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Excerpt from The Prisoner of Mademoiselle: A Love Story
Had the company Of the God's Providence been better acquainted with those Acadian waters, Lieutenant Cowles might have set out less hardily on his venture. He would have known that two perils might beset him, either one liable to tax his resources to the utmost. He had never experienced the incredibly swift turns Of the Fundy tides, whose drifts and cross-currents gave anxiety to the wariest Acadian pilots; and he had never even dreamed of the suddenness Of the Acadian fogs. When he left the Ship it was slack tide, and she lay idly swinging in water too deep for anchorage. A clear sun cheerfully ¿ooded her trim spars and rigging and white decks, and gleamed on.
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