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The PriceIn the days when New Orleans still claimed distinction as the only American city without trolleys,...
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Author: Lynde, Francis,1856-1930
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Language: English
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The Price

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The Price

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Author: Lynde, Francis,1856-1930
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Price

In the days when New Orleans still claimed distinction as the only American city without trolleys, sky-scrapers, or fast trainswas it yesterday? or the day before?there was a dingy, cobwebbed caf in an arcade off Camp Street which was well-beloved of newspaperdom; particularly of that wing of the force whose activities begin late and end in the small hours. "Chaudire's," it was called, though I know not if that were the name of the round-faced, round-bodied little Marseillais who took toll at the desk. But all men knew the fame of its gumbo and its stuffed crabs, and that its claret was neither very bad nor very dear. And if the walls were dingy and the odors from the grille pungent and penetrating at times, there went with the white-sanded floor, and the marble-topped tables for two, an Old-World air of recreative comfort which is rarer now, even in New Orleans, than it was yesterday or the day before. It was at Chaudire's that Griswold had eaten his first breakfast in the Crescent City; and it was at Chaudire's again that he was sharing a farewell[Pg 2] supper with Bainbridge, of the Louisianian. Six weeks lay between that and this; forty-odd days of discouragement and failure superadded upon other similar days and weeks and months. The breakfast, he remembered, had been garnished with certain green sprigs of hope; but at the supper-table he ate like a barbarian in arrears to his appetite and the garnishings were the bitter herbs of humiliation and defeat. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 19462
Author: Lynde, Francis
Release Date: Oct 4, 2006
Format: eBook
Language: English

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