The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-09-19

! am net proud nor unduly insistent
up N my rights. There was plenty of
70 ~ and ! willingly abandoned Al
% OF morc to her. exclasiycsa6e.
~ Hhe apef Of -A.psnAH hoSse, or
Iesher eaNn4aI coufronted.. smother
Iema'e. a hnxom set
that describes her in . word.
Squareset as to her bare feet that
did not peep coyly," bat thrnet
themselves boldly forth from beneath
her short cotton shirt, squareset ~ to
her ample hips and he broad shoulders,
squaieset as 10 her eyes that looked
squarely into mine with wholly super
fiuous sterness, squareset even in
voice as following her response to my
politest ''Bonjours Madame" she de-
mands ''Que roule- rous M'sieur ?
M'sieur Victor Rigand ? Cest lei entrez.
Passe- par lei a cette chambre que rous
royce Ia bas' | passed as directed in
quite as much tribulation as when
avoided the acquaintance of the COW,
and wishing heartily shat | had the
same margin of space to go on. Ar
rived "a cette chombre la bds' enter
with some trepidation, for each suc-
ceeding creature that / had encounter
in this singular habitation, seems more
formidable than the last. | reason
''If the females. those of the tender
hearted. peace loving, gentle sex are
here SO angry-eyed and peremtory.
what should | expect from the mascn-
line. the more combative, the recalci-
~trative sex !? Surely, none but . very
desperate bull indeed, . very bull of
Bashan could be a mate for q COW of
SO decided character "a you, and for
the sQuareset matron who but another
Boanerges could be her complement" ?
The room was ~unoccupied, but direct
ly through one of the doors came soft
~ with a slow, timid step and ..depre-
Gator, manner a slender little man.
who as he approached, raised q slen-
hand, and took from his head a broad
b: immed palmetto hat. Presenting
the other hand in welcome he babe me
good morning in a soft low voice, look
ing shyly at me from his dark brown,
dreamy. h~esitating eyes. The world is
full of cGntrasts-it would be q very
tame HOMOGENEOUS world were it other
wise, but seldom have ] seer one more
striking or complete than this, of the
masculine woman and the feminine
mau.
No need to ask if this was the man /
sought. He was by many yea to
yonng. l asked again however for
"M'sieur Rigand,n ever in French, for
he who on Grand Isle whistles to talk
to the inhabitants with the certainty
of being understood must talk French
and my soft-voiced companion assured
me that he would come very oon
Naturally, while waiting / inspected
my surroundings, for it is not every
day in this new land of n~ever-ceasing
destruction and reconstruction. Aneri-
ca, that one enters a house built at
the time that our great grand-fatners
were babies.
1t was a law-studded ana not large
apartment. Time and generations of
children have knocked great patches
of the tough white plaster from the
walls, exposing the bloo1-red bricks
and the (still sound) cypress posts of
the period when Louisiana was a
French colony.
A high-shelved wooden mantle with
old, old fashioned bead-work and
m~ouldings, painted black. No furni-
ture worthy Of the name-two or three
rough benches, and as many raw hide
chairs, but on the walls in striking
and incongruous contrast with the sur
rounding baroness Is a series of finely
executed colors prints of French origin.
The subjects, or rather tile subject for
they are all Of the same tenor, is the
great battles of antiquity, Alexander's
Hannibal's, Ceasas's Artilla's. Below
each picture is printed in French and
Latin, a highly dedactic legend appro-
pirate to the scene portrayed.
While | am still occupied with this
unexpected art collection. enters at
last M. V. Rigand presenting yet an
other type of the Grand Islander.
Barefoot like the bony COW and the
stern-eyed matron; tall angular, pri-
mitive, and clearly unsophisticated he
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