Excerpt from Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: April 1902 Here comes Diane. You will have entertainment until I return. Up the walk from the road gate came the girl, dressed in the loose gown of the country; but as she approached she attracted attention as being out of the ordinary. Her superb height and statuesque figure were the more striking because of her simple covering. Her features were almost Grecian in their outline, and the thick fleece of hair was soft and tractable. She was of a type rarely seen among the blacks, the facial angle and delicate hands and feet being almost peculiar to a few families residing near Aux Cayes on the south side of the island. She had the erect carriage of the people, but she had not the jerking movement of the hips generally seen among women accustomed to carry burdens on their heads. I came to see Alcide, she said, after bidding them good-morning. She sat on the steps leading to the porch, her chin resting on the palm of her hand, her eyes fixed on the ground. Alcide left to look after the horse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.