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Updated: May 17, 2025
At the name of Mayor of Bruges, you probably represent to yourself a fat, heavy, formal, self-sufficient mortal tout au contraire: our Mayor was a thin gentleman, of easy manners, literature, and amusing conversation: Madame, a beautiful Provinciale. M. Lerret, the Mayor, found us out to be the Edgeworths described by M. Pictet in the Journal Britannique.
Somewhere about this time it might have been sooner, it might have been later he became conscious of a sensation which, in its incipient and unrecognized form, had lurked within him from some unnoticed moment when he was sitting close to his new friend under the lerret. Though a young man, he was too old a hand not to know what this was, and felt alarmed even dismayed.
'Ah! I know your father, cried the trumpet-major, 'old James Cornick. It was the man who had brought Anne in his lerret from Portland Bill. 'And Bob hasn't got a scratch? said the miller. 'Not a scratch, said Cornick. Loveday then bustled off to draw the visitor something to drink.
They then perceived that it had lain there a long time, and were comforted to find it capable of affording more protection than anybody would have expected from a distant view. It formed a shelter or store for the fishermen, the bottom of the lerret being tarred as a roof.
The rain fell upon the keel of the old lerret like corn thrown in handfuls by some colossal sower, and darkness set in to its full shade. They crouched so close to each other that he could feel her furs against him. Neither had spoken since they left the roadway till she said, with attempted unconcern: 'This is unfortunate.
'There may be hot work; but we must hope for the best. And observing how wretched she looked, he added, 'But won't you let me help you back? If you can walk as far as Hope Cove it will be enough. A lerret is going from there across the bay homeward to the harbour in the course of an hour; it belongs to a man I know, and they can take one passenger, I am sure.
The trip in the stern of the lerret had quite refreshed her, with the help of the biscuits, which she had at last been able to eat.
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