The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Volume 3
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Gilbert Parker
Gilbert Parker (1862–1932), also credited as Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet, was a Canadian novelist and British politician. His initial career was in education, working in various schools as a teacher and lecturer. He then traveled abroad to Australia where he became an editor at the Sydney Morning Herald. He expanded his writing to include long-form works such as romance fiction. Some of his most notable titles include Pierre and his People (1892), The Seats of the Mighty and The Battle of the Strong.
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The Battle of the Strong - Gilbert Parker
THE BATTLE OF THE STRONG: A ROMANCE OF TWO KINGDOMS — VOLUME 3
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Gilbert Parker
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 3.: CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Volume 3
By
Gilbert Parker
The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Volume 3
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First published circa 1932
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VOLUME 3.: CHAPTER XVI
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THE NIGHT AND MORNING AFTER Guida’s marriage came and went. The day drew on to the hour fixed for the going of the Narcissus. Guida had worked all forenoon with a feverish unrest, not trusting herself, though the temptation was sore, to go where she might see Philip’s vessel lying in the tide-way. She had resolved that only at the moment fixed for sailing would she go to the shore; yet from her kitchen door she could see a wide acreage of blue water and a perfect sky; and out there was Noirmont Point, round which her husband’s ship would go, and be lost to her vision thereafter.
The day wore on. She got her grandfather’s dinner, saw him bestowed in the great arm-chair for his afternoon sleep, and, when her household work was done, settled herself at the spinning wheel.
The old man loved to have her spin and sing as he drowsed. To-day his eyes had followed her everywhere. He could not have told why it was, but somehow all at once he seemed to deeply realise her—her beauty, the joy of this innocent living intelligence moving through his home. She had always been necessary to him, but he had taken her presence as a matter of course. She had always been to him the most wonderful child ever given to comfort an old man’s life, but now as he abstractedly took a pinch of snuff from the silver box and then forgot to put it to his nose, he seemed suddenly to get that clearness of sight, that perspective, from which he could see her as she really was. He took another pinch of snuff, and again forgot to put it to his nose, but brushed imaginary dust from his coat, as was his wont, and whispered to himself:
Why now, why now, I had not thought she was so much a woman. Flowers of the sea, but what eyes, what carriage, and what an air! I had not thought—h’m—blind old bat that I am—I had not thought she was grown such a lady. It was only yesterday, surely but yesterday, since I rocked her to sleep. Francois de Mauprat
—he shook his head at himself—you are growing old. Let me see—why, yes, she was born the day I sold the blue enamelled timepiece to his Highness the Duc de Mauban. The Duc was but putting the watch to his ear when a message comes to say the child there is born. ‘Good,’ says the Duc de Mauban, when he hears, ‘give me the honour, de Mauprat,’ says he, ‘for the sake of old days in France, to offer a name to the brave innocent—for the sake of old associations,’ says de Mauban. ‘You knew my wife, de Mauprat,’ says he; ‘you knew the Duchesse Guida-Guidabaldine. She’s been gone these ten years, alas! You were with me when we were married, de Mauprat,’ says the Duc; ‘I should care to return the compliment if you will allow me to offer a name, eh?’ ‘Duc,’ said I, ‘there is no honour I more desire for my grandchild.’ ‘Then let the name of Guidabaldine be somewhere among others she will carry, and—and I’ll not forget her, de Mauprat, I’ll not forget her.’… Eh, eh, I wonder—I wonder if he has forgotten the little Guidabaldine there? He sent her a golden cup for the christening, but I wonder— I wonder—if he has forgotten her since? So quick of tongue, so bright of eye, so light of foot, so sweet a face—if one could but be always young! When her grandmother, my wife, my Julie, when she was young—ah, she was fair, fairer than Guida, but not so tall—not quite so tall. Ah! . . .
He was slipping away into sleep when he realised that