Chapter 12

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌​​‌‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌‌​‌​​‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌⁠Brilliant sunlight lit up the grey spires and threatening pinnacles of St. Malo. The back of the ancient fortress was hidden in white mist, but the houses which rose above the battlements facing the harbour, and the shops and little taverns near the quay, shone out in brightness, their windows glittering under the sky where straying clouds, driven by the wind, were melting, as they fled, into the