Contents

Chapter   Page
 
I. Paul Grande’s Home-coming to Grand Pré 1
 
II. Grûl’s Warning 11
 
III. Charms and Counter-charms 15
 
IV. “Habet!” 23
 
V. The Black Abbé Defers 31
 
VI. A New England Englishman 36
 
VII. Guard! 43
 
VIII. The Moon in the Apple-bough 50
 
IX. In Sleep a King; but Waking, no such Matter 58
 
X. A Grand Pré Morning 66
 
XI. Father Fafard 77
 
XII. Le Fûret at the Ferry 87
 
XIII. Unwilling to be Wise 94
 
XIV. Love Me, Love My Dog 100
 
XV. Ashes as it were Bread 105
 
XVI. The Way of a Maid 112
 
XVII. Memory is a Child 117
 
XVIII. For a Little Summer’s Sleep 125
 
XIX. The Borderland of Life 135
 
XX. But Mad Nor-nor-west 142
 
XXI. Beauséjour, and After 149
 
XXII. Grûl’s Case 156
 
XXIII. At Gaspereau Lower Ford 161
 
XXIV. “If you love me, leave me” 168
 
XXV. Over Gaspereau Ridge 177
 
XXVI. The Chapel Prison 182
 
XXVII. Dead Days and Withered Dreams 191
 
XXVIII. The Ships of her Exile 200
 
XXIX. The Hour of her Desolation 208
 
XXX. A Woman’s Privilege 218
 
XXXI. Young Will and Old Wisdom 229
 
XXXII. Aboard the “Good Hope” 238
 
XXXIII. The Divine Right of Queens 246
 
XXXIV. The Soul’s Supremer Sense 254
 
XXXV. The Court in the Cabin 260
 
XXXVI. Sword and Silk 268
 
XXXVII. Fire in Ice 279
 
XXXVIII. Of Long Felicity Brief Word 285
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