Gilbert Parker

Name: A Romany of the Snows — The Plunderer
Author: Gilbert Parker

A Romany of the Snows — The Plunderer (1898)

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“A Romany of the Snows — The Plunderer”, published in 1898, is a work by Gilbert Parker. It explores elements such as Kitty Cline, Liddall and Pierre.

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Gilbert Parker, A Romany of the Snows — The Plunderer (1898)

“ The Plunderer IT was no use: men might come and go before her, but Kitty Cline had eyes for only one man. Pierre made no show of liking her, and thought, at first, that hers was a passing fancy. He soon saw differently. There was that look in her eyes which burns conviction as deep as the furnace from which it comes: the hot, shy, hungering look of desire; most childlike, painfully infinite. He would rather have faced the cold mouth of a pistol; for he felt how it would end. He might be beyond wish to play the lover, but he knew that every man can endure being loved. ”

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Gilbert Parker, A Romany of the Snows — The Plunderer (1898)

“ I saw a woman look once as though she could lose the whole world—and her own soul. She was a good woman. The man was bad—most: he never could be anything else. A look like that breaks the nerve. It is not amusing. In time the man goes to pieces. But before that comes he is apt to do strange things. Eh—so!”
He sat down, and, with his finger, wrote musingly in the dust upon the table.
Liddall looked keenly at him, and replied more brusquely than he felt: “Do you think it fair to stay—fair to her?”
“What if I should take her with me?” Pierre flashed a keen, searching look after the words. ”

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Gilbert Parker, A Romany of the Snows — The Plunderer (1898)

“ In the crowd there were mutterings unmistakable to Pierre. He suddenly came among them, caught a revolver from his pocket, and shot over the reader's shoulder six times into the pasted strip of newspaper.
The men dropped back. They were not prepared for warlike measures at the moment. Pierre leaned his back against the pillar and waited. His silence and coolness, together with an iron fierceness in his face, held them from instant demonstration against him; but he knew that he must face active peril soon. He pocketed his revolver and went up the hill to the house of Kitty Cline's mother. ”

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Gilbert Parker, A Romany of the Snows — The Plunderer (1898)

“ He never got away from the look in Kitty Cline's eyes. He felt the thing wearing on him, and he hesitated to speculate on the result; but he knew vaguely that it would end in disaster. There is a kind of corrosion which eats the granite out of the blood, and leaves fever.
“What is the worst thing that can happen a man, eh?” he said to Liddall one day, after having spent a few minutes with Kitty Cline.
Liddall was an honest man. He knew the world tolerably well. In writing once to his partner in Montreal he had spoken of Pierre as “an admirable, interesting scoundrel.” ”

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Gilbert Parker, A Romany of the Snows — The Plunderer (1898)

“ But there were mounted men in the main street, and one, well ahead of the others, was making towards the bridge over which they must pass. He reached it before they did, and set his horse crosswise in its narrow entrance. Pierre urged his mare in front of the girl's, and drove straight at the head and shoulders of the obstructing horse. His was the heavier animal, and it bore the other down. The rider fired as he fell, but missed, and, in an instant, Pierre and the girl were over. The fallen man fired the second time, but again missed. ”

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Gilbert Parker, A Romany of the Snows — The Plunderer (1898)

“ The two things together told hard against Pierre. Before, he might have gone; in the face of difficulty he certainly would not go. Willie Haslam's funeral was a public function: he was young, innocent-looking, handsome, and the people did not know what Pierre would not tell now—that he had cheated grossly at cards. Pierre was sure, before Liddall, the surveyor, told him, that a movement was apace to give him trouble—possibly fatal.
“You had better go,” said Liddall. “There's no use tempting Providence.”
“They are tempting the devil,” was the cool reply ”

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Gilbert Parker, A Romany of the Snows — The Plunderer (1898)

“ I would rather talk with you than with any other man in the country, and yet—”
“And yet you would not take me to your home? That is all right. I expect nothing. I accept the terms. I know what I am and what you are. I like men who are square. ”

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Gilbert Parker, A Romany of the Snows — The Plunderer (1898)

“ Together they ran down the hillside, and made for the stables of the Fort. People were hurrying through the long street of the town, and torches were burning, but they came by a roundabout to the stables safely. Pierre was about to enter, when a man came out. It was Liddall. He kept his horses there, and he had saddled one, thinking that Pierre might need it.
There were quick words of explanation, and then, “Must the girl go too?” he asked. “It will increase the danger—besides—”
“I am going wherever he goes,” she interrupted hoarsely. “I have killed men ”

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