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Updated: June 8, 2025
Trespolo, in whom fear had destroyed all scruples, being first examined, as having been the young prince's confidant, declared with cool impudence that, his master having shown a wish to escape for a few days from the importunities of a young married lady whose passion was beginning to tire him, had followed him to the island with three or four of his most faithful servants, and that he himself had adopted the disguise of a pilgrim, not wishing to betray his excellency's incognito to the fisher-people, who would certainly have tormented so powerful a person by all sorts of petitions.
By and by the Deephaven warehouses will fall and be used for firewood by the fisher-people, and the wharves will be worn away by the tides.
I said in surprise, for I knew well that little shrine by the coast, where the fisher-people made supplication for good weather and success in their craft, and hung up their poor offerings for the holy saint's honour. "Ay, that it is," said Des Bois. "Now will we find its guardian at his vigils."
"And don't you know what it was?" "I know the fisher-people carry stuff about with them in case of accidents." "That's the way with girls- just to think one knows nothing at all." "What do you know, Adrian?" "Know? Why, I haven't been about with Kit and Ted Harewood for nothing!
She might admit her illness indeed, she would be almost compelled to do that, for she had fallen away so much, and had had her hair cut short during the height of the fever but Archie and Madame must not know that she had been in a public hospital. For fisher-people have a singular dislike to public charity of any kind; they help one another.
People came from miles in all directions, including all the men who were at work for Mr Marston every one to stand and stare at the poor dead beasts and say nothing. Small farmers, fen-men, people from the town, folk from the shore where the cockle-beds lay, and the fisher-people who were supposed to live upon very little fish and a great deal of smuggling.
When the ship struck, the fisher-people ran out of the town to the shore nearest her, and this boy would have run out with them and been among the foremost but that a very pious and charitable lady of the place had besought him to take her with him. There was a great rain and wind, and it was with difficulty that he led the lady out and helped her down to the shore.
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