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Title: Madame Delphine

Author: George W. Cable

Release Date: November 2, 2006 [EBook #19703]

Language: English

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MADAME DELPHINE
BY
GEORGE W. CABLE

_Author of "Old Creole Days," "The Grandissimes," etc._

NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT
BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
743 AND 745 BROADWAY
1881
PRESS OF J. J. LITTLE & CO.,
NOS. 10 TO 20 ASTOR PLACE, NEW YORK.

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. PAGE
AN OLD HOUSE 1

CHAPTER II.
MADAME DELPHINE 7

CHAPTER III.
CAPITAINE LEMAITRE 12

CHAPTER IV.
THREE FRIENDS 18

CHAPTER V.
THE CAP FITS 28

CHAPTER VI.
A CRY OF DISTRESS 40

CHAPTER VII.
MICHE VIGNEVIELLE 50

CHAPTER VIII.
SHE 59

CHAPTER IX.
OLIVE 68

CHAPTER X.
BIRDS 74

CHAPTER XI.
FACE TO FACE 82

CHAPTER XII.
THE MOTHER BIRD 90

CHAPTER XIII.
TRIBULATION 99

CHAPTER XIV.
BY AN OATH 106

CHAPTER XV.
KYRIE ELEISON 120

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MADAME DELPHINE.

CHAPTER I.

AN OLD HOUSE.

A few steps from the St. Charles Hotel, in New Orleans, brings you to
and across Canal street, the central avenue of the city, and to that
corner where the flower-women sit at the inner and outer edges of the
arcad