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"You are soon to go to Castanado's to see that manuscript story, are you not?" "Oh, is it a story? Have you read it?" "Yes, I've read it, 'tis short. They wanted my opinion. And 'tis a story, though true." "A story! Love story? very absorbing?" "No, it is not of love except love of liberty. Whether 'twill absorb you or no I cannot say.
"And in all this deluge of trade spirit," Ovide continued, "the best dry land left of it of that spirit of art is " "Castanado's shop, I dare say." "Castanado's and three others in that one square you pass every day without discovering the fact. But that's natural; you are a busy lawyer." "Not so very. What are the other three?"
I'll be glad to go." They went. Through that "recommend'" of Chester, got by Thorndyke-Smith for the law firm, and by him shown to M. De l'Isle, the coterie knew that the pretty lady whom they welcomed in Castanado's little parlor was of a family line from which had come three State governors, one of whom had been also his State's chief justice.
"No," madame put in, "you see, you can't riturn at Castanado's immediately to-morrow or next day. That next day, tha'z Sunday, but you don't know if madame goin' to have the stren'th for that fati-gue. Yet same time you can't wait forever! And bisside', yo' Aunt Corinne, Aunt Yvonne Mr. Chezter he's never have that lugsury to meet them, and that will be a very choice o'casion for Mr.
As she returned to Ovide an old magazine, at last he heard her voice singularly deep and serene. She thanked the bookman for his loan and, with the child, went out. It disturbed the Southern youth to unbosom himself to a black man, but he saw no decent alternative: "Landry, I had not the faintest idea that that young lady was nearer than Castanado's shop!"
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