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Updated: June 23, 2025
And even Grandpere Colomes, as he brewed on the Cherokee-rose-covered gallery, a fiery punch for the heroes, was heard to admit that "some time dose Americain can mos' be lak one Frenchman." And we danced at the betrothal supper the next week. It was cold that day. The great sharp north-wind swept out Elysian Fields Street in blasts that made men shiver, and bent everything in their track.
A suit of clothes, a new stove, and a set of kitchen utensils for the log house opposite Grosse Ile, a trip to Quebec, a little game of "Blof Americain" in the back room of the Hotel du Nord, that was the end of the money. This is not a Sunday-school story. Jean was no saint. Even as a hero he had his weak points. But after his own fashion he was a pretty good kind of a marquis.
Sometimes, after one of the masked balls, a pink domino at the Café Americain will call for champagne, with the announcement, "M. Citron pays," without for a moment imagining that she is speaking of the heir to a throne. To take a final survey, let us enter the Café de la Paix, the most imperial, cosmopolitan and stylish of cafés.
All of the cheaper rooms were taken; but of course the Signor Americain would wish only the best and be glad to pay. Uncle John requested them to rob him as modestly as possible without conflicting with their sense of duty, and they assured him they would do so. The rooms were adorable.
"And you, Raoul, have no occasion for a Te Deum after your escape?" demanded Ghita, gently, and yet with emphasis. "Is there no God for you to thank, as well as for the vice-governatore?" "Peste! our French deity is little thought of just now, Ghita. Republics, as you know, have no great faith in religion is it not so, mon brave Américain? Tell us, Etooel; have you any religion in America?"
He said that in such times as these every lover of liberty should go armed; that the age of trickery had come; that by trickery Louisianians had been sold, like cattle, to a nation of parvenues, to be dragged before juries for asserting the human right of free trade or ridding the earth of sneaks in the pay of the government; that laws, so-called, had been forged into thumbscrews, and a Congress which had bound itself to give them all the rights of American citizens sorry boon! was preparing to slip their birthright acres from under their feet, and leave them hanging, a bait to the vultures of the Américain immigration.
M. St.-Ange bowed and smiled, and was about to call attention, by both gesture and speech, to a singular object on top of the still uncovered head, when the nervous motion of the Americain anticipated him, as, throwing up an immense hand, he drew down a large roll of bank-notes. The crowd laughed, the West-Floridian joining, and began to disperse.
Was it not bad enough for his petite Juanita, his Spanish blossom, his hope of a family that had held itself proudly aloof from "dose Americain" from time immemorial, to have smiled upon this Mercer, this pale-eyed youth? Was it not bad enough for her to demean herself by walking upon the pier with him? But for a boat, his boat, "un bateau Americain," to be named La Juanita! Oh, the shame of it!
The feverish excitement of his senses began to create frenzied rhythms in his ears: "O ce pauvre poilu! Qu'il doit etre mouille" said a small tremulous voice beside him. He turned. The girl was offering him part of her umbrella. "O c'est un Americain!" she said again, still speaking as if to herself. "Mais ca ne vaut pas la peine." "Mais oui, mais oui." He stepped under the umbrella beside her.
In taunting him with what he might have had, however, she let the identity of the newsbringer leak out. De la Tour then warned her passionately against le jeune aventurier Americain, and almost frightened the girl into disbelieving the whole story.
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