Hagar
“God could not really have intended to chastise genuine Christians (said Anne Corbier, when she stopped by Rose Janvier’s house with the sewing) while all those uptown American Protestant animal heretics got off scot-free.
“But they don’t,” pointed out Rose, setting before the older woman – her sister-in-law Olympe’s mother-in-law – a cup of black coffee (cream was absent for Lent) and a small dish of strawberries. “Their ministers instruct them to be solemn and gloomy all year round, so I suppose it evens out.” A logical Deist after the school of Jefferson and Voltaire, Rose herself was perfectly willing to eat beef – could the slender finances of the Janvier household have supported such extravagance in this hard-pinched, bank-deficient year of 1838 – had she not known it would silently grieve her devout husband, and quite vocally grieve Anne, the grandmother of the niece and nephew currently living under the Janvier roof.
Benjamin had gone – as he was periodically obliged to do thes...e days – to mend the family exchequer by taking a job in Washington City, but Gabriel and Zizi-Marie Corbier, in addition to being lively young people and excellent company, were of enormous help to Rose in the upkeep of the huge old Spanish house on the Rue Esplanade.MoreLess
“But they don’t,” pointed out Rose, setting before the older woman – her sister-in-law Olympe’s mother-in-law – a cup of black coffee (cream was absent for Lent) and a small dish of strawberries. “Their ministers instruct them to be solemn and gloomy all year round, so I suppose it evens out.” A logical Deist after the school of Jefferson and Voltaire, Rose herself was perfectly willing to eat beef – could the slender finances of the Janvier household have supported such extravagance in this hard-pinched, bank-deficient year of 1838 – had she not known it would silently grieve her devout husband, and quite vocally grieve Anne, the grandmother of the niece and nephew currently living under the Janvier roof.
Benjamin had gone – as he was periodically obliged to do thes...e days – to mend the family exchequer by taking a job in Washington City, but Gabriel and Zizi-Marie Corbier, in addition to being lively young people and excellent company, were of enormous help to Rose in the upkeep of the huge old Spanish house on the Rue Esplanade.MoreLess
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