[Illustration: "ALL THAT DAY WAS DESP0NDENCY, DEJECTI0N."]

And Zepherin? A man could much better describe his side of that month; forit, too, has mostly to be described from imagination or experience.What is inferred is that what Adorine longed and thought and lookedin silence and resignation, according to woman's way, he sufferedequally, but in a man's way, which is not one of silence orresignation,--at least when one is a man of eighteen,--the lastinterview, the near wedding, her beauty, his love, her home in sight,the full moon, the long, wakeful nights.

He took his pirogue; but the bayou played with his impatience,maddened his passion, bringing him so near, to meander with him againso far away. There was only a short prairie between him and ----, aprairie thick with lily-roots--one could almost walk over theirheads, so close, and gleaming in the moonlight. But this is all onlyinference.