Crossword-Solution: SERCQ 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 16

And first, let me say that I hold myself a Sercq man born and bred, in spite of the fact that--well, you will come to that presently.

And that is true, but, apart from the fact that I have lived there the greater part of my life, and loved there, and suffered there, and enjoyed there greater happiness than comes to all men, and that therefore Sercq is to me what no other land ever could be,--apart from all that, I hold, and always shall hold, that in the matter of natural beauty, visible to all seeing eyes, our little Island holds her own against the world.

Sercq, in the distance, looks like a great whale basking on the surface of the sea and nuzzling its young.

Now I have told you all this because I have met people whose only idea of Sercq was of a storm-beaten rock, standing grim and stark among the thousand other rocks that bite up through the sea thereabouts.

For all the world knew that if Paul Martel had never come to Sercq, Rachel Carré might have become Mistress Hamon instead of Madame Martel--and very much better for her if she had.