Madame Delphine
Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925
English
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MADAME DELPHINE
BY
GEORGE W. CABLE
Author of "Old Creole Days," "The Grandissimes," etc.
NEW YORK
Copyright
By CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
743 AND 745 Broadway
1881
PRESS OF J. J. LITTLE & CO.,
NOS. 10 TO 20 ASTOR PLACE, NEW YORK.
CONTENTS.
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MADAME DELPHINE.
AN OLD HOUSE.
A few steps from the St. Charles Hotel, in New Orleans, brings you toand across Canal street, the central avenue of the city, and to thatcorner where the flower-women sit at the inner and outer edges of thearcaded sidewalk, and make the air sweet with their fragrantmerchandise. The crowd—and if it is near the time of the carnival itwill be great—will follow Canal street.
But you turn, instead, into the quiet, narrow way which a lover ofCreole antiquity, in fondness for a romantic past, is still prone tocall the Rue Royale. You will pass a few restaurants, a few auctionrooms, a few furniture warehouses, and will hardly realize that you[Pg 2]have left behind you the activity and clatter of a city of merchantsbefore you find yourself in a region of architectural decrepitude, wherean ancient and foreign-seeming domestic life, in second stories,overhangs the ruins of a former commercial prosperity, and uponeverything has settled down a long Sabbath of decay. The vehicles in thestreet are few in number, and are merely passing through; the stores are
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