So day by day the spell deepened with Louie, and for another week there was delightful loneliness with this lover of hers-strolls down through the swampy woods hunting for moss to frame the prints he had brought home uninjured, and which were to be part of the furnishing of their future home; others across the salt meadows for the little red samphire stems to pickle; sails in the float down river and in the creeks, where the tall thatch parted by the prow rustled almost overhead, and the gulls came flying and piping around them: here and there, they two alone, pouring out thought and soul to each other, and every now and then glancing shyly at those days, that did not seem so very far away, when they should be sailing together through foreign parts; for Louie's father, the old fisherman, was all her household, and a maiden aunt, who earned her livelihood in nursing the sick and attending the dead, would be glad to come any day and take Louie's place in the cottage.
"Not Pretty, But Precious"
John Hay, et al.
He also collected the samphire growing on the rocky masses that jutted out into the sea, and for which his wife found a ready sale in the town market.
"Tales of the Toys, Told by Themselves"
Frances Freeling Broderip
To the south of us, sheer out of the water, rose the Shakespeare Cliff, where samphire was wont to grow; while between it and the castle appeared the old town on either side of a steep valley, the heights, as far as we could see them, covered with modern houses, churches, and other public buildings.
"A Yacht Voyage Round England"
W.H.G. Kingston
