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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