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And some taking tea and tobacco to Hamburg and Emden, where the people were all uncouth foreigners who spoke neither French nor English and so must offer mighty change from Sercq. Then there were multitudes of smaller vessels, sloops and chasse-marées, bound on shorter and still more profitable, if more dangerous voyages.
She was old enough to have been Rachel's mother, and Rachel may have confided in her. If she did so her confidence was never abused, for Jeanne Falla could talk more and tell less than any woman I ever knew, and that I count a very great accomplishment. She was a Guernsey woman by birth, but had lived on Sercq for over twenty years.
I held him firmly by the head and soothed him with encouraging words. The old horse snuffled between gratitude and disgust, and Carette clung tightly up above, and vowed that she would not cross on Black Boy whatever Torode might say. She was devoutly thankful, I could see, when Gray Robin stepped safely onto the spreading bulk of Little Sercq.
There was no room for him in Sercq, that was evident. He was alien, and the clan spirit was too strong for him. He crept back across the Coupée in the dark, and passed a man there who bade him good-night, not knowing till afterwards who he was.
And so, from every outstanding point, great pieces become detached and form separate islets, between which and the parent isles the currents run like mill-races and take toll of the unwary and the stranger. So, Sercq nuzzles Le Tas, and Jethou Crevichon, and Guernsey Lihou and the Hanois, and even Brecqhou has its whelp in La Givaude.
Then we were bustled out and anywhere to make room for a lot of wounded from the King's ships, and I thought it better to play wounded sailor than wounded smuggler, and so I kept a quiet tongue and they sent me here. The journey threw me back, but I'm glad now I came. It's good to see a Sercq face again." "And the others?" I asked, thinking, past them all, of Carette.
Blight him!" Le Marchant begged me to ask if he had any tobacco and a pipe, and I did so. He went inside and came out with a clay pipe and some dried brown herb. "It is not what you smoke, but such as it is it is there," he said; and Le Marchant tried a whiff or two, but laid the pipe aside with a grunt. "He speaks as do the others from the cage. How come you to speak as we do?" "I am from Sercq.
For, from Cherbourg to Sercq was but forty miles, but, fortunately for us, forty miles which included La Hague and the Race, and if Torode could pick up a fair wind he could do it in four hours or, with all obstacles, in five, or at most six whereas, strain as we might, and we were not fresh to begin with, we could not possibly cover the distance in less than seven hours.
The rest had been killed, except some few who were said to have got across to France. To my great relief neither young Torode nor his mother was among the dead or the captives. Krok was supposed in Sercq to be with my grandfather in Guernsey, and his absence excited no remark.
Then he picked up his jacket, and went back to the cottage with the knife in one hand and his jacket in the other, and went inside and bolted the door, which was not a custom in Sercq. George Hamon slept heavily that night while Nature repaired damages.
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