Gilbert Parker

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

A Romany of the Snows — The Red Patrol (1898)

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“A Romany of the Snows — The Red Patrol”, published in 1898, is a work by Gilbert Parker. It explores elements such as Sherburne, the Kimash Hills and the Shikam Valley.

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

“ You are a prophet without a call, you are a leader without a man to lead, you are less than a child up here. For here the children feel a peace in their blood when the stars come out, and a joy in their brains when the dawn comes up and reaches a yellow hand to the Pole, and the west wind shouts at them. Holy Mother! we in the far north, we feel things, for all the great souls of the dead are up there at the Pole in the pleasant land, and we have seen the Scarlet Hunter and the Kimash Hills. ”

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

“ You never lied—direct; you never stole the waters that are sweet; you never knew the big dreams that come with wine in the dead of night; you never swore at your own soul and heard it laugh back at you; you never put your face in the breast of a woman—do not look so wild at me!—you never had a child; you never saw the world and yourself through the doors of real life. ”

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

“ Know ye not that in the new springtime of the world ye shall be outcast, because ye have called the sleepers to judgment before their time? But I am the hunter of the lost. Go you,” he said to Sherburne, pointing, “where a sick man lies in a hut in the Shikam Valley. In his soul find thine own again.” Then to Pierre: “For thee, thou shalt know the desert and the storm and the lonely hills; thou shalt neither seek nor find. ”

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

“ He broke into a long, sliding trot, and Sherburne did the same. With their arms gathered to their sides they ran for quite two miles without a word, until the heavy breathing of the clergyman brought Pierre up suddenly.
“You do not run well,” he said; “you do not run with the whole body. You know so little. Did you ever think how much such men as Jacques Parfaite know? The earth they read like a book, the sky like an animal's ways, and a man's face like—like the writing on the wall.” ”

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

“ You have no message—no real message—to give us; down in your heart you are not even sure of yourself.”
Sherburne sighed. “I'm of no use,” he said. “I'll get out. I'm no good at all.”
Pierre's eyes glistened. He remembered how, the day before, this youth had said hot words about his card-playing; had called him—in effect—a thief; had treated him as an inferior, as became one who was of St. Augustine's, Canterbury.
“It is the great thing to be free,” Pierre said, “that no man shall look for this or that of you. Just to do as far as you feel, as far as you are sure—that is the best. ”

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

“ The hood was left behind at Fort O'Glory, where it provoked the derision of the Methodist missionary who followed him; the sermon-case stayed at Fort O'Battle; and at last the surplice itself was put by at the Company's post at Yellow Quill. He was too excited and in earnest at first to see the effect of his ministrations, but there came slowly over him the knowledge that he was talking into space. He felt something returning on him out of the air into which he talked, and buffeting him. It was the Spirit of the North, in which lives the terror, the large heart of things, the soul of the past. ”

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

“ There is something in the world greater than the creeds and the book of the Mass. To be free and to enjoy, that is the thing. Never before have you felt what you feel here now. And I will show you more. I will teach you how to know, I will lead you through all the north and make you to understand the big things of life. ”

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

“ There is a man whose life I can ruin. If you win I promise to leave him safe; and to go out of the far north for ever, to go back to Quebec”—he had a kind of gaming fever in his veins.—“If I win, you give up the Church, leaving behind the prayer-book, the Bible and all, coming with me to do what I shall tell you, for the passing of twelve moons. ”

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

“ But Pierre shook his head.
“There is nothing,” he said, “nothing;” yet he knew that Sherburne was looking upon the men of judgment of the Kimash Hills, the sleepers. He looked round, half fearfully, for if here were those great children of the ages, where was the keeper of the house, the Red Patrol? ”

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

“ Even the women, though they cry sometimes when you sing-song the prayers, go on just the same when the little 'bless-you' is over. Why? Most of them know a better thing than you tell them. Here is the truth: you are little—eh, so very little. ”

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