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The Battle Of The Strong
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CHAPTER IX
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If in the vague dusk of her brain the thought glimmered that she was ballast for Jean on sea and anchor on land, she still was content.
For twenty years the massive, straight-limbed Jean had stood to her for all things since the heavens and the earth were created.

Once, when she had burnt her hand in cooking supper for him, his arm made a trial of her girth, and he kissed her.

The kiss was nearer her ear than her lips, but to her mind it was the most solemn proof of her connubial happiness and of Jean's devotion.

She was a Catholic, unlike Jean and most people of her class in Jersey, and ever since that night he kissed her she had told an extra bead on her rosary and said another prayer.
These were the reasons why at first she was inclined to resent Guida's laughter.

But when she saw that Maitre Ranulph and the curate and Jean himself laughed, she settled down to a grave content until they landed.
They had scarce reached the deserted chapel where their dinner was to be cooked by Maitresse Aimable, when Ranulph called them to note a vessel bearing in their direction.
"She's not a coasting craft," said Jean.
"She doesn't look like a merchant vessel," said Ranulph, eyeing her through his telescope.


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