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    Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 5.
    Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 5.
    Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 5.
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    Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 5.

    By Gilbert Parker

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    Gilbert Parker was a late 19th and early 20th century politician and novelist who wrote prodigiously. The British-Canadian's works are still popular in the 21st century.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKrill Press
    Release dateJan 8, 2016
    ISBN9781518363429
    Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 5.
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    Gilbert Parker

    Gilbert Parker (1862–1932), also credited as Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet, was a Canadian novelist and British politician. His initial career was in education, working in various schools as a teacher and lecturer. He then traveled abroad to Australia where he became an editor at the Sydney Morning Herald. He expanded his writing to include long-form works such as romance fiction. Some of his most notable titles include Pierre and his People (1892), The Seats of the Mighty and The Battle of the Strong.

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      Pierre and His People - Gilbert Parker

      PIERRE AND HIS PEOPLE: TALES OF THE FAR NORTH. VOLUME 5.

      ..................

      Gilbert Parker

      YURITA PRESS

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      This book is a work of fiction; its contents are wholly imagined.

      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2016 by Gilbert Parker

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      ANTOINE AND ANGELIQUE THE CIPHER A TRAGEDY OF NOBODIES A SANCTUARY OF THE PLAINS: ANTOINE AND ANGELIQUE

      THE CIPHER

      A TRAGEDY OF NOBODIES

      A SANCTUARY OF THE PLAINS

      ETEXT EDITOR’S BOOKMARKS:

      Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 5.

      By

      Gilbert Parker

      Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 5.

      Published by Yurita Press

      New York City, NY

      First published circa 1932

      Copyright © Yurita Press, 2015

      All rights reserved

      Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

      About YURITA Press

      Yurita Press is a boutique publishing company run by people who are passionate about history’s greatest works. We strive to republish the best books ever written across every conceivable genre and making them easily and cheaply available to readers across the world.

      ANTOINE AND ANGELIQUE THE CIPHER A TRAGEDY OF NOBODIES A SANCTUARY OF THE PLAINS: ANTOINE AND ANGELIQUE

      ..................

      The birds are going south, Antoine—see—and it is so early!

      Yes, Angelique, the winter will be long.

      There was a pause, and then: Antoine, I heard a child cry in the night, and I could not sleep.

      It was a devil-bird, my wife; it flies slowly, and the summer is dead.

      Antoine, there was a rushing of wings by my bed before the morn was breaking.

      The wild-geese know their way in the night, Angelique; but they flew by the house and not near thy bed.

      The two black squirrels have gone from the hickory tree.

      They have hidden away with the bears in the earth; for the frost comes, and it is the time of sleep.

      "A cold hand was knocking at my heart when I said my aves last night, my

      Antoine."

      The heart of a woman feels many strange things: I cannot answer, my wife.

      Let us go also southward, Antoine, before the great winds and the wild frost come.

      I love thee, Angelique, but I cannot go.

      Is not love greater than all?

      To keep a pledge is greater.

      Yet if evil come?

      There is the mine.

      None travels hither; who should find it?

      He said to me, my wife: ‘Antoine, will you stay and watch the mine until

      I come with the birds northward, again?’ and I said: ‘I will stay, and

      Angelique will stay; I will watch the mine.’"

      This is for his riches, but for our peril, Antoine.

      Who can say whither a woman’s fancy goes? It is full of guessing. It is clouds and darkness to-day, and sunshine—so much—to-morrow. I cannot answer.

      I have a fear; if my husband loved me—

      There is the mine, he interrupted firmly.

      When my heart aches so—

      Angelique, there is the mine.

      Ah, my Antoine!

      And so these two stayed on the island of St. Jean, in Lake Superior, through the purple haze of autumn, into the white brilliancy of winter, guarding the Rose Tree Mine, which Falding the Englishman and his companions had prospected and declared to be their Ophir.

      But St. Jean was far from the ways of settlement, and there was little food and only one hut, and many things must be done for the Rose Tree Mine in the places where men sell their souls for money; and Antoine and Angelique, French peasants from the parish of Ste. Irene in Quebec, were left to guard the place of treasure, until, to the sound of the laughing spring, there should come many men and much machinery, and the sinking of shafts in the earth, and the making, of riches.

      But when Antoine and Angelique were left alone in the waste, and God began to draw the pale coverlet of frost slowly across land and water, and to surround St. Jean with a stubborn

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