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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-03-18
THIBODAUX, LNE SAMEDI, IS MARS 1893.

sarreta au seuil dune maison de
pauvre apparence situee i l'angle de
la petite rue Bourbon-le-C Chateau.
Au cinquieme etage de cette maison,
sous lie toit, il y await une mansarde
nue., etroite ct basse, don't le plafond.
forme de SOLVES vermoules, soutenaio
immed!atement les ardoises de Ia
couverture.
C'etait Ia demeure du lnendiant.
Les meubles Sc composaient dun
grabat ct dun petit coffre; mais pres
Gle la lucarne qui servait de fenetre,
une sorte de trophec contastait avec
lie miserable aspect de la piece. C'e-
talent d'abord deux epaulettes de
capitaiEe, en- or, surmontees dun
chapeau d'uniforne q cocarde tri-
colorr, CONNIE en- portaient les
officers infanterie sous Ia republi-
que.
Au-dessous une epee a coquille de
nacre etait suspendue entire deux
riches pistolets.
En- entrant dams sa retraite, le
mendiant ALA tout droit au coffre.
don't il fit jouer la forte serrure. lie
coffre contenait une somme assez
considerable en- diverses monnaies,
ct un portefeuille, sur la plaque d'a-
cier duquel etait grave un nom.
LIE negre ajouta d'abord a son
pecule la recolte de Ia journee, qul
etait bonne, puis il ouvrit vivement
lie portefeuile.
-Cest oien celia, dit-il apres avoir
parcouru quelques papiers F. A !!
ee sont les deux initiates.
Son emotion etait 81 vive Que ses
jambes fechissaient sous lie poids de
son corps. II Sc laissa tomber sur le
grabat.
-Apres avoir cherche patiemmenl
ct sans relache pendant vingt ans
murmura-til, aurais-je enfn trou-
We. :. Helas, ie me suis cru tant de
fois sur lie point de reussil 81 j'allais
me tromper encore
Sa tete s'affaissa sur ga poitrine !;
il demeura un instant immobile ct
CONNIE accahle sous lie poids dune
pense triste mais bientot 81 haute
taille Sc redressa ct son regard brilla
d'espoir.
Non, non dit-il, cette fois je ne
me trompe pas ! Dieu est bon.
Tout me dit que c'est ellie, ct mon
labeur touche son terme.
II Sc remit debout. Son noir vi
sage, don't les traits fortement carac-
terises respiraient la vigueur morale
ct la bonte, prirent une expression de
solennelle douleur, tandis quill s'icli-
matt respectueusement devant lie tro.
phee ct portrait les epaulettes dor
ses levres.
Ii resta longtemps ainsi, perdu
dams de lointains souvenirs puis
deux larmes s'echapperent de ses
yeux ct coulerent lentement SUI
rebene de sa joue.
--Maitre 4 moi dit il dune voiz
douce en- prenant involontairement le
ratols negre depuis longtemps ou
bile bon maitre a moi |!
Ces paroles semblerent eveiller en-
lui tout un passe d'amour il baiss
les epaulettes avec une sorte d.
transport.
-Tu es la-haut, pres de Dieu t,
me vols secria-til dune vol,
pleine de passion tn prizes pou
renfant qui ma plus de pere. Re
garde-moi, maitre, ct rejouis-toi
Ton serviteur a etc longtemps
tobeir, car il est fable ct n'avait riel
4ui put lie guider dams laccommplis
sement de sa tache, mais grace a
ciel, voici un indlce, ct ia dernier
volonte va etre entin accomplie
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-03-18
FEUILLETON
NLND|IIT IOIR
III
J0NQUILLE
suite

ii ne faut point que le lecteur Sc
meprenne. Ce joug etait bien reel.
Carral, en- etfet, await menti a
Xavier en- lui disant quill etait pauvre.
Soft que madame de Runlbrye lie
payat, soft quill cut retire bon fruit
de ses speculalions passees, il menait,
daEs lie monde, un train honorable ct
conforme a sa naissance pretendue.
II await fait une sorte de chemin.
