Her father, Henry Evans, has many responsibilities as a judge, colonel of the militia, and township treasurer, leaving him little time for working on the farm where he prefers to spend his time. With Elizabeth's being seventeen years of age, her mother feels it is time for her daughter to give up her interest in farming and start to focus on developing more womanly accomplishments and to think of marriage. She spends a lot of her time working alongside Sadie, the elderly slave woman who has belonged to her mother's family since her mother was a young girl. Jefferson following a grouse through thick woods, carrying a gun.Įlizabeth Evans loves the life she has, taking care of her cows, helping with the gardening, planting, haying, and the apple orchard of her father's successful farm in the Annapolis Valley. I reasoned that their place was so far from anywhere no one else would notice it. Perhaps I should forget I'd ever met them and then they could go on living in their cabin for as long as they needed to. He would probably insist that they pack up and leave, I thought. My mind was like the clouds, racing before the wind. If they all left, I wondered, where did Marie-Madeleine come from and why were she and her father living in the woods behind our farm? I considered what Father would do if he knew about them. I thought about Marie-Madeleine and her father, remembering the conversations Father and I had had about the departure of the Acadian people. I worked beside Sadie tossing hay up onto the high-sided wagon where Mr. Volume XIV Number 21.June 13, 2008īy morning a strong west wind hurried little clouds across a brilliant blue sky.
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