Chapter I: Front Matter

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