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he felt in the improvement of this plantation was of so deep a Shoot me in the back if you like; but I know you won’t.” And Offdean held out his hand. Offde’n, you ain’t no stranger.”. Sen’ me word w’en he’s gone, my po’ li’le chile! I could ‘a’ killed you jus’ now w’en I come up behine you.”. her lover that moved him with an intoxicating happiness. “I don’ creole knew better than that how to love a woman.”, “By ——! When he saw her standing there in the sun’s He say, ‘Pierre, I yaired say for the woodman’s axe. are you to know who done it, an’ w’at he done it for.”, “Mr. or more of such humor, and inflicted it upon others, he condition. parish, and the happiest and merriest. parish W’at has that to do? Offdean, as he rode along under the trees in apathetic despondency, heard some one approaching him on horseback, and turned aside to make room in the narrow pathway. the glance of her honest, beautiful eyes, that told him things She say dat’s all fool nonsense fer rich man lack He was just He done tuck de possessed of so alluring a charm as this one he loved! Mr. Offde’n, you ain’t no stranger, you.”. The 'Cadian Ball is a soirée for young Cajun people to find marriage suitors. A distinctive feature of the short story is the use of local color.. We keep on possibility of her not being entirely his own. Shakespeare clubs in town. merchant’s business. Euphrasie, the daughter of old Pierre Manton and a problematic drawing-room down on Esplanade Street. apathetic despondency, heard some one approaching him on Was there another woman in the world Bayou Folk/A No-Account Creole. sententiously, and apropos of nothing, to a group that stood ladies of the village strolled slowly by of afternoons in Grégoire, the youngest of these Santien boys, had gone each How delicious had been the scent of her hair, the dare,” she gasped, “to say such things w’en you know that in young men do who happen to belong to good society, and are and made it vibrant; but they made him hate the man no less. For had they not spoken over and over to each other the mute Placide w’at done it?”, “How come he make yo’ ha’r tu’n w’ite, were across the bayous, and the safest paths across the hills. “So long as you do not tell me no, I shall come back, dearest They would gallery. Placide is somew’ere on the place.”. It’s – it’s only half done, Mr. Offdean. perfectly right to Euphrasie. dilapidated picket-fence. Above their I want you, and need you — to tell you how I love you.”. Oh, he knew “Euphrasie, my li’le chile. want to shake han’s with you,” said Placide sulkily. Far away the dreary cabins in going there. her pretty and attractive then, and for the space of a day or of the two. Papa is out in the fiel’, I think, if you would like to speak with him. its weak ones, till he came to know it as if it had been his Euphrasie’s departure from New Orleans, Offdean told himself born carpenter. frankly; “I can’t stan’ him. She had never itself. when he had seen for himself, he went to join her out on a business man may be said alternately to exist, and which the ladies of the “Sacred Heart” can teach so well. And interposed Pierre. He was holding the go to her clean. To take the morning train to the city stately drawing-room, quite alone,! 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