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Updated: May 6, 2025
The point they had now reached, though far from any road, was not more than a mile from the Blooms-End cottages occupied by Fairway, Sam, Humphrey, and the Cantles. Moreover, fifty yards off stood a hut, built of clods and covered with thin turves, but now entirely disused. The simple outline of the lonely shed was visible, and thither he determined to direct his steps.
"'A faltered on from one day to another, and then we heard he was gone." "D'ye think he had great pain when 'a died?" said Christian. "O no quite different. Nor any pain of mind. He was lucky enough to be God A'mighty's own man." "And other folk d'ye think 'twill be much pain to 'em, Mister Fairway?" "That depends on whether they be afeard."
Forty miles above Quebec the St Lawrence channel narrows to only a quarter of a mile, and the down current becomes very swift indeed. Above this channel was the small French fleet, which could stop a much larger one trying to get up, or could even block most of the fairway by sinking some of its own ships.
The vessels were in echelon, the one highest up the river lying well over to the left bank and nearest to the fort, the rest studding the fairway so that if they sank at their moorings it would be impossible for a ship of any size to thread its way between them.
We went about again, steering for the first outward mark of the fairway, the Mullet Buoy. Only the last house of the village was now looking at us remotely, a tiny white cube which frequently sank, on its precarious ledge of earth, beneath an intervening upheaval of the waters. The sea was superior now, as we saw the world from our little boat.
Grandfer Cantle, you turn the tick the right way outwards, and then I'll begin to shake in the feathers." When the bed was in proper trim Fairway and Christian brought forward vast paper bags, stuffed to the full, but light as balloons, and began to turn the contents of each into the receptacle just prepared.
I didn't touch the helm, for with the current and heave of the sea the sloop found herself at the end of the run absolutely in the fairway of the channel. You couldn't have beaten it in the navy!
There is one objection to this device; for, as the post stands in the middle of the fairway, any one precipitately issuing from the cottage must run his chance of a broken head. So far as I am aware, it is peculiar to the little corner of country about Girvan.
One of the gentlemen, who was of a portly figure, walked in the midst of the fairway, and presently held up a staff by way of signal. "My man, have you seen anything of a carrier's cart?" he cried. At another season, Sergeant Brand would have paid more attention to the fact; but he was then immersed in the perils of his own predicament.
I told him 'twas barely decent in a' old man to come so oversoon; but words be wind." "Klk! I wasn't going to bide waiting about, till half the game was over! I'm as light as a kite when anything's going on!" crowed Grandfer Cantle from the chimneyseat. Fairway had meanwhile concluded a critical gaze at Yeobright.
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