At one point, the main character of this work expresses delight that her husband has been unusually lenient to his slaves lately Â– "even Negrillon, who pretended to have burnt his leg that he might rest from work" Â– he only laughed and called him a great scamp.
At one point, the main character of this work expresses delight that her husband has been unusually lenient to his slaves lately Â– "even Negrillon, who pretended to have burnt his leg that he might rest from work" Â– he only laughed and called him a great scamp. She is forced to return to her adoptive mother, Madame Valmonde, and opts not to take the road, instead walking across a deserted field which bruises her tender