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Want of space must for the present prevent any description of the fine works exhibited; suffice it to say that the Committee Whittredge, McEntee, Thompson, as well as Gifford, Eastman Johnson, Bierstadt, Beard, the Weirs, Hazeltine, William Hart, Dana, Leutze, Gignoux, Shattuck, Brown, Suydam, etc., were all worthily represented. New York has reason to be proud of her artists.
"Not a sparrow falls to the ground in Louisiana that your Excellency does not hear of it," she answered. "And Gignoux?" he said, speaking to me again. "As I told you, Monsieur le Baron," I answered, "I have come to New Orleans at a personal sacrifice to induce my cousin to abandon this matter, and I went out last evening to try to get word of him." This was not strictly true.
"Not a sparrow falls to the ground in Louisiana that your Excellency does not hear of it," she answered. "And Gignoux?" he said, speaking to me again. "As I told you, Monsieur le Baron," I answered, "I have come to New Orleans at a personal sacrifice to induce my cousin to abandon this matter, and I went out last evening to try to get word of him." This was not strictly true.
"You make it your business to hear a great deal, Monsieur Gignoux," I retorted, my temper slipping a little. He hastened to apologize. "Mille pardons, Monsieur," he said; "I see you are Federalist but drunk. Is it not so? Monsieur, you tink this ver' silly thing this expedition." "Whatever I think, Monsieur," I answered, "I am a friend of General Clark's." "An enemy of ze cause?" he put in.
"You tek ze air, Monsieur Reetchie?" said he. "You look for some one, yes? You git up too late see him off." I made a swift resolve never to quibble with this man. "So Mr. Temple has gone to New Orleans with the Sieur de St. Gre," I said. Citizen Gignoux laid a fat finger on one side of his great nose. The nose was red and shiny, I remember, and glistened in the sunlight.
Gre and I were joined above Natchez by that little pig, Citizen Gignoux, and we shot past De Lemos in the night. Since then we have been permitted to sleep no more at various plantations. We have been waked up at barbarous hours in the morning and handed on, as it were. They were all fond of us, but likewise they were all afraid of the Baron. What day is to-day? Monday?
Charlotte Jacques rests her fame on a single work, "La Veille." Mlle. Gignoux has directed her talents to the lyric drama, "La Vision de Jeanne d'Arc" being her most notable work. Hermine Dejazet is another operetta composer. Mme.
I fear that a month at least has yet to elapse before our expedition can move." "It is one wise choice," put in Monsieur Gignoux. "Monsieur le general and gentlemen," said the Sieur de St. Gre, gracefully, "I thank you ver' much for the confidence. I leave by first flatboat and will have all things stir up when you come. The citizens of Louisiane await you.
Suddenly I was on my feet, every sense alert, staring. In the moonlight, made milky by the haze, he was indistinct. And yet I could have taken oath that the square, diminutive figure, with the head set forward on the shoulders, was Gignoux's. If this man were not Gignoux, then the Lord had cast two in a strange mould. And what was Gignoux doing in New Orleans?
This was another shock, under which the Baron fairly staggered. "Diable! is Madame la Vicomtesse in the plot?" he cried. "What does Madame know of Gignoux?" Madame's manner suddenly froze. "I am likely to be in the plot, Monsieur," she said.
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