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Carette of Sark

CHAPTER XXXVI
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If they are beaten over there--and they will be, unless the Guernsey men are bigger fools than they used to be--we may see some of them across here again and in a still worse temper.

If they make a bolt at the last, they'll make for France, and ten to one they'll take a bite at us in passing.

They came to stop trouble before, now they'll come to make it." "It's what was in my mind.

I'll see Amice Le Couteur at once." "B'en! and give the word to all you see, George," she called after him.
"And bid the women and children to the Gouliots if they hear they are coming--the upper chamber above the black rock.

It won't be just hide-and-seek this time." "Good idea!" Uncle George called back over his shoulder.
"Common sense," said Aunt Jeanne.


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