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The tactic required utmost silence; even the crunch of a shoe on frost would spook the ducks. He had refused to reveal the names of others, had refused to plead ignorance of what he had done, or to beg for mercy in any way. They were her summary of what a marriage consisted of, and she had felt led by God to share them with this beginning couple. Naturally, the Choptank men tried to hold the invaders away, but the Virginians were able sailors and knew how to muscle the smaller skipjacks aside.

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