A Night in Acadie
- ISBN-10
- 1230365451
- ISBN-13
- 9781230365459
- Series
- A Night in Acadie
- Pages
- 64
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-09
- Publisher
- Theclassics.Us
- Author
- Kate Chopin
Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...every telling. Agapie grew up to deserve the confidence and favors of the family. She redoubled her acts of kindness toward Pa-Jeff; but somehow she could not look into his face again. Yet she need not have feared. Long before the end came, poor old Pa-Jeff, confused, bewildered, believed the story himself as firmly as those who had heard him tell it over and over for so many years. Neg Creol A Neg Creol T the remote period of his birth he had been named Cesar Francois Xavier, but no one ever thought of calling him anything but Chicot, or Neg, or Maringouin. Down at the French market, where he worked among the fishmongers, they called him Chicot, when they were not calling him names that are written less freely than they are spoken. But one felt privileged to call him almost anything, he was so black, lean, lame, and shriveled. He wore a head-kerchief, and whatever other rags the fishermen and their wives chose to bestow upon him. Throughout one whole winter he wore a woman's discarded jacket with puffed sleeves. Among some startling beliefs entertained by Chicot was one that "Michie St. Pierre et Michie St. Paul" had created him. Of "Michie bon Dieu" he held his own private opinion, and not a too flattering one at that. This fantastic notion concerning the origin of his being he owed to the early teaching of his young master, a lax believer, and a great farceur in his day. Chicot had once been thrashed by a robust young Irish priest for expressing his religious views, and at another time knifed by a Sicilian. So he had come to hold his peace upon that subject. Upon another theme he talked freely and harped continuously. For years he had tried to convince his associates...
