wilight]

[Illustration: Cocktail hour at The Breakers]

[Illustration: Nowhere is the sand more like a deep warm dust of yellow
gold; nowhere is there a margin of the earth so splashed with spots of
brilliant color; nowhere is water less like water, more like a flowing
waste of liquid emeralds and sapphires edged with a thousand gleaming
flouncing strings of pearls]

[Illustration: The couples on the platform were "ragging," their
shoulders working like the walking-beams of side-wheelers]

[Illustration: Harness held together by that especial Providence which
watches over negro mendings]

[Illustration: It was a very jolly fair, with the usual lot of barkers
and the usual gaping crowd]

[Illustration: The mysterious old Absinthe House, founded 1799]

[Illustration: St. Anthony's Garden, where duels originating at the
quadroon balls were fought]

[Illustration: Courtyard of the old Orleans Hotel]

[Illustration: The little lady who sits behind the desk is more than
ninety-five years old, and came to New Orleans as the bride of Antoine]

[Illustration: The lights are always lowered at Antoine's when the
spectacular Cafe Boulot Diabolique is served]

[Illustration: Passing between the brilliantly illuminated buildings,
under festoons of electric lights the Mardi Gras parades, with their
floats, their bands, their torch-bearers, their masked figures, are
glorious sights for children from eight to eighty years of age]

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Transcriber's Notes.

Page 82: changed "Ridgleys" to "Ridgelys" (of present
Ridgelys)

Page 83: changed "her serious, eyes" to "her serious
eyes"

Page 138: Added missing word "we" (said as we were about
to leave)

Page 161: removed hyphen from "one-course" (prescribed
one course)

Page 169: changed "not" to "now" (now know that I did)

Page 172: added missing quotation mark (such a long
telegram.")

Page 209: changed "Virgina" to "Virginia" (in Virginia,
save,)

Page 217: changed "it" to "in" (harm in it)

Page 217: added missing quotation mark (raised with
niggers around him."")

Page 245: removed superfluous quotation marks from end
of two lines (Yass, Jedge, drunk. _Always_ drunk.)
(he come so fast he untook the do' off'n
de hinges; den 'e begins--")

Page 283: added missing quotation mark (you very
definitely don't.