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A Romany of the Snows, Complete
The novel explores themes of love, loyalty, and the human experience as it follows Pierre, a half-breed gambler and adventurer, along with his colorful allies, as they navigate life and its challenges in the harsh Northern landscape.
"A Romany of the Snows, Complete" by Gilbert Parker is a novel. The novel explores themes of love, loyalty, and the human experience as it follows Pierre, a half-breed gambler and adventurer, along with his colorful allies, as they navigate life and its challenges in the harsh Northern landscape.
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“Here now, Trader; aisy, aisy! Quicksands I’ve seen along the sayshore, and up to me half-ways I’ve been in wan, wid a double-and-twist in the rope to pull me out; but a suckin’ sand in the open plain—aw, Trader, aw! the like o’ that niver a bit saw I.”
So said Macavoy the giant, when the thing was talked of in his presence.
“Well, I tell you it’s true, and they’re not three miles from Fort O’Glory. The Company’s—[Hudson’s Bay Company]—men don’t talk about it—what’s the use! Travellers are few that way, and you can’t get the Indians within miles of them. Pretty Pierre knows all about them—better than anyone else almost. He’ll stand by me in it—eh, Pierre?”
Pierre, the half-breed gambler and adventurer, took no notice, and was silent for a time, intent on his cigarette; and in the pause Mowley the trapper said: “Pierre’s gone back on you, Trader. P’r’aps ye haven’t paid him for the last lie. I go one better, you stand by me—my treat—that’s the game!”
“Aw, the like o’ that,” added Macavoy reproachfully. “Aw, yer tongue to the roof o’ yer mouth, Mowley. Liars all men may be, but that’s wid wimmin or landlords. But, Pierre, aff another man’s bat like that—aw, Mowley, fill your mouth wid the bowl o’ yer pipe.”
Contents
- 01Introduction
- 02Across the Jumping Sandhills
- 03A Lovely Bully
- 04The Filibuster
- 05The Gift of the Simple King
- 06Malachi
- 07The Lake of the Great Slave
- 08The Red Patrol
- 09The Going of the White Swan
- 10“Why don’t she come back, father?”
- 11At Bamber’s Boom
- 12The Bridge House
- 13The Epaulettes
- 14The House with the Broken Shutter
- 15The Finding of Fingall
- 16“Fingall! Fingall!—Oh, Fingall!”
- 17Three Commandments in the Vulgar Tongue
- 18Little Babiche
- 19At Point O’ Bugles
- 20“John York, John York, where art thou gone, John York?”
- 21The Spoil of the Puma
- 22The Trail of the Sun Dogs
- 23The Pilot of Belle Amour
- 24The Cruise of the “Ninety-Nine”
- 25I. The Search
- 26Romany of the Snows
- 27I
- 28The Plunderer
About this edition
- Author
- Gilbert Parker
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Introductory: no background needed
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 179 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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