Summaries and Commentaries

Chapter II

countenance    the look on a person’s face that shows one’s nature or feelings.

“The Poet and the Peasant”        an operetta by Franz von Suppé (1819–1895), Austrian conductor and composer of popular operettas.

Quartier Français    French Quarter, also known as the Old Quarter; the oldest part of New Orleans and the area in which most New Orleans’ Creoles lived.

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