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"Monsieur Torode?" I asked, and after another staring pause, he said gruffly "B'en! I am Torode. What is it you want?" "A berth on your ship there." "And why? Who are you, then?" "Your son knows me. My name is Carré, Phil Carré. I come from Sercq." "Where there?" "Belfontaine." "Does your father live there?" "He's dead these twenty years. I live with my mother and my grandfather."
And, in the intervals of such hard work, we ate cold meats, cunningly cooked, and of excellent quality because Aunt Jeanne had bred them herself; and the best made bread and the sweetest butter in Sercq, and heaps of spicy gâche, all of Aunt Jeanne's own making. And we drank cider of Aunt Jeanne's own pressing, and equal to anything you could get in Guernsey.
"That is where the fun comes in." "Bon Gyu, but that kind of fun does not please me! Some of you will find yourselves at the bottom some day, and that will end the riding in Sercq." "It's safe enough if you have a firm hand that is, if you know how to ride at all," a shot aimed at me, but which failed to wound.
That day seemed as if it never would end. Sercq and Brecqhou lay basking in the sun, as though no tragedies lurked behind their rounded bastions. The sun seemed fixed in the sky. The shadows wheeled so slowly that only by noting them against the seams in the rocks could I be sure that they moved at all.
It informed him that Martel, having married into Sercq and settled on Sercq, belonged to Sercq, and they would have none of him, and were accordingly sending him home again. When Martel appeared to lodge his complaint, and claim the old Island right to cessation of oppression and trial of his cause, M. le Sénéchal was prepared for him.
"I have done naught more than my duty," said my grandfather, and would accept nothing. But Mr. Mulholland stopped with him for some days, while such of the cargo as had floated was being gathered from the shores and, truth to tell, from the houses of Sercq, that is to say some portion of it, for some went down with the ship, and in some of the houses there are silken hangings to this day.
Foremost among the free-traders were Carette's father and brothers on Brecqhou, whereby, as I have said, Carette spent much of her time on Sercq with her aunt Jeanne Falla, which was all for her good, and much to her and my enjoyment.
But growth in its very nature requires a widening sphere. Contentment comes of experience and satisfaction, and youth, to arrive at that, must needs have the experience, but craves it as a rule for itself alone. Sercq is but a dot on the map, and not indeed that on most, and outside it lay all the great world, teeming with wonders which could only be seen by seeking them.
You will say that, being a Sercq man, that is quite how I ought to feel about my own Island.
And I count our little isle of Sercq the very fairest spot on earth, and in that I am not alone. The three years I spent on ships trading legitimately to the West Indies and Canada and the Mediterranean made me familiar with many notable places, but never have I seen one to equal this little pearl of all islands.
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