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A Terrible Coward, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: A Terrible Coward
Author: George Manville Fenn
Release Date: November 6, 2007 [EBook #23376]
Language: English
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A Terrible Coward, by George Manville Fenn.
CHAPTER ONE.
THE DIVER'S ROCK.
Boom! with a noise like thunder.
Plash! directly after; but the sounds those two words express, multiplied and squared if you like, till the effect upon the senses is, on the first hearing, one of dread mingled with awe at the mightiness of the power of the sea.
For this is not "how the waters come down at Lodore," but how they come in at Carn Du, a little fishing town on the Cornish coast.
There's a black mass of rock standing out like a buttress just to the west of the little harbour, running right into the sea, and going down straight like a wall into the deep clear water at its foot, as if to say to the waves, "Thus far may you come, and no farther." For hundreds upon hundreds of years the winds and tides have combined to rid themselves of this obstacle to their progress, the winds urging the waves that come rolling in from the vast