They stood a moment before the picture together, the husband and wife. They were tired with the evening’s talk, and a sight of this refreshed them both and gave the promise of future joy.
The “ladye of high degree,” passing through that hall, having purposely come by another route from the cloak room rather than through the study, saw them standing also, and understood—that she did not understand, and went out into the night with a lonely longing for something, she knew not what.
As the two stood together the husband said: “Do you know, dear, that picture has made the turning point in my life. Ever since it came in here I have felt that his presence was with me wherever I went. And I have you to thank for it all. And through it I have gained you, this richest, sweetest blessing of my life. Do you know, I found a verse in my Bible to-day that it seems to me fits me and that picture. It is this: ‘The angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them.’ ”
GABRIEL THE ACADIAN
BY
EDITH M. NICHOLL BOWYER
| LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | ||
| “ ‘It is a heretic name!’ exclaimed Le Loutre” | [3] | |
| “Suddenly the girl raised her head” | [27] | |
| “M. l’Abbé commands” | [42] | |
| “But Gabriel had neither eyes nor ears for the priest” | [69] | |
| “ ‘Wild Deer; tell Wild Deer’ ” | [82] | |
| “Far away at the mouth of the inlet . . . lay three small ships” | [91] | |
| “ ‘And thou wilt make me a traitor too!’ he cried” | [120] | |
| “They sat down side by side before the empty hearth” | [131] | |