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"Loud the angry wind was wailing. " / LONGFELLOW.
JEM had crossed the Channel many a time, but he had never known a rougher passage. Until they were well out of Dieppe harbour, nobody-not even the experienced Captain-had imagined what the force of wind and wave would be: or certainly Jem would have insisted on delay, notwithstanding Jean's impatience to be off. Such weather is rare in May, when one expects to have done with the worst gales of winter and spring.