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among the islands, the social conditions modelled

on French ideas instead of American, In which the

touch of the tar brush passes unnoticed, are

touched upon. She describes a Haytien officer of

the Black Republic, resplendent In gold lace, but

barefoot. She was irresistibly impressed that she

was In the midst of an “opera bouffe, with negroes

playing at government.” But then she strolled

away, out beyond the President's palace, “to where

a row of houses, evidently homes of the Haytien

‘four hundred,” hidden away behind high French

gateways and walls, were draped from the glare

of the white sun under glistening leaves of heavy

foliage. Red, red flowers, high up in the tops of

trees, hung like drops of blood over the crumbling,

broken fountains. A sad little marble Cupid still

pirouetted in stony glee over a stained and dried

up basin. The gateway, a wonder in chiselled

stone and blossoming fron, was all but hidden in

a mass of tangled vines. I stood enchanted before

the outspreading garden; and then a woman of

wondrous face came down the steps of the man

sion and out into the garden toward me.

“Down the path she eame with a swift and

graceful movement, not walking, but gliding; her

sarments fell from her in loose, sweeping lines of

grace. As she approached a delicate pink flush

overspread her olive face, while with an exquisite

charm, in most perfect French, she invited me to

the cool seclusion of her veranda. She was the

color of a hazel nut. Her hair hung in two long,

glorious braids, just half inclined to wave in sweet

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

New-York tribune. (1903). New York [N.Y.], 1903-12-09. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1903-12-09/ed-1/?sp=9

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: New-York tribune, 1903-12-09.