Did you ever see anything more roguish than her expression while she was singing 'Petit blanc, mon bon frere' ?" "That mercurial little song excited my curiosity," replied Alfred.
"Pray what is its origin ?" "I think it likely it came from the French West Indies," said Fitzgerald.

"It seems to be the love-song of a young negress, addressed to a white lover.

Floracita may have learned it from her mother, who was half French, half Spanish.

You doubtless observed the foreign sprinkling in their talk.

They told me they never spoke English with their mother.