The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories

By Dunbar, Alice

Book Id: WPLBN0000630160
Format Type: PDF eBook
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories
Author:	Dunbar, Alice
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: THE GOODNESS OF SAINT ROCQUE Manuela was tall and slender and graceful, and once you knew her the lithe form could never be mistaken. She walked with the easy spring that comes from a perfectly arched foot. To?day she swept swiftly down Marais Street, casting a quick glance here and there from under her heavy veil as if she feared she was being followed. If you had peered under the veil, you would have seen that Manuela?s dark eyes were swollen and discoloured about the lids, as though they had known a sleepless, tearful night. There had been a picnic the day before, and as merry a crowd of giddy, chattering Creole girls and boys as ever you could see boarded the ramshackle dummy?train that puffed its way wheezily out wide Elysian Fields Street, around the lily?covered bayous, to Milneburg?on?the?Lake. Now, a picnic at Milneburg is a thing to be remembered for ever. One charters a rickety?looking, weather?beaten dancing?pavilion, built over the water, and after storing the children ? for your true Creole never leaves the small folks at home ? and the baskets and mothers downstairs, the young folks go up?stairs and dance to the tune of the best band you ever heard. For what can equal the music of a violin, a guitar, a cornet, and a bass viol to trip the quadrille to at a picnic?

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories, 1 -- Alice Dunbar, 1 -- THE GOODNESS OF SAINT ROCQUE, 1 -- TONY'S WIFE, 4 -- THE FISHERMAN OF PASS CHRISTIAN, 8 -- M'SIEU FORTIER'S VIOLIN, 15 -- BY THE BAYOU ST. JOHN, 18 -- WHEN THE BAYOU OVERFLOWS, 20 -- MR. BAPTISTE, 23 -- A CARNIVAL JANGLE, 26 -- LITTLE MISS SOPHIE, 28 -- SISTER JOSEPHA, 32 -- THE PRALINE WOMAN, 36 -- ODALIE, 37 -- LA JUANITA, 39 -- TITEE, 42