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They were dark-haired and dark-eyed, yet with skin so terribly pale that on occasion it was muttered that the O’Malleys didn’t go about by day, but that wasn’t true.
Some said the O’Malleys had too much saltwater in their veins to be good and god-fearing, or good anything else for that matter.
There’s an old woman, though, with plans and plots of long gestation; and there’s the sea, which will have her due, come hell or high water; and there are secrets and lies which never stay buried forever.
a silver necklace with the ship’s bell pendant engraved with what might be scalloping or fish scales. Aoife also wears one; she says my mother did as well. As all the firstborns did.
If I know anything for certain it’s that neither love nor hate is ever simple.
the firstborn, a girl to inherit; the middle a boy for the Church; and the last another girl,
They look, in the daylight, like glorious girls with long locks in every shade, glowing skins and eyes, red lips and white teeth, figures to catch the eye.
