Saturday, August 10, 2013

Disambiguation

     Evangeline was a young girl who lived with her grandfather in the French village of Grand Pre.  She was very beautiful and fair and all the young men in the village worshipped her, but only Gabriel Lajeunesse, the son of Basil the village blacksmith, was welcome.  They had been brought up together and as children they had been schooled by Father Felician, the town priest.
    One day the village and all its belongings were taken away to a foreign land.  Gabriel and Evangeline were parted and, to add to the hardship, Benedict Bellefontaine died of a broken heart at leaving his beloved home.  During the journey, Evangeline and Gabriel never saw each other.
    After many years of searching for her beloved Gabriel, Evangeline became a Sister.  One day during a dreadful epidemic of fever, Evangeline was caring for the sick when all at once she saw the dying form of Gabriel. She went to him and laid his head on her lap.  Gabriel opened his eyes and tried to speak her name and then he died.  Evangeline looked up with tears in her eyes and said "Oh Lord, I thank thee."
                                           "The Great Upheaval"      
                                    

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