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Date Posted: 17:50:23 08/21/09 Fri
Author: Mahri (In Farmville :-))
Subject: Mermaid in a Bowl of Tears, Chapter 51

The White Doe

'Pamela, under stern orders from both Father Gilles and Jamie, had been two days in bed.'

Pamela is feeling restless and decides to take a walk. On her way out she glimpses her reflection in the water basin and remembers these lines from Tennyson's 'The Lady of Shallot'.
The mirror crack'd from side to side,
The curse is come upon me, cried
The Lady of Shallot.'
Pamela feels cursed or punished for the choices she has made.

Walking through the abbey passageways, Pamela sees Jamie standing along the river bank, feeding a white doe.

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They find shelter and Jamie shares the story of the white doe, who was named after the first child born in America, Virginia Dare and the Indian legend about the child.
Is there a lesson or point Jamie is trying to get across to Pamela with this story? Any significance to recent or current times or is he simply comforting her by talking and telling a story?

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They speak a bit of their shared past, of the first time Jamie came here to this Abbey on the island and his feeling of being alone and forgotten in his illness.
'Father Lawrence kept me here until he convinced me that none of us are ever, even in the darkest hours of our lives, alone. That to believe we were alone was a transgression against God and against those who loved us.'
Pamela asks him if he still believes that - 'Some nights I do.'

'When the dark night seems endless....'
'Remember me.'

Posting early tonight - moving the girl into the dorm bright and early tomorrow. Have a great weekend Shammies!

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