Samuel Alexander White

“ They have gone beyond the law o' God and man, and I will never forgive them for tricking her till I do see her back in your arms. The Esperance be ready, Captain. Marie be on the wharf. Will you take the chance?"
"Will I?" exploded Taylor, grabbing his log. "Watch me, Codroy! Come on, before Pellier has a change of mind."
The Graywing's log under his arm, he led the way into the admiral's waiting boat and the rest of his men filed after. Pellier, Peter, Beauport and the men of the Groix took their places and the rowers sent the craft foaming alongside the Esperance. ”

“ On the ruby peaks perched the resting sea-birds, puffins, guillemots, gulls, razor-billed auks, all black as ebony against the crimson afterglow, their sleepy mutterings drowned by the roar of the waves and the rumble of the air in the ice caverns beneath them. ”

“ I don't care for myself or the schooner, but you fellows have kin back home. I forgot that. It isn't fair to you. Maybe we'd better go aboard the Esperance and fight our case with the law instead of with our fists."
"Now, that is something sensible, Capitaine," cut in Pellier, growing very uneasy at the prospect of stubborn resistance. "It is under the law I am acting, and you have the very same privilege."
"All right, then," surrendered Taylor, "just a minute to get the Graywing's log and I'll be with you. ”

“ And the Esperance is swift, is she, and near the stages? But what about the crew aboard her?"
"They be Newfoundlanders like myself," boomed Codroy John. "Aye, and like myself they be with her. Godfather I were to her, Captain Taylor, and I do love her like the real father she never have had or maybe like the—the—the real husband she never have had. The admiral and old Peter and Beauport do plan wonderful well, but they do forget we Newfoundlanders be God-fearing men. ”