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You should have seen that young man when those envelopes came across that counter. He swelled up like a gobbler turkey, adjusted his unseeing eye-glass, and yelled: "Come right back here. Now thir, will you order a thervant to take that papah and enwelophs to yondah dethk." Oh, the poor, miserable, contemptible American monkey! He could not carry paper and envelopes twenty feet.
While he still pondered, the father spoke. "Claude, I tell you!" his face lighted up with courage and ambition. "We better go Mervilionville!" Claude's heart leaped, but he kept his countenance. "Vermilionville? No, papa; you will not like Vermilionville." "Yaas! I will like him. 'Tis good place! Bonaventure come from yondah.
Pierre, may bee you go Mervilionville; dat make me glad, he say: 'dat way, he say, 'what I rob Peter I pay John. Where we go if dawn't go Mervilionville? St. Martinville, Opelousas, New Iberia? Too many Creole yondah for me. Can't go to city; city too big to live in. Why you dawn't like Mervilionville? You write me letter, when you was yondah, you like him fus' class!"
Ann, Cathedral Alley scores and scores of rapidly walking men and women and scampering boys and girls streamed round and through the old Square by every practicable way and out upon the levee. "Incredib'!" retorted meanwhile the pouting daughter of Maxime, pressing into the balcony after Flora. "Hah! and look yondah another incredib'!" She pointed riverward across the Square.
No fear but she will, my boy; if anybody in Louisiana knows how to take care of a traveller, it's Madame Beausoleil." He smiled for all. The daughter's large black eyes danced, but the mother asked Claude, with unmoved countenance and soft tone: "You are Claude St. Pierre? from Gran' Point'?" "Yass." "Dass lately since you left yondah?" "About two month'." "Bonaventure Deschamps he was well?"
"Isn't that a harpoon down there in the boat?" the capitalist asked calmly. "Yes, sah, oh, yes, sah, but Lordy, sah, yo' can' do nuffin wif a sea vampa. No, sah. Why, jes' oveh yondah dey was a big schooneh towed out to sea by a vampa." "A schooner?" "Yes, sah, a seven'y-ton schooneh. Yes, sah. He mus' ha' been a big fellah an' goin' swimmin' along he struck de anchoh chain wif his hohns.
The strong laughter and her strong features seemed to hide the peculiar roughness of her skin and coarseness of her hair. They made the round of one of the long tables. When they were on the far side Gertrude said, "I think you'll see a friend of mine to-day, Henderson." "D'you mean Erica's brother?" "There's his chum anyhow at yondah window." "Oh, I say." "Hah! Spree, eh?
Pierre met him, looking very grave, if not displeased. The swamper spoke first. "Dass mighty good for you I was yondah to stop dat boy. He would 'a' half-kill' you." "He'd have served me ex-actly right," said the other, and laughed again. St. Pierre shook his head, as though this confession were poor satisfaction, and said, "Dass not safe make a 'Cajun mad.
'Marse Spruce-tree, yondah, he done tole me to jes' keep a diggin' an' I'd sho fin' gol'. When I 'se jes' 'bout to gib up, an' I does sometimes, yes, sah, I does, ole Marse Spruce-tree he jes' stan' up yondah on de hillside an' laff an' say, "Why, Rufus, yuse is altogedder wufless." Ole Brer Rabbit, he nod he haid an' 'spress heself same way.
Young folks in dese parts done be'n usin' it fer a co't house 'fore I come; you know a place to do dey courtin' in. Kep' a-comin' atter I done move in, an' I had to shoo 'em away. Dat young rascal comin' yondah, he one of 'em. I claiah to goodness, I wisht I had a fence to keep folks outa my yahd. Reckon you don't know what he be quackin' lak dat fer. Dat's 'cause my name's "Mama Duck."
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