Lovers of Louisiana (To-Day) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1918 Excerpt: ... XXXIX GARDENS UNDER THE SEA Next morning the Creoles, at their inn, breakfasted together in a veranda that overlooked, almost overhung, the sunny harbor studded with verdant, rocky islets. In the smallest hour of the night Rosalie had heard her father return to his room; yet now in the eyes of both there was a refreshed brightness, and on his brow a better calm than had been there for many a day. Their talk ran lightly, now on things in sight, now on trifles remembered in their dear home city. They felt no impulse to mention the previous evening or even to rest their glances on each other; the wide scene was beautifully peaceful, and to Louisianians there was an inspiration of more than mere novelty in a watery landscape built on rock. "A landscape," said Rosalie, "with an anatomy " Down in a distant turn of the bay a war-ship or two rode at anchor, another rested in dry-dock; but up at the town's front as many merchant steamers were busy, and everywhere pleasure-boats of faultless line and towering spread of wing glided near and far and near again to lure to a perfect day on the water. Directly across the harbor a certain big hotel seemed to stand higher, spread wider, above the town's white roofs than yesterday, as if it had drawn nearer in the night. But that was only Rosalie's unspoken fancy, not monsieur's. He dropped into English. "That liT thing over yonder, with steam up, at right of the hotel an' of the ferry pier--is that not the boat that take' passenger' every fine day out paz' the harbor to see the marvel of those coral reef through those glazz bottom'?' She said it was and that it always touched at the inn. "Then w'y we 'ave never make thad trip?" "Ah, why When every day I'm begging you " "But always you prit-en' tha'z for yo' hown pleasure ..".