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Updated: June 3, 2025
"It's cracked he is out an' out of a certainty," said Nance, looking terrified at her husband. "Nothing else am I," shouted Shamus, after groping under the broken slab; "an', for a token, get along wid yourself out of this, ould gran!" He started up and seized her by the shoulder. Noreen remonstrated. He stooped for a stone; she ran; he pursued her to the arches of the ruin.
At the time Nance Molloy stepped into that soft concrete and thus set in motion the series of events that was to influence her future career, she had never been told that her inalienable rights were life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Nevertheless she had claimed them intuitively.
He retreated a little, again grasping the back of the chair with one hand, but there was no restraint in his voice. "Laugh, Nance, laugh! You know what laughing does to them!" "Not to this one, Bernal oh, not to this one!" "But it's only a Gratcher, Nance! I've been asleep all these years. Now I'm awake. I'm in the world again here, do you understand, before you. And it's a glad, good world.
His keen eye never left her for an instant until she placed it in his hands. "Mercy, but it's heavy!" she panted, as she gave it to him. He took it without a word and placed it on the table in the center of the room. Nance glared at him sullenly. "There's no place for ye, I tell ye " Jim faced her with mock politeness. "For them kind words thanks!"
She forgot her own years of toil and gradually her mind went back to the silent boy sitting on the steps with her before her house in the year after her husband's death while she talked to him of the world, and thus she thought of him, a quiet eager boy, going about bravely there in the distant city. Death caught Nance McGregor off her guard.
"But why should I? I'm independent. I can do as I please with the money I earn; and he never would agree for me to keep on working afterward. And say, Nance, what do you want to stick to that old store for, and half starve and half dress yourself? I could get you a place in the laundry right now if you'd come.
Other nominations followed. Edith Williams and her sister were rival candidates for the office of vice president, and Caroline Brinton and Nance were put up for secretary. "Has anybody anything to say?" asked Margaret, still sucking the lemon frantically as a last effort to clear her fogbound voice. Molly stood up. "I think I'd like to speak a few words, Madam President," she said.
There was a good deal of unhappy wrangling, but in the end Mrs. Hamon and Nance found themselves with a large cornfield, one for pasture, and one for mixed crops, potatoes, beans and so on, besides rights of grazing and gorse-cutting on a certain stretch of cliff common.
An excellent scheme, therefore, for all concerned except young Tom, who would have to behave himself better than he was in the habit of doing or suffer the consequences. "Yes," said Nancy. "I don't see that I'd be doing right by Nance and Bernel not to agree to that. And if Tom behaves himself," at which Grannie grunted doubtfully, "he can have his share when the time comes."
In grim and menacing silence, save for the crunch of their heavy feet on the crumbling pathway, the men went past, a dozen or more, as it seemed to Gard. When the sound of them had died in the hollow on the Sark side, Nance whispered, "Quick now! quick!" They crawled back into the roadway, and she took his hand in hers again which shook more than ever, and they sped away into Little Sark.
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