to the west, which brought up a dense fog. At four bells in the mid watch, the wind came square from the west in heavy squalls. The ship went about, and stood to the southward, the principal intending to go into Cherbourg if the weather would permit.
I did once confide to you the secret of my former life, and will own, what I little imagined at the time, that I have in consequence put it into your power to do me serious injury. You must now listen to me, while I give you a sketch of my memoirs, from the time that we parted at Cherbourg." McElvina then entered into a short history of what the reader is acquainted with.
We shall then out-sail everything, go where we like unsuspected, and land our cargo with ease. I shall run alongside of her she can have but few hands on board; and mind, do not hurt anybody, but be civil and obey my orders. Morrison, you and your four men and the boy will remain on board as before, and take the vessel to Cherbourg, where we will join you."
"Why have I always come to you, when it was possible?" he asked. "No one ever had such a friend, Peter. Of that I am sure: "I wanted to see Paris," he said, "before I grew too decrepit to enjoy it." She smiled, and turned away. "Have you seen much of it?" "Enough to wish to see more." "When did you arrive?" "Some time in the night," he said, "from Cherbourg.
"But you have not come from there?" "Yes," said the lad quietly, and with a bitter tone of sadness in his words; "we crossed over from Cherbourg oh, it must be a month ago." "We?" said Waller inquiringly. "Yes; I came with my father and four other gentlemen to Lymington." "And are they here in the forest?" The lad looked at him wonderingly.
They lacked, in a certain measure, the majesty of their misfortune. Charles X. during the voyage from Cherbourg, causing a round table to be cut over into a square table, appeared to be more anxious about imperilled etiquette than about the crumbling monarchy. This diminution saddened devoted men who loved their persons, and serious men who honored their race. The populace was admirable.
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