Gilbert Parker

“ It was Angèle herself who brought the two Seigneurs together at her own good table, and it needed all her tact on that occasion to prevent the ancient foes from drinking all the wine in her cellar.
There was no parish in Jersey that did not know their goodness, but mostly in the parishes of St. Martin's and Rozel were their constant labors done. From all parts of the island people came to hear Michel speak, though that was but seldom, and when he spoke he always wore the sword the Queen had given him, and used the Book he had studied in her palace. ”

“ Hundreds of homes, isolated because of a victim of the plague found therein, became ghastly breeding-places of the disease, and then silent, disgusting graves. If a man shivered in fear, or staggered from weakness, or for very hunger turned sick, he was marked as a victim, and despite his protests was huddled away with the real victims to die the awful death. ”

“ From every church, where clergy were left to pray, went up the cry for salvation from "plague, pestilence, and famine." Scores of ships from Holland and from France lay in the Channel, not allowed to touch the shores of England, nor permitted to return whence they came. On the very day that news of this reached Jersey, came a messenger from the Queen of England for Michel de la Forêt to hasten to her court. Even as the young officer who brought the letter handed it to de la Forêt in the little house on the hill-side above Rozel Bay, he was taken suddenly ill, and fell at de la Forêt's feet. ”