Tales of Louisiana Life. Kate Chopin
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Название: Tales of Louisiana Life

Автор: Kate Chopin

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       Kate Chopin

      Tales of Louisiana Life

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      2021 OK Publishing

      EAN 4064066381837

      Table of Contents

       Bayou Folk

       A Night in Acadie by Kate Chopin

      Bayou Folk

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       A NO-ACCOUNT CREOLE

       IN AND OUT OF OLD NATCHITOCHES.

       IN SABINE.

       A VERY FINE FIDDLE.

       BEYOND THE BAYOU.

       OLD AUNT PEGGY.

       THE RETURN OF ALCIBIADE.

       A RUDE AWAKENING.

       THE BÊNITOUS' SLAVE.

       DÉSIRÉE'S BABY.

       A TURKEY HUNT

       MADAME CÉLESTIN'S DIVORCE.

       LOVE ON THE BON-DIEU.

       LOKA.

       BOULÔT AND BOULOTTE.

       FOR MARSE CHOUCHOUTE

       A VISIT TO AVOYELLES.

       A WIZARD FROM GETTYSBURG.

       MA'AME PÉLAGIE.

       AT THE 'CADIAN BALL.

       LA BELLE ZORAÏDE.

       A GENTLEMAN OF BAYOU TÊCHE.

       A LADY OF BAYOU ST. JOHN.

      A NO-ACCOUNT CREOLE

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      One agreeable afternoon in late autumn two young men stood together on Canal Street, closing a conversation that had evidently begun within the club-house which they had just quitted.

      "There's big money in it, Offdean," said the elder of the two. "I would n't have you touch it if there was n't. Why, they tell me Patchly 's pulled a hundred thousand out of the concern a'ready."

      "That may be," replied Offdean, who had been politely attentive to the words addressed to him, but whose face bore a look indicating that he was closed to conviction. He leaned back upon the clumsy stick which he carried, and continued: "It's all true, I dare say, Fitch; but a decision of that sort would mean more to me than you'd believe if I were to tell you. The beggarly twenty-five thousand's all I have, and I want to sleep with it under my pillow a couple of months at least before I drop it into a slot."

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