a night in acadie

Born in St. Louis, she moved to New Orleans after marrying Oscar Chopin in 1870. But if some one had only thought of gagging Foché, there would have been less noise. The buckboard creaked, bounced, jolted and swayed. How the loose boards swayed and creaked beneath the weight of the struggling men! "It looks that way to me, somehow," he replied. He wanted to view it from this side and that in comparison with other, familiar situations. Afterwards, he did not know what he would look forward to; he did not care; afterward made no difference. The embers under the empty gumbo-pot glared red in the darkness. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published Start by marking “A Night In Acadie” as Want to Read: Error rating book. There was nothing to do on the plantation so Telèsphore, having a few dollars in his pocket, thought he would go down and spend Sunday in the vicinity of Marksville. W'y don't yo' father and mother want you to marry 'im? Didn' I meet you once yonda on Bayou Derbanne? "Ah, b'en, pour ça! Her major works were two short story collections, Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897). ", "He's good-lookin'; yes," she exclaimed, when Telèsphore was out of ear-shot. A Night in Acadie. my dear li'le Zaïdé, how can you say such a thing! The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett, Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe. There lay a good bit of road before them and she did not hesitate to accept Telèsphore's offer to bear her bundle on the way. Telèsphore having brushed, "spruced" and refreshed himself, strolled about, taking a view of the surroundings. And all on account of the mammoth pot of gumbo that bubbled, bubbled, bubbled out in the open air. The brick chimney extended into the room and formed a ledge that served as mantel shelf. He had hesitated at first to approach, but at this friendly sign of recognition he drew eagerly forward and held out his hand. A narrow bed was off in the corner. Her will, which had been overmastering and aggressive, seemed to have grown numb under the disturbing spell of the past few hours. Feet were pounding through the dance; dust was flying. They had soon reached the woods. offering to put it around her. He said he'd be yere sho' at one." When he had grown red in the face and wasted an amount of energy that would have driven the plow for a day, he offered her his seat on the shady side. She demurred - there would be no room for the bundle. "Unhitch Jules' ho'se an' buggy there an' turn 'em 'roun' this way, please." "I can't imagine, me, w'at's become of André! "No, I ain't cole." For it surely would have been agreeable to sit there on the gallery waiting while Zaïda prepared herself for the dance; to have partaken of supper with the family and afterward accompanied them to Foché's. It was a little warm for April but the car was not uncomfortably crowded and Telèsphore was fortunate enough to secure the last available window-seat on the shady side. Strictly speaking, they may not have been quite all that; but in any event, that is the way Telèsphore thought about them. There was no one present whom he knew well enough to speak to: the district attorney, whom he knew by sight, a French priest from Natchitoches and a few faces that were familiar only because they were native. There had evidently been an attempt at dressing for the occasion at some early part of the previous day, but such evidences had almost wholly vanished. There was the same scene every Saturday at Foché's! He was simply mistaken in his estimate of André Pascal's ability to "raise Cain" during an entire afternoon and evening and still keep a rendezvous with a lady at one o'clock in the morning. She wore a figured lawn, cut a little low in the back, that exposed a round, soft nuque with a few little clinging circlets of soft, brown hair. "Ah, b'en oui! A Night in Acadie: Chopin, Kate: Amazon.nl Selecteer uw cookievoorkeuren We gebruiken cookies en vergelijkbare tools om uw winkelervaring te verbeteren, onze services aan te bieden, te begrijpen hoe klanten onze services gebruiken zodat we verbeteringen kunnen aanbrengen, en om advertenties weer te geven, inclusief op interesses gebaseerde advertenties. Read 12 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Li'le mo', I would miss the ball. Publication date 1968 Publisher [New York] Garrett Press Collection americana Digitizing sponsor Google Book from the collections of New York Public Library Language English. He was dressed rather carefully in navy-blue "store clothes" that fitted well because anything would have fitted Telèsphore. ", "You betta wait till you know who you talkin' about. Return to the Kate Chopin Home Page, or . The house, big, bulky and weather-beaten, consisted chiefly of galleries in every stage of decrepitude and dilapidation. The man had gone in search of his master. . And when she left him to go in and dance her first dance with cousin Jules, he leaned up against a post and thought of them: nose, eyes, hair, ears, lips and round, soft throat. Frete GRÁTIS em milhares de produtos com o Amazon Prime. If her eyes were not so handsome as Elvina's, her skin was fine, and being slender to a fault, she moved swiftly about her household affairs, or when she walked the country lanes in going to church or to the store. Zaïda might be among those people approaching, flying, crawling ahead of the darkness that was creeping out of the far wood. Anyhow he's goin' to marry us. They started to walk down the track before turning into the lane leading to Trodon's house. Telèsphore had once reached the point of believing that Amaranthe would make him an excellent wife. "It's strange you don' know 'em yo' se'f, cousine." Carrito Each saw in the other a thing to be wiped out of his way - out of existence if need be. It looked to Telèsphore and Zaïda very large and gloomy when they entered it. she asked him when he had found and secured her. He was louder than all the noise; he was more visible than the dust. ", "W'y? The girl seemed very warm and kept mopping her face. He began to take account of her appearance: her nose, her eyes, her hair. He took it gratefully enough, but he did not know what to do with it; that is, he did not know what he might dare to do with it, so he let it drop gently away and went to the fire. A Night in Acadie. I wrap' the dress roun' in toileciree this time. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern. There were a few chinaberry trees and a spreading live oak in the yard. She waited but drew back a little into the shadow. it's like a prince. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. No need to look fo' him. It was the thought of this girl married to a man whom even Jules Trodon would not suffer to enter his house. She vainly sought her fan, then she fanned herself with her handkerchief, and finally made an attempt to open the window. He had been freshly shaved and trimmed and carried an umbrella. Although the house was small, as it comprised but one room, that room was comparatively a large one. The women's voices were almost without exception shrill and piercing; the men's, soft and low-pitched. But her thoughts evidently wandered from the subject and were occupied with matters that did not concern him, for she turned away and gazed silently out of the window. He wore - a little tilted over one eye - a straw hat in preference to the conventional gray felt; for no other reason than that his uncle Telèsphore would have worn a felt, and a battered one at that. The girl turned to Telèsphore, as to an old and valued friend: "Tiens! The musicians were really never at their best till the quart bottle had been consumed. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Telèsphore had knocked him down. Chopin was greatly influenced by her Franco-American household, as evidenced in her works, which all took place in the very Cajun setting of New Orleans, Louisiana. 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