Gilbert Parker

“ But the longest waiting must end. It came on the evening of the very day that the Seigneur of Rozel went to Angèle's father and bluntly told him he was ready to forego all Norman-Jersey prejudice against the French and the Huguenot religion, and take Angèle to wife without penny or estate. ”

“ Religion to him was a dull recreation invented chiefly for women.
She became plain enough now. "’Tis no images nor religion that stands between us," she answered, "though they might well do so. It is that I do not love you, Monsieur of Rozel."
His face, which had slowly clouded, suddenly cleared.
"Love! Love!" He laughed good-humoredly. "Love comes, I'm told, with marriage. But we can do well enough without fugling on that pipe. Come, come! dost think I'm not a proper man and a gentleman? ”

“ This gave her fresh interest in the eyes of the serfs and sailors and their women folk, who at first were not inclined towards the Huguenot maiden, partly because she was French, and partly because she was not a Catholic. But even these, when they saw that she never talked religion to them, that she was fast learning to speak their own homely patois, and that in the sickness of their children she was untiring in her kindness, forgave the austerity of the gloomy-browed old man her father, who spoke to them distantly, or never spoke at all ”

“ II Meanwhile Angèle had gone through many phases of alternate hope and despair. She knew that the Comte de Montgomery was dead, and a rumor, carried by refugees, had reached her that de la Forêt was with him to the end. ”

“ After greeting and compliment, none too finely put, but more generous than fitted with Jersey parsimony, the Gentleman of Rozel came at once to the point.
"My name is none too bad," said he—"Raoul Lempriêre, of the Lempriêres that have been here since Rollo ruled in Normandy. My estate is none worse than any in the whole islands; I have more horses and dogs than any gentleman of my acres ”