[A Maid of the Silver Sea by John Oxenham]@TWC D-Link bookA Maid of the Silver Sea CHAPTER XIV 5/10
But this is surely very sudden.
Your grandmother seemed all right at dinner-time." "She had bad pains in the afternoon, and they have been getting worse. She did not want to have the doctor, but the things she took did her no good, and mother said I had better go and ask him for something more." "And where is Bernel ?" "He went to the fishing with Billy Mollet, and he was not back." "And suppose the doctor is not in ?" "They will know where he is, and I will go after him." "Did you see those wonderful waves of fire as you came across the Coupee ?" "I have seen them often.
When there is more sea on, and it breaks on the rocks, it is finer still.
It is something in the water, Mr.Cachemaille told me." "I heard your footsteps down there on the Coupee, but I couldn't see a sign of you till you were almost against me." "I saw from the other side that some one was there, but I could not see who." "You have most wonderful eyes in Sark." "It is never quite dark to me on the darkest night.
I suppose it is with being used to it." "You'll have to help me across the Coupee." "And how will you get back ?" "The moon will be up, and then I can see all right.
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