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It instantly occurred to him how much power such circumstances would place in the hands of Mr. Fitzgerald. The thought passed through his mind, "Would he marry Rosabella?" And he seemed to hear a repetition of the light, careless tones, "Of course not, she was a quadroon." His uneasiness was too strong to be restrained, and the second day after his arrival he started for New Orleans.
There was constraint on my part, often bordering upon perplexity. My conversation was with the Creole, my thoughts dwelt upon the Quadroon. With the latter I dare but exchange glances. Etiquette restrained the tongue, though all the conventionalities of the world could not hinder the eyes from speaking in their own silent but expressive language. Even in this there was constraint.
The quadroon did not meet Frowenfeld's kindled eyes for a moment, and when he did, it was slowly and dejectedly. "He canno' be," he said, and then, seeing his words were not understood, he added: "He 'ave no Cause. Dad peop' 'ave no Cause."
"Once I heard mamma say to my aunts: 'So many of these vieux carré stories are but pretty pebbles a quadroon and a duel, a quadroon and a duel always the same two peas in the baby's rattle." "There are better stories for a little deeper search," Chester said. "Ah, she said that too! 'And not, she said, 'because the vieux carré is unlike, but so like the rest of the world."
Although the term "negro ball" is applied to these gatherings, yet a large portion of the men who attend them are whites. Negro balls and parties in the Southern States, especially in the cities and towns, are usually made up of quadroon women, a few negro men, and any number of white gentlemen. These are gatherings of the most democratic character.
Nor, if we turn to the present, is the evidence much stronger which is offered by the gens de couleur whom you may see in the quadroon quarter this afternoon, with "Ichabod" legible on their murky foreheads through a vain smearing of toilet powder, dragging their chairs down to the narrow gateway of their close-fenced gardens, and staring shrinkingly at you as you pass, like a nest of yellow kittens.
Among some of them irregular household establishments were regularly maintained by white men, and there were held the "quadroon balls" which in course of time gave the city a distinct notoriety.
But the last part of the story is incredible. If she were half as handsome, no wonder Mr. Royal idolized her, as they say he did." "Did he marry her in the French Islands?" inquired Alfred. "They were not married," answered Fitzgerald. "Of course not, for she was a quadroon. But here are my lodgings, and I must bid you good night."
One evening, as the sun was sinking below the broad, flat land, its burning disk reddened by a low golden haze of suspended dust, Richling passed slowly toward his home, coming from a lower part of the town by way of the quadroon quarter.
"Lord love me, if she were only a quadroon, I'd buy her!" A versatile dramatic poet is grim Destiny, making with equal facility tragedy, farce, burletta, masque or mystery.
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