Old Creole Days

d up in her petticoat, and one day-maybe a fortnight after her tearful interview with Père Jerome-she found it necessary to get one of these changed into small money. She was in the Rue Tou

-"U.L. Vignevielle's," according to a larger inscription which met her eyes as she ventured in. Behind the counter, exchanging some last words with a busy-mannered man outside, who, in withdrawing, seemed bent on running over Madame Delphine, stood the man in blue cottonade, whom she had met in Père Jerom

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had an uncommonly sweet voice, and it seemed so to strike Monsieur Vignevielle. He spoke to her once or twice more, as he waite

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re; he had such an overflowing heart. "Madame Carraze," said Monsieur Vignevielle, "doze kine of note wad you 'an' me juz now is bein' contrefit. You muz tek kyah from doze kine of note. Y

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d gave no sign of hearing Madame Delphine's voice. She asked a second time, with like resu

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but extending his palm with a show of frankness, and assuming a look of benignant patience,

nd as he turned away again with a manner suggestive of finality, Madame Delphine found no choice

little father on the street a few days later, "you told the truth that day in you

him your banker, al

ied, with more happiness in her eyes tha

your daughter's guardian; for myself, being a priest, it wou

face grew still br

my mind,"

vely without excuse. But at length, one day in May, 1822, in a small private office behind Monsieur Vignevielle's banking-room,-he sitting beside a table, and she, more timid a

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re-assurance; but her eyes

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mile-she went very shortly-

-which he had laid down upon Madame Delphine's entrance. His eyes fell upon a paragraph which had previously escaped his

which lay in the other, "it is completed. You could retire, from your business any day inside of six hours without loss to an

tain vessel of the navy had returned from a cruise in the Gulf of Mexico and Straits of Florida, where she had done valuable service against the pira

oise" repeated Jean Thom

ted," said Mons