New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-25
MADAME DELICIEUSE.
By GEORGE ", CABLE,

just adjoining tho old Cafe de Poeeie 0,
the corner stood the little One-stOYy, yellO y
washed tenement of DR.. Messy, with il
two glass doors protected By batten shut
tiers, and it's low, weed grown tile roo
sloping out over the sidewalk. You wer
very likely ~ find the doctor in. for he wal
q great student and rather negligent Of hi
business-as business. He was . small
sedate, Creole gentleman of thirty or more
with face and manner that provoked in
slant admiration. He would receive YOU
! be you who you may-in . mild, candid
manner, looking into your face with hif
deep blue eyes and reassuring you with !
modest, amlable smile, very sweet and rare
| on mans mouth
To be frank. the doctors little establish.
| ment was dusty 0nd disorderly-very. l,
was curious to SEQ the jars and Jars and
| jars. In them were serpents and hideOus
fishes and precious specimens of many
| sorts. There were stuffed birds on broken
| perches, and dried lizards and eeis and lit
tie alligatOrs and old skulls with their
| crowns sawed off, and ten thousand odd
scraps OF writing paper strewn with crumbs
OF lonely lunches and interspersed with
long lost spatulas and rust eaten lancets.
All New Orleans, at least all Creole New
orleans, knew, and yet did not know, the
dear little doctor. 10 gentle, 80 kind. 90
skilltul, SO patient, so lenient: 80 careless OF
the rich and SO attentive to the poor: man,
all in all, such a., should YOU once love
him, you would love him forever. So very
learned, too, but with apparently no idea Of
how TO show himself to his social profit
two features much more smiled at than re :
spected, not to cay admired, by people re
mote fror the seats Of learning, and spend
ing most Of their esteem upon animal hero
isms and exterior display.
ALAS" said hia veaIthv aooua;pt,,cs.
what . pity; when he might a. well be
rich
Eyes, his father has plenty"
Certainly. and gives it freely: but intends
his son shall see none of it,
His son. You dare not 80 much a. men
ton him"
well, we'll, how strange: But they can
never agree-not even upon their name
Is not that droli!-A man named General
'ili.vieencio, and his son. DR.. Mossy.'
"Oh, that is nothing: it il only that the
doctor drops the dc JMicicencio''
"Orops the dc |itliricenciO.' but I think
the dc ltHiricencio drops hin, no, ho, no.
diable,'
Next to the residence OF good DR.. Mo.sy
lowered the narrow, red-brick front man
sion OF young Nine. Delicieuse, firm friend
at once and always OF those two antipodes.
General Nlllivicencio and DR.. Mossy. Its
dark-covered carriage way was ever rumb-
ling, and, with nightfall, its drawing rooms
always sent forth 4 luxuriou. light from the
iace-curtained windows of the second story
balconies.
1t was one Of the sights of the rue
Royale to zee by night its tall. narrow out
line reaching up toward the stals, with all
its windows aglOw
The Madame had had some tastes of hu
man experience; had been betrothed at
sixteen Ito man che did not love, "being
at that time fool" as she said); one sum
mer day at noon had been q bride, and at
sundown-e widow. Accidental discharge
of tipsy bridegrooms own pistol. Pass
her, Q special detestation of quarrels and
weapons.
The little maidens whom poor pareutaZe
has doomed to sit upon street door-sills and