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Updated: May 25, 2025
Poleon's eye had been amazingly correct, for it fitted her neatly, save at the waist, which was even more than an inch too large, notwithstanding the fact that she had never worn such a corset as the well-formed Marie Bourgette was accustomed to.
She's swell dress', too. She's name' Marie Bourgette." "Oh, I've heard about her," said Necia. "She owns a claim on Bonanza Creek." "Sure, she's frien's wit' Charlie McCormack, dat riche feller, but I don' know it dis tam', so I ask her for dance wit' me. Den we drink a bottle of champagne twenty dollar." "'Mamselle, I say, 'how much you charge for sell me dat dress?"
'Biccause I'll tak' 'im down to Flambeau for Necia Gale, w'at never had no dress lak' dat in all her life. Wal, sir, dat Marie Bourgette, she's hear of you before, an' your dad, too mos' all dose Cheechakos know 'bout Old Man Gale so she say: "'Wat lookin' kind of gal is dis Necia? An' I tell her all 'bout you. Wen I'm t'rough she say:" "'But maybe your little frien' is more bigger as I am.
"I never see so many people since I lef Quebec," he was saying. "She's jus' lak' beeg city mus' be t'ree, four t'ousan' people. Every day some more dey come, an' all night dey dance an' sing an' drink w'iskee. Ba gosh, dat's fine place!" "Are there lots of white women?" asked the girl. "Yes, two, t'ree hondred. Mos' of dem is work in dance-halls. Dere's one fine gal I see, name' Marie Bourgette.
"'No, no, Mamselle Marie, I'll go 'long, too, for so you don' change your min', I say; an' I stan' outside her door till she pass me de whole dam' works." " Don' forget de little shoes, I say an' dat's how it come!" "And you paid three hundred dollars for it!" Necia said, aghast. The Canadian shrugged. "Only for de good heart of Marie Bourgette I pay wan t'ousan'," said he.
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