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228 The Channel Islands. ‘Well, sirs,” she said, ‘I do not know what to charge. You have come to me under peculiar circumstances. Instead of my feeding you, you have fed me. My larder groans with good things. My son is away and I have no one to take counsel with. Suppose I say so and so? Do you think it too much? If so, I will accept whatever you consider right and fair.” Lives there the man who could have paid her one fraction less than her demand? Not they, at- any rate, who stood before her. Well, Peeeeeeeeeee TUT] 1 3 i a . " , iT : . as — : . ore - bropeppe eh Ree >. ‘ ; » 4 ~~ er sui atapn $at I reel - hava, "a — e = ‘2 ; i=} ; Ip — =< = Y h ‘\) \ Y \) ‘wil wy We Ub = es %: La ‘ ee \ ‘ ‘ ES. 4 oe Bate 4 WAT . ey te ee oS NS Mey NST Ty. VRS SPS 2 Fu ERAT aL WO OP SAY \ VNU RAW ME SRA, PETIT BOT VALLEY. therefore, that her charges were reasonable, and she a woman true and just in her dealings. Yes, we left behind us much that was lovely and of good report (I now refer to inanimate nature); rocks and cliffs and sea, and splendid walks that demanded weeks of wooing; but we also had before us much that equally attracted us. And one bright morning we chartered a fishing-boat, left the greater portion of our baggage in the safe keeping of Mr. Gardner, and set sail for Sark. How we arrived there, or whether we arrived at all, or what became of us, or whether we ever returned: a reply to these questions, and a true and faithful account of what befel us, must form the subject of another paper. Gomicbooks (E(0)