EBOOK PIERRE AND HIS PEOPLE, V5, PARKER ***
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PIERRE AND HIS PEOPLE
TALES OF THE FAR NORTH
By Gilbert Parker
Volume 5.
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.
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