We should not attempt to comprise our pasts in the phrase, "in those days;" we should rather say "in those days and nights." That night was a long-remembered one to the apothecary of the rue Royale.

But it was after he had closed his shop, and in his back room sat pondering the unusual experiences of the evening, that it began to be, in a higher degree, a night of events to most of those persons who had a part in its earlier incidents.
That Honore Grandissime whom Frowenfeld had only this day learned to know as _the_ Honore Grandissime and the young governor-general were closeted together.
"What can you expect, my-de'-seh ?" the Creole was asking, as they confronted each other in the smoke of their choice tobacco.

"Remember, they are citizens by compulsion.

You say your best and wisest law is that one prohibiting the slave-trade; my-de'-seh, I assure you, privately, I agree with you; but they abhor your law! "Your principal danger--at least, I mean difficulty--is this: that the Louisianais themselves, some in pure lawlessness, some through loss of office, some in a vague hope of preserving the old condition of things, will not only hold off from all participation in your government, but will make all sympathy with it, all advocacy of its principles, and especially all office-holding under it, odious--disreputable--infamous.
You may find yourself constrained to fill your offices with men who can face down the contumely of a whole people.

You know what such men generally are.