Gilbert Vale is a newspaper editor. He’s a British immigrant who’s involved with labor rights activism and anti-racist causes. Early in the story, Matthias approaches Vale, hoping that Vale will publish his ideas about religion. Vale refuses, believing that Matthias is a lunatic. Some years later, Vale collaborates with Isabella Van Wagenen to publish a book about Matthias’s cult. Vale uncovers many hidden facts about the cult in his research, notably the sexually promiscuous behavior that went on. Vale also argues that Isabella Van Wagenen (the cult’s Black servant) was not responsible for the cult leaders’ actions, even though other leading cult members like Benjamin Folger publically blame Isabella Van Wagenen for many of the terrible things that happen in the cult.
Gilbert Vale Quotes in Kingdom of Matthias
The Kingdom of Matthias quotes below are all either spoken by Gilbert Vale or refer to Gilbert Vale . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Isabella confirmed all of [Vale’s] hunches about the Kingdom’s sexual arrangements, and much more besides. […] He was well aware that the black servant Isabella’s word, on its own, would not stand up against the Folgers’, given public prejudices. And so whenever possible, he supplemented her narrative with “white evidence” from his interviews and from the public record.
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Gilbert Vale Quotes in Kingdom of Matthias
The Kingdom of Matthias quotes below are all either spoken by Gilbert Vale or refer to Gilbert Vale . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Epilogue
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Isabella confirmed all of [Vale’s] hunches about the Kingdom’s sexual arrangements, and much more besides. […] He was well aware that the black servant Isabella’s word, on its own, would not stand up against the Folgers’, given public prejudices. And so whenever possible, he supplemented her narrative with “white evidence” from his interviews and from the public record.
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