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The old gentleman had had reverses of his own, which would bear the telling, but nothing was more shocking to him than this that Idalie Sainte Foy Mortemart des Islets should be teaching a public colored school for it makes one blush to name it seven dollars and a half a month. For seven dollars and a half a month to teach a set of well!
Her name, besides baptismal titles, was Idalie Sainte Foy Mortemart des Islets. When she came into society, in the brilliant little world of New Orleans, it was the event of the season, and after she came in, whatever she did became also events.
What Mademoiselle Idalie cared to learn she studied, what she did not she ignored; and she followed the same simple rule untrammeled in her eating, drinking, dressing, and comportment generally; and whatever discipline may have been exercised on the place, either in fact or fiction, most assuredly none of it, even so much as in a threat, ever attended her sacred person.
Mademoiselle Idalie received her birth, and what education she had, on her parents' plantation, the famed old Reine Sainte Foy place, and it is no secret that, like the ancient kings of France, her birth exceeded her education.
Frascati, Rue de la Loi, S. Idalie, S. Hameau de Chantilly, aux Champs Elysees. Paphos, Boulevard du Temple. Vauxhall d'hiver. 40. d'ete, S. 41. a Mousseaux, S. 42. a St. Cloud, S. 43. au Petit Trianon, S. Jardin de l'hotel Biron, Rue de Varenne, S. Thelusson, Chaussee d'Antin, S. Marboeuf, Grille de Chaillot, S. 47. de l'hotel d'Orsay, S. Fetes champetres de Bagatelle, S.
The Edict; A Tale of 1492. The Escape; A Tale of 1755. Red Rose Villa. Gonzalvo's Daughter. The Authoress. Helon. Lucy. The Spirit's Entreaty. Idalie. Lady Gresham's Fete. The Group of Sculpture. The Spirit of Night. Recollections of a Rambler. Cast thy Bread upon the Waters. The Triumph of Love.
When she was just turned sixteen, Mademoiselle Idalie made up her mind to go into society. Whether she was beautiful or not, it is hard to say. It is almost impossible to appreciate properly the beauty of the rich, the very rich.
But he must have seen her, and, with his abstraction and old age, not have noticed her, for he found out from the negroes that she had been teaching four or five years there. And he found out also how, is not important that she was Idalie Sainte Foy Mortemart des Islets. La grande demoiselle!
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