Ce etat plus l',nconnu hesltant
entire une opscurite tranquille ct une
perileuse usurpation de nom il etait
gentihomme, on passait pour TIL, ce
qui est tout un, quand on ma point
de prejuges.
Or, $, les vrais gentlshommes item
nent ltur nobesse, quel ne doit pas
stre Pentetement DIES mobiles de fabri
que?
Et encore, les faux mobiles, demas-
ques, redevlennent bourgeois on Sc
moque deux un jour, puis on les
oublie.
Mais redevenir fills de negre, chan
ger ce nom bien sonnant de Carral
pour lie grotesque nom de Jonquille +!
c'etait la chose impossible, surtout 81
Ton fait la part de la surprenante ct
pu6rile vanite DIES hommes de couleur.
Ii Sc fit, entire nos dnux interlocu-
teurs, I'M long silence, apres lequel
Carral disslmulant sa rancune sous
une feinte hum;lite, reprit la parole
Maitresse, dit-il, jai eu tort, ct
je me repens. A l'avenir, je vous
obeirai sans murmures.
Men parlons plus, repondit Nine
de Rumbrye du bout des levres. Tu
es ur peu fou parfois, mails chacun a
ses defaults. Dis-moi rhistoire de
notre jeune homme.
Carral ne Sc le fit point repeter, ct
raconta tout ce qu'il savait de Xavier.
La marquise l'ecouta avec une extre-
me attention.
-Enfant trouve. ou perdu mur-
mura-t-elle quand il cut achieve; je
men doutais, mais je n'esperais pas
tout celia. Quelques louis tous les
mois | Jetes CONNIE une aum6ne
quelques louis don't il ne peut justifer
10 source l.. Nous lie lemons
Ellie demeura un instant pensive,
puts, levant tout q coup ses regards
sur Carral:
-Savez-vous, demanda-t-elle brus-
quement, pourquoi je veux ecarter ce
jeune homme
de ne me permets point de sur
prendre les 81 crets lie ma bonEe mai
tresse, repondit hypocritement Carral.
DE vous aurais cru plus clairvoy-
ant. Ce Xavier ose pretendrc q Ia
main de Mile lie Rumhrye.
--J 'avais oublie de vous lie dire.
-Et vous ne devinez pas lie reste ?
Carral appela sur son visage une
expression d'ignorance ct de curiosi-
t6.
Helene de Rumbrye, reprit la
marquise, est runilue he7tiere de
mon mari, ct mon mari a cinQ cent
mIiie francs de rentes.
-Magnifique fortune s'ecria le
mulatre, don't leil ieta un rapide
eclair.
La marquise continua
Alfred, le fills de mes premieres
noces, en- aurait eu une plus belle 81
Saint-Domingue. .Mais tout celia est
fni. Alfred, maintenant, possede a
peine une bourgeuise aisance
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Ne viendrez-vous point d lhotel
ce soir, Carral ? dit-ellc nous avons
reunion d'amis.
Carral baissa la tete dun air
sombre ct ne repondit point.
-Si vous venez, ajouta Ia mar
quise, vous ne vous Ell repentlrez
point. Je compte regaler mes hotes
de fhlstoire du muIatre Jonquille.
-Vous ne lie ferez pas secria
| Carral.
-Si fait
-Grace, madame !! -.
II s'etait jett a genoux mas
madame de Rumbrye, dormant
un dernier tour 4 son cachemire,
traversa la chambre de son pas lent
ct balance, ouvrit Ia porte ct dispa-
rut
Carral Sc reiressa ientemenf. Sa
face etait livide, son regard flse ct
sanglant.
| -Jonquille LIE mulatre Jonquille !!
n'aurai-je done jamais mon tour
dit-ii, dune voix creuse. Oh! 81
quelque jour l'occasion sc presente,
conme je me vengerai H..
Au moment OH Nine la maruuise
de kumbrye sortait de rallee, lie
mendiant, qui l'avait patlemment
attendue, Sc presenta de nouveau
devant ellie ct tendlt la main.
Encore ce noir ! dit-elIe avec
deg.ht.
