You will be only the width of the street apart." But Madame Delphine would go nowhere but to her home.

Olive she would not allow to go with her.

Then they wanted to send a servant or two to sleep in the house with her for aid and protection; but all she would accept was the transient service of a messenger to invite two of her kinspeople--man and wife--to come and make their dwelling with her.
In course of time these two--a poor, timid, helpless pair--fell heir to the premises.

Their children had it after them; but, whether in those hands or these, the house had its habits and continued in them; and to this day the neighbors, as has already been said, rightly explain its close-sealed, uninhabited look by the all-sufficient statement that the inmates "is quadroons.".