Does it seem reasonable that Evangeline felt Gabriel was near?  Explain and learn lines 852-4.  Explain 858.  Why Eden of Louisiana?  Has Father Felician given up to despair on any occasion?  What kept him from despairing?  Had he despaired how would it have affected Evangeline and the story?  Note scene in lines 864-868.  Does the author here give a picture of nature in harmony with a condition of mind?  Where?  Find like treatment in this section.  The mocking bird here reminds one of what bird in another scene?  Does each seem an appropriate part of the picture?  What was the prelude?  Why were their hearts moved with emotion?

SEC.  III.

Meeting Basil.  Disappointment.

Lesson XIX, Lines 888-958.

Find subject and predicate of first sentence.  Describe house and surroundings.  Would flowers grow thus in Acadia?  What was love’s symbol?  Why sea of flowers?  Explain 904-910.  Why surf?  Contrast Basil’s home in Grand Pre and the one here.  Explain lines 933.  Was Basil’s way of breaking the news about Gabriel a good one?  Why should she be deeply disappointed?  Did Gabriel bear his disappointment as did Evangeline?  What was the result of Evangeline’s longing?  Of Gabriel’s?  Why a fugitive lover?  Why fates and streams against him?  What did Basil mean line 958?

Re-union and Feast.

Lesson XX, Lines 959-1020.

Note here change of scene.  Is it from pathos to humor or from humor to pathos?  What do you gather from lines 959-960 and 964-965?  From 961-2?  Why should they marvel?  Compare conditions of life in Acadia and in Louisiana.  What familiar fact does Basil show, line 982?  Why refer to King George?  Note the very attractive picture Basil draws—­almost a picture of Eden.  Was there an if about it, a final word that quite changed the shading of the picture?  Is it usually thus?  Were the Acadians naturally light-hearted?

Despair.  Hope.  On Again.

Lesson XXI, Lines 1021-1077.

What effect had this scene on Evangeline?  Why should she hear the sounds of the sea?  Why desire to leave the merriment?  Explain 1028-1038.  Stars are here spoken of as God’s thoughts—­what else has the author called them?  Explain 1041-1044.  Was the evening in harmony with Evangeline’s mood?  Why was it the oaks whispered “Patience” and not the beeches or other trees?  Explain 1059-1061.  Who were going in quest of Gabriel?  Explain references of “Prodigal Son” and “Foolish Virgin” and apply.  How was Gabriel blown by fate like the dead leaf?  How long before they found traces of Gabriel?  What traces?  What news finally?  Where were they now?

SEC.  IV.

The Great West.  The Shawnee.  Confidences.

Lesson XXII, lines 1078-1164.