Elle detourna la tete ct monta
dams sa voiture.
LIE negre ne Sc tint point pour
battu il s'approcha ct plongea un
long regard a rinterieur.
La figure de Ia marquise, sur la
quelle tombait d'aplomb un rsyon du
reverbere voisin, Sc distinguish par
faitenent.
! A Ia vue de cette audacieuse per-
sistance, ellie fronea lie sourcil ct fer
ma brusquement lie store.
LIE mendiant fit le tour de la vol
ture, ct vint Sc placer i l'autrc por-
i, there.
-Va-t'en i! s'ecria Nine de Rum
brye avec colere je ne dome jamais
aux noirs
Creole dit lie mendiant.
LIE laquais s'approcha ct demanda
les ordres dc madame Ia marquise.
LIE negre tendit loreilIe.
A lh6tel dit-elIe settlement.
LIE second store sc ferma. L'6qui.
page partit CONNIE un trait, au grand
trot de ses rapides chevaux.
A l'h6tel rensa le mendiant
reste seul quel hotel =? LIE s:en,
sans doute. Oh est-il !? ie lie sau-
raj, car il fact que jc la revoie. :.
Ellie lui RESEMBLE /! ce sont les
memes traites, avec des cheveux de
couleur diffarents. Et puis, ellie est
creole, puisqu'elle ne donne jamais
aux noirs | 81 c'etait ellie
CONNIE il prenait lentement Ia
route de ga retraite nocturne, il ape:
gut un objet blanc sous lie balloon,
il porte meme de la maison menblee
OH demeuraient Carral et Xavier.
revint sur ses pas ct ramassa 'objc
qui etait 4 terre.
C'etait un mouchoir de baptist,
brodee ct garni de dentelle, un mou
choir 81 fin quo pent falt entire
| dams une nOlX vide.
/ LIE mendiant lie dep'ia ct s'appro
cha du reverbere pour en- regarder |;
marque.
-C'est son mouchoir, disait-il ell
cherchant lie chitfre Voyons lie chif
fire J.. Precisement f. A! MOI
Dieu mon Dieu tant de circon
stances ne peuvent coInclder pa
hasard. :. C'est ellie Oh ! il
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L
vrait sur rue de Grenelle.
Les ecnssons marteies durant rere
republica'ne, n'avaient point etc re
tabIs, mais OH voyait encore aux
grands balloons de FER contourn6s le
dragon de Rumbrye ct le baton de
mrechal de France.
Cetsit, derriere son mur plein.
perez dun portal severe, un hotel de
, grand style avec larges d6gagemen
ct FACADE de palais.
Pour arriver 4 la porte principale,
Il failait gravir un haut perron cir
cuIaire, don't les degrees de marbre
supportaient tout un jardin de faience
normande, emaile de bellies fleurs.
Ce soir, c'etait fete a l'h0tel. lie
vestibule etait illumine. Des laquais
en- livree montaient ct descendaient
sans hruit, CONNIE font les Wallets de
bonne maison, les marches tapissees
du grand escalier.
Du dehors, les SALES ct galleries
paraissaient vivement eclairees.
Ca ct Ia, on apercevait, derriere
quelqne ridear entr'ouvert, les cor.
nj, hes scuiptees du lambris, ou le
cadre dore dun seculaire portrait de
famille. Les lnstres etincelaient d
travers lie gaz ct la sole, ct leurs
prismes de cristal jetaient aux murs
des maisons voisines de fu.itifs re-
flets.
On voyait tout celia, mais seule-
ment lorsque la porte cochere ouvr,it
ses deux battants pour donner
passage 4 queIque caleche arrnoir6e.
L'equipage passee, la porte Sc re-
fermait +; on ne voyail plus rien.
Car IL beau monde ne - montre
qu'un coin de ses joies. Cest seule-
ment a Ia derobec que le profane
peut percer dun furiif ct curieux
coup d Gii ie mystere de ces mobiles
magniticences.
