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Updated: May 16, 2025
In the morning Jeanne generally turned a somersault that took her over to the edge of the big bed, from whence she slid down. The English had abolished slavery in name, but most of the Pani servants remained. They seldom had any other than their tribal name. Since the departure of the Bellestres Jeanne's guardian had taken on a new dignity. She was a tall, grave woman, and much respected by all.
The episode with the Bellestres and Monsieur's kindly care, the efforts to subdue in some measure the child's wildness and passion for liberty, which made the father smile, thinking of his own exuberant spirits and adventures, her affection for the Indian woman, her desultory training, that Father Rameau believed now had been a sinful mistake, her strange disappearance
The Bellestres were Huguenots, but Madame had a leaning toward the Church and the child was baptized. Madame Bellestre, who was a lovely woman, deferred to her husband until she was dying, when Father Rameau was sent for and she acknowledged that she died in the holy faith. There was some talk about the child, but M. Bellestre claimed it and cares for it.
So she kept her house and nursed Pani back to some semblance of her former self. But often it was a touch of the childhood of old age, and she rambled about those she had known, the De Longueils and Bellestres, and the night Jeanne had been left in her arms. Jeanne liked the chapel minister and his wife very much. The lady had so many subjects to converse about that never led to curious questions.
"I do not know the name." "Father Gilbert or Father Rameau might know. Are these Angelots Catholics?" "There is only one little girl." "Oh!" a light broke over Madame's face. "I think I can recall an event. Husband, you know the little child the Bellestres had?" "I do not remember," shaking his head. "It was found queerly. They had a slave who became its nurse.
I have crossed her path a time or two, though I can't tell just why she interests me. She is bright, vivacious, but curiously ignorant. Why does she live with this Indian woman and run wild?" "I cannot tell any further than it seems M. Bellestre's strange whim. All I know of the child is Pani's story. The De Longueils went to France and the Bellestres took their house.
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