liddall

Updated: June 21, 2025

In time the man goes to pieces. But before that comes he is apt to do strange things. Eh-so!" He sat down, and, with his finger, wrote musingly in the dust upon the table. Liddall looked keenly at him, and replied more brusquely than he felt: "Do you think it fair to stay fair to her?" "What if I should take her with me?" Pierre flashed a keen, searching look after the words.

Gilbert Parker - Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People", v5

Without a word Liddall turned back, threw a saddle on another horse, and led it out quickly. "Which way?" he asked; "and where shall I find the horses?" "West to the mountains. The horses you will find at Tete Blanche Hill, if we get there. If not, there is money under the white pine at my cottage. Goodbye!" They galloped away.

Gilbert Parker - Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People"

Pierre was sure, before Liddall, the surveyor, told him, that a movement was apace to give him trouble possibly fatal. "You had better go," said Liddall. "There's no use tempting Providence." "They are tempting the devil," was the cool reply; "and that is not all joy, as you shall see." He stayed. For a time there was no demonstration on either side.

Gilbert Parker - Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People", v5

There is a kind of corrosion which eats the granite out of the blood, and leaves fever. "What is the worst thing that can happen a man, eh?" he said to Liddall one day, after having spent a few minutes with Kitty Cline. Liddall was an honest man. He knew the world tolerably well. In writing once to his partner in Montreal he had spoken of Pierre as "an admirable, interesting scoundrel."

Gilbert Parker - Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People", v5

"Yes, Pierre," she cried, a mad light in her face, "I have killed men too for you." Together they ran down the hillside, and made for the stables of the Fort. People were hurrying through the long street of the town, and torches were burning, but they came by a roundabout to the stables safely. Pierre was about to enter, when a man came out. It was Liddall.

Gilbert Parker - Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People"

Liddall looked at him long, and then said: "To stand between two fires." Pierre smiled: it was an answer after his own heart. Liddall remembered it very well in the future. "What is the thing to do in such a case?" Pierre asked. "It is not good to stand still." "But what if you are stunned, or do not care?" "You should care. It is not wise to strain a situation."

Gilbert Parker - Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People", v5