Ii y await foule aux abords de
Ph6tel dies gueux ct des badauds ;
les gueux etalent encore fort nom
breux en- 1917 81 pres de la revolu-
ton ct des queries de l'empire les
badauds sont innombrables en- tout
temps.
Chaque fois que la porte cochere SOU
vrait, cinquante regards avides, sc.
lancaient, traversalent la cour, ct
p.ongeaient CONNIE autant de fieches
dams les profondeur du vestibule.
De heaux diamants disait Pun
en- voyant une belle dame 'descendre
de voiture.
-C'est du faux +! repondait IN
autre en- haussant les epau'es
-Quel TENT frais repetait popti-
miste.
-Cest du farl repIiquait le ja-
loux.
Puts les lourds battants Sc reioig
naient bruyamment ct tout lie monde
Sc talsait.
Parfois quelques ap0tres d'esta-
minet passaient la panse pleine, s'ar-
retaient ct grognaient des lieux CON-
nuns sur rinsoIence des riches. Ces
messieurs ne donnent jama;s que celia
aux pausres.
Puis ills retournaient dams ieurs
tabagies boire la sante de ceux qui
ont faim.
| Les palais, au moins, sont gene
reux. En- ce steele nous avons WI ce
que vaut lie regne DIES bouges.
Vers onze heures la scene s'anima
Les voitures Sc succedaient avec une
ttlle radidite, que lie suisse dut tenir la
porte grande ouverte. Les badauds
regarderent alors tout i leur alse. ct,
contents de leur soir6e, regagnerent
leur Cite en- reprochant au ciel
de ne leur avoir point dome
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the table, and with DOUBT ana nope palpl-
tating in my heart looked in the glass. I
could scarcely believe that the reflection
saw there was my own. To be sure, ] was
unused to the luxury OF mirrors. and now
for the first time perhaps looked at myself
with interest; still had seen my face often
enough to believe that all the taunts it
drew from the malicious wits of Ferryboat
Stairs were merited. But now, as gazed
in the glass, was almost frightened by the
change made in my appearance by beau
tiful dress, the care | had bestowed upon
my hair and still more by the expression OF
eager hope which animated my features It
seemed to me that was no longer ugly.
but, on the contrary, nicer even than Miss
Hopkins. Would Taras think 30 also and
like me the better for itf asked myself az
| / ran downstairs.
opeEed the door with q trembling hand
and went into the living room, 1t was soft
ly lit by half dozen wax candles. Tsras
was reading. Hearing my steps, he lifted
his eyes and glanced across the table, then
laying down his book and rising exclaimed,
"Aural" in low tone of astonishment and
stood for moment regarding me in silent
wonder.
Don't ye like it?" asked, taking his 81
lence for a token of displeasure.
why, that's just what takes my breath
away never dreamt of such a marvellous
change as this" and then he said some
thing about my bursting out winged from
the chrysalis which l did not then under
stand.
"Then ye do like it?" said !, Frightening
up under the signs of approval in his face
and voice.
"Of course do. It's charming in every
way Why. you make the room look 10
times brighter"
''You won't find anything like this down
Shadwell way" said l, turning round that
he might see the long plaits behind. But
amt got my hair right yet"
Then | hope you never may, for it can
not look better"
Pm glad you like my dress anyhow.
cause l got a lot more up stairs-none ON
'em chsap-and a sealskin jacket and gloves
with ever so many buttons and all man
ner'
"Bravop' said he, rubbing his hands, with
q smile; there's nothing like doing things
thoroughly. Aura
my shoes is caution" said, stepping
out into the light and drawing back my
skirts to show the glittering buckles.
! "Pleasant to walk in, too, should say"
Walk | feel like as if could Almost
dance in 'em, Pm that light. just like q
dream. where you feels if you could fly.
An it don't seem real neither. 1t kinder
frightens me to think as l may wake up
presently and find myself on the sacks mp
in the corner of Baxter,s wharf"
Turn it about. Say that this is the
awakening, and Baxter's wharf the dreaIn
to be forgotten" s-~'sf. -~------'
tried to realize that, but my heart and
brain gave way under the strain put upon
them
10 3E CoNTIN5TED.,
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CHAPTER X.

