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Updated: May 11, 2025
And the madness of all this movement, under the ever-darkening sky, accelerated the height of the intolerable clamour. Yann and Sylvestre stood at the helm, still singing, "Jean Francois de Nantes"; intoxicated with the quiver of speed, they sang out loudly, laughing at their inability to hear themselves in this prodigious wrath of the wind.
There was great excitement in the villages, women rushing about to find their husbands and urging them to put off quickly, and struggling hard themselves to hoist the sails and help in the launching; in fact, a regular "turnout" throughout the places, though in the midst of the company Yann related this very simply; he had been obliged to look out for a substitute and warrant him to the owner of the boat to which he belonged for the winter season.
When Gaud asked: "How long then are you going to love me, Yann?" He answered, surprisedly, looking at her full in the face with his frank eyes: "Why, for ever, Gaud." That word, spoken so simply by his fierce lips, seemed to have its true sense of eternity. She leaned on his arm.
Slowly the winter drew nigh, and spread over all like a shroud leisurely drawn. Gray days followed one another, but Yann appeared no more, and the two women lived on in their loneliness. With the cold, their daily existence became harder and more expensive. Old Yvonne was difficult to tend, too; her poor mind was going.
A scent of incense and burned poppies, and there was a hum of the echoes of distant bells. I said to the sentinel in the tongue of the region of Yann, "Why are they all asleep in this still city?" He answered: "None may ask questions in this gate for fear they wake the people of the city. For when the people of this city wake the gods will die. And when the gods die men may dream no more."
I am from Roscoff, and O how tired, madame!" "He is Breton! He speaks the Breton!" She clapped her hands, drew me down from my seat, and kissed me on both cheeks. "Yann, you shall sleep now this instant. Tell me only how you came a word or two that I may repeat to the farmer." So I did my best, and told her about the run, and the dragoons on the beach, and how I came on Lilith's back.
I asked him what gods they worshipped in that city, and he said, 'All those gods whom Time has not yet slain. Then he turned from me and would say no more, but busied himself in behaving in accordance with ancient custom. And so, according to the will of Yann, we drifted onwards and left Astahahn. The river widened below Astahahn, and we found in greater quantities such birds as prey on fishes.
So Yann himself feared to be swallowed up by the sea, as if it would annihilate him, and the thought of Sylvestre, so far away on the other side of the earth, made his sorrow more dark and desperate. With his contempt for his fellows, he had no shame or constraint in weeping, no more than if he were alone.
Gaud was frightened by all this; what companions were these for her Yann? and what a fearful thing was this Iceland, to inspire men with such terror of it?
And the flow of the river was tumbling now tumultuously, and little waves appeared; for Yann had scented from afar the ancient crags of Glorm, and knew that their ravines lay cool before him wherein he should meet the merry wild Irillion rejoicing from fields of snow.
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