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her since his father brought hiht, after

his mother died there The passion that awoke in hi like an avalanche, or like a prairie

fire, or like anything that drives headlong over all obstacles

Monsieur Vals well considered: that

is, the girl's obscure origin Armand looked into her eyes and did not

care He was reminded that she was naive her one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana?

He ordered the corbeille from Paris, and contained himself hat

patience he could until it arrived; then they were married

Madame Valmonde had not seen Desiree and the baby for four weeks When

she reached L'Abri she shuddered at the first sight of it, as she always

did It was a sad looking place, which for entle presence of aloved her own land too well

ever to leave it The roof ca out beyond the wide galleries that encircled the yellow

stuccoed house Big, solerew close to it, and their

thick-leaved, far-reaching branches shadowed it like a pall Young

Aubigny's rule was a strict one, too, and under it his negroes had

forgotten how to be gay, as they had been during the old ent lifetime