AN iNILOubCED III kANANACH.
returned TO my room with the ecstatic
pleasure before of trying on everything and
preparing great surprise for Taras, In
this delicious occupation spent two hours
and the time was not minute too long for
my requirements There were unforeseen
difficulties to overcome. Some of the gar
ments and the method of fastening them
We're as strange to me as they would have
been to "A savage. My hands would not be
come white like Miss Hopkins, and the
more scrubbed them the redder they
seemed to grow, and when came to dress
sng my hair thought never should sue
teed in making it presentable. 1t was so
rebellious through having had its own way
all my life that no amount of brushing
would make it lie fiat and smooth. How
ever, the brushing made 1t very lustreus,
and contrived at last to fasten it up in
loose curls on my head with the tortoise
shell pins Miss Hopkins had advised me to
buy. The choice of dress gave me less trou.
BILE; that pink silk tea gown was too lovely
to be set aside.
had only just got the fastenings right
when heard the street door shut and the
sonorous voice of Taras calling to Mere
Lucas below. Lit the lamp that stood on
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Just at that moment my eyes fell on q
girl of about my own age who was stepping
into a tram car There was nothing about
her that was ugly. On the contrary, she
looked exceedingly pretty; yet, strange to
say, could not remember having seen any
one like her in Shadwell. A light burst
upon me.
"Thet's itl' said I TO myself with convic-
tion. II got to dress like one of the upper
ten.n Without further delberation went
into the first large draper's | came to, and
singing out the incest looking young lady
behind the counter ! approached her and
said:
Here, want a set O. clothes like what
you're got on"
The young lady regarded me in frigid as
tonishment for moment. and then, with
out deigning any reply, moved away to an
other part of the counter After waiting q
reasonable time for her return and finding
myself neglected, | turned round and ap
pealed to shopwalker who had his eye on
me.
"Here, amt nobody a-goin to serve me'"
Iasked,
"What do you want, my good girl2" he
asked in patronizing tone
"Why, I've told the young woman up
there wants regular outfit. And you
needn't run away with the idea as | amt
got enough to pay for it, cause ] have
There you are" said |, opening the purse
"And if thet amt enough you re to send the
things home to the party as give me that
there card. and they'll be paid for on 'liv
cry"
He looked at the card and instantly called
In a loud, peremptory tone:
Forward, Miss Hopkins" and as the
stony young lady came down with flush
on her face he added with the same sever
ity, "be good enough to give this young
lady every attention"
Looking daggers. Miss Hopkins asked me
what wanted
~ told ye oncet I'm a-goin to dress
'xac'ly same as what you are" and exam
lining her dress added, Gimme some col
lars and cuffs with buttons in 'em like
yourn."
zone pair'" asked Miss Hopkins, taking
the cuffs from a box.
mo. Three sets of everything, and thc
best you're got"
Anything elsel"
Course. Gimme frock like yourn."
"You will have to have that made. It's
not my department"
well, amt you got nothin | can weai
now?"
"Show the young lady that line in tea
gowns" said the shopwalker
Miss Hopkins brought me tea gown II
pale pink silk, with plaits from the neck
telling me it was the right length and
would fit me, as it was intended to be worI
loose. 1t gave me thrill of delight only
to look at it, and my satisfaction was com
pleted by the perfect assurance that | haG
never seen anything like It in Shadwell.
! "rhat's. tha sort of frnck youd wear Il
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CHAPTER TX

1--WE must think about clothes next,
Aura" said Taras when | had agreed to
accept the strange name he proposed
"You will wen quite lot of things-some
to wear inlours, some to go out in, others
to change and so on"
"Wby, amt got no money" said |, tax
en- aback by the very first condition of liv
ing in new and civilized world.
"Luckily | have--somewhere," said he,
feeling in his pockets "Ah, here it is.
"A lot o. things'll cost lot o. money"
| remarked, as he looked at his purse.
That's true. If there's not enough here
to pay for all you buy, give one of these
cards and have the things sent home, to be
paid for on delivery"
looked in the purse and saw gold, more
than had ever before seen at one time.
Ny utmost possession had never Amounted
to more than a shilling, and no one had
thought fit 10 trust me with a larger sum.
| laid the purse down with vague feeling
that might be taking undo advantage Of
Taras generosity When he spoke, stop
ped him.
Hold on" said |, I'm tryin to think
this out. amt sure whether | oughter
take all this money or didn't oughter."
Good. Puzzle it out aud take it or re
fuse it as it seems to you right or wrong"
stuck my knuckles in my hips, drew a
long breath and taxed my sluggish power
of reasoning to its utmost, while Taras
smoked on in grave silence, too considerable
to suffer any sign to appear in his face OF
the amusement my perplexity must have
given him
"Taras," said at length, Pm a-goin "a
take that money, cause if you was in want
and had money should like you to take
it off me-"
Bravo, little friendP' said he joyfully
"You have grasped the meaning of the
golden rule already, Now you had better
go out and buy what you want. Do you
know the neighborhoodf"
mo, but if you tell me where the shops
is I'll find 'em amt afraid of asting my
ways"
EITHER of the streets that pass the church
will lead you into the Westminster Bridge
road, where there are plenty of shops"
nodded. but made no movement. for ths
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I ut stands to reason must do lot if
| Pm to learn everything like kid, aud how
| Pm a-goin to do it's a ticker if l amt to
| speak my own language"
Learn another.'
1t puzzled me to see how this was to be
done, until, seeing my perplexity, Taras
| said: I'VE will help you-Mere Lucus and
l."
"Will you, masterI" said |, my heart
leaping with delight at the prospect this
promise opened. "Pll do just whatever
| you tell meas fur as ] can But | ain't
| clever
THAT remains to be SEEN"
Il can't write nor nothink."
"You will soon learn to write with those
| long fingers"
But what am TO do for a livin all the
| time I'm a-lsarnin,"
ut will be time enough TO think of that
| when you have learnt what you can do
| best. Mere Lucas will always find some
thing for us to eat and drink, and there's a
room up stairs which you can have for your
self"
"Whatr' exclaimed "Herei Amt you
| goin to send me away from this pll Gel"
Not while you wish to stay"
could not help il. Something rose in
my heart and seemed to choke me with a
| Joy too great to bear-the tears would come
| to my eyes However. ! tried to hide them
| from him, and turning away as if to look
! around the room said as clearly as emo
! tiou would lst ME:
II shall have TO be awful neat and nice il
am to live in such rooms as this here"
Il daresay you will find Mere Lucas a Sc
/ we're tpaC..tF Ia that mater.
| And" stiIl keeping nv head turned, II
got 10 be nv .l good Il I'm to be" here an
other sob cnoNed me for moment or two
IA FREUD Ike OF yours lt'il b. dreadful
lon lore ltaTI eIOu,h for that.
/ That's the easiest lesson of all. ~ said he
There's olI.y one rule To remember If you
woull h- I'd, and that rule governs rich
and - ana sample, all human he
inss esd of tae earth to the other.
1t iSs - he honest and treat me and
/ tthe.s .l ) JJ would have me and Others to
treat you"
Could that be ally asked myself Could
that rule alone make him SO good to mei
1t took me a long while to rea ize that the
practice of tuis simple doctrine made him
so admirable
And now. little friend" said he taking
up his pipe and lighting it again, las the
general idea seems pretty clear, let us come
to PRACTICAL particulars What shall we do
this afternoon for beginningY"
"Nbatever you tell me to do III try and
do T. master"
Call me iaras That is my name"
Iheard his name then tor the hr7t time,
and 1t seemed "a strange and uncommon as
any part of lis new life.
''Taras," ] repeated What is my name
to le?' oe
"Why, to be sure, you must have a new
name. And then after searching for a min
ute or two in silent thought he said: ~
think we will call you Aura. 1t is pleas
ant to the ear, and it has a pretty signif-
came."
know now that Aura is diminutive
form of word that means the nymph or
second state OF the chrysalis before it takes
wings.