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A Sister to Evangeline
A Sister to Evangeline
_Being the Story of Yvonne de Lamourie, and how she went into exile with the villagers of Grand Pré_
By Charles G. D. Roberts
Author of _The Forge in the Forest_, _A History of Canada_, _Earth’s Enigmas_, _New York Nocturnes_, &c.
Lamson, Wolffe and Company Boston, New York, London MDCCCXCVIII
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Copyright, 1898 By Lamson, Wolffe and Company
_All rights reserved_
PRESS OF Rockwell and Churchill BOSTON
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_To_ MY MOTHER EMMA WETMORE BLISS ROBERTS
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Contents
Chapter Page
I. Paul Grande’s Home-coming to Grand Pré 1
II. Grûl’s Warning 11
III. Charms and Counter-charms 15
IV. “Habet!” 23
V. The Black Abbé Defers 31
VI. A New England Englishman 36
VII. Guard! 43
VIII. The Moon in the Apple-bough 50
IX. In Sleep a King; but Waking, no such Matter 58
X. A Grand Pré Morning 66
XI. Father Fafard 77
XII. Le Fûret at the Ferry 87
XIII. Unwilling to be Wise 94
XIV. Love Me, Love My Dog 100
XV. Ashes as it were Bread 105
XVI. The Way of a Maid 112
XVII. Memory is a Child 117
XVIII. For a Little Summer’s Sleep 125
XIX. The Borderland of Life 135
XX. But Mad Nor-nor-west 142
XXI. Beauséjour, and After 149
XXII. Grûl’s Case 156
XXIII. At Gaspereau Lower Ford 161
XXIV. “If you love me, leave me” 168
XXV. Over Gaspereau Ridge 177
XXVI. The Chapel Prison 182
XXVII. Dead Days and Withered Dreams 191
XXVIII. The Ships of her Exile 200
XXIX. The Hour of her Desolation 208
XXX. A Woman’s Privilege 218
XXXI. Young Will and Old Wisdom 229
XXXII. Aboard the “Good Hope” 238
XXXIII. The Divine Right of Queens 246
XXXIV. The Soul’s Supremer Sense 254
XXXV. The Court in the Cabin 260
XXXVI. Sword and Silk 268
XXXVII. Fire in Ice 279
XXXVIII. Of Long Felicity Brief Word 285
A Sister to Evangeline