Gilbert Parker

Name: A Romany of the Snows — The Lake of the Great Slave
Author: Gilbert Parker

A Romany of the Snows — The Lake of the Great Slave (1898)

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“A Romany of the Snows — The Lake of the Great Slave”, published in 1898, is a work by Gilbert Parker. It explores elements such as the Great Slave, Tybalt and king.

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Gilbert Parker, A Romany of the Snows — The Lake of the Great Slave (1898)

“ Tybalt seized Pierre's arm. “You know more. Damnation, can't you see I'm on needles to hear? Was there anything in the letters about the lady? Anything more than you've told?”
Pierre liked no man's hand on him. He glanced down at the eager fingers, and said coldly:
“You are a great man; you can tell a story in many ways, but I in one way alone, and that is my way—mais oui!” ”

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Gilbert Parker, A Romany of the Snows — The Lake of the Great Slave (1898)

“ The girl also seized an oar, and the canoe—the king's own canoe—came on like a swallow.
“But the tribe was after them in fifty canoes, some coming straight along, some spreading out to close in later. It was no equal game, for these people were so quick and strong with the oars, and they were a hundred or more to two. There could be but one end. It was what the Great Slave had looked for: to fight till the last breath. He should fight for the woman who had risked all for him—just a common woman of the north, but it seemed good to lose his life for her; and she would be happy to die with him. ”

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Gilbert Parker, A Romany of the Snows — The Lake of the Great Slave (1898)

“ There thou shalt die. But the woman shall die at the going down of the sun. She shall die by fire, and thou shalt light the faggots for the burning.'
“The Great Slave said he would not do it, not though he should die a hundred deaths. Then the king said that it was the woman's right to choose who should start the fire, and he had given his word, which should not be broken.
“When the Great Slave heard this he was wild for a little, and then he guessed altogether what was in the girl's mind. ”

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Gilbert Parker, A Romany of the Snows — The Lake of the Great Slave (1898)

“ You see, a great man must always live alone and die alone, when there are only such people about him. So, now that the letters were written, he sat upon the ground and thought, looking often towards the girl, who was placed apart, with guards near. The king sat thinking also. He could not guess why the Great Slave should give the letters now, since he was not yet to die, nor could the Company's man show a reason when the king asked him. So the king waited, and told the guards to see that the Great Slave did not kill himself. ”

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Gilbert Parker, A Romany of the Snows — The Lake of the Great Slave (1898)

“ The Great Slave could tell, maybe, if he could speak, for a man always knows when a woman sets him high. Anyhow, that was the way it stood. In a moment the girl was marched back to her tent, and all the camp heard a wicked lie of the widow of the king's son. ”

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Gilbert Parker, A Romany of the Snows — The Lake of the Great Slave (1898)

“ If you hear a thing like that from Indians, you call it 'legend'; if from the Company's papers, you call it 'history.' Well, in this there is not much difference. The papers tell precise the facts; the legend gives the feeling, is more true. How can you judge the facts if you don't know the feeling? No! what is bad turns good sometimes, when you know the how, the feeling, the place. Well, this story of the Great Slave—eh? ... There is a race of Indians in the far north who have hair so brown like yours, m'sieu', and eyes no darker. ”

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Gilbert Parker, A Romany of the Snows — The Lake of the Great Slave (1898)

“ If to set a great captive free is death for me, then am I ready. I will answer all pure women in the far Camp of the Great Fires without fear. There is no more, O king, that I may say, but this: she who dies by fire, being of noble blood, may choose who shall light the faggots—is it not so?'
“Then the king replied: 'It is so. ”

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Gilbert Parker, A Romany of the Snows — The Lake of the Great Slave (1898)

“ I will kill each man that says it, one by one, if he dares come forth. She tried to save me—well?' Then he made them know that he was of high place in a far country, and that a man like him would not tell a lie. ”

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