The Flower of the Chapdelaines

ng he saw

and had come but a few steps down Royal, when, at the next corner belo

e collar and blue jacket as on the morning before, and carrying the same dr

who might be this lovely apparition. Of such patrician beauty, such elegance of form and bearing, such witchery of simple attire, and such un-Italian yet Latin type, in this antique Creole, modernly Italian

his own mortifying remembrance of one or two other-day lapses from the austerities of the old street--restrained him from a backward glanc

ay, unless seeing her had been his first, was to go one square farther on, for a look at the wreckers tearing dow

I think, Mr. Chester, notary

Evidently Mr. Geoffry Chester wa

card." He tendered it: "Marcel Castanado, Masques et C

neither notarial, neither of the law. Yet I must pay you for

were at a juncture where a fe

ot of the law I can

at case I must seek elsewhere." He wo

dvice do you wa

ter

miled: "Why, I'

dry? Black man? Secon'-han' book

santly, for I l

at old dome they are dim-olishing yonder, of the once state-house, previously Hotel St. Louis. I know. Twice a day you pass my shop. I

that's my limit. I've never

is done, since

udgment on a written page and

lue of the article is pronounce

. He spoke: "Why, then what advice do y

. But how to so nig-otiate that he s

" he mused. The hope came again that this unusual

, "I think we might construe it as legal, t

on--?" the cos

es, on the aut

author of a manuscr

er's success. You can ag

my counsel. When will

choose to leav

irm: "Sir, I cannot permit

ve a copy ty

I will tell you; to-night come at our parlor, over the shop. I will read yo

s--"my wife!" Then a shade of regret: "

im much to himself, he was aware that, while some Creoles grew rich, many of them, women, once rich, were being driven even to stand behind counters. Yet no such plight could he imagine of that bewildering y

Latin shrug--"that is

wife? She's not a talli

t the only way she can come down-stair' is backward. You'll see. Well,"--he waved--"till then--ah, a word: my close bargaining--I must expl

e shrewd: "Oh! is sh

ly said, "and two dip-end on the earni

gging indefinite postponement of the evening appointm