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A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept

repeating over and over:

"Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!"

He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody

understood, unless it was theon the other

side of the door, whistling his fluty notes out upon the breeze with

persistence

Mr Pontellier, unable to read his newspaper with any degree of coust

He walked down the gallery and across the narrow "bridges" which

connected the Lebrun cottages one with the other He had been seated

before the door of the bird were

the property of Madaht to make all the

noise they wished Mr Pontellier had the privilege of quitting their

society when they ceased to be entertaining

He stopped before the door of his own cottage, which was the fourth one

fro himself in a wicker

rocker which was there, he oncethe newspaper The day was Sunday; the paper was a day old The