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The next day, after kissing mamma and the children, we got into the large skiff with papa and three days later stepped ashore in New Orleans. We remained there a little over a week, preparing our traveling-dresses. Despite the admonitions of papa, we went to the fashionable modiste of the day, Madame Cinthelia Lefranc, and ordered for each a suit that cost one hundred and fifty dollars.
Our traveling-dresses were gray cirsacas, the skirt all one, short, without puffs; the jacket coming up high and with long sleeves, a sunbonnet of cirsacas, blue stockings, embroidered handkerchief or blue cravat about the neck, and high-heeled shoes. As soon as Celeste heard of our arrival in New Orleans she hastened to us. She was a good creature; humble, respectful, and always ready to serve.
Then, with hands that stung, Helen packed the traveling-suits in the bag. "There! But what an awful mess!" exclaimed Helen. "Oh, Bo, our pretty traveling-dresses!" "We'll press them t-to-morrow on a l-log," replied Bo, and she giggled. They started for the road. Bo, strange to note, did not carry her share of the burden, and she seemed unsteady on her feet.
But such journeys were a matter of course in those days. "And above all things, my children," said my father, "don't have too much baggage." I should not have thought of rebelling; but Suzanne raised loud cries, saying it was an absolute necessity that we go with papa to New Orleans, so as not to find ourselves on our journey without traveling-dresses, new neckerchiefs, and a number of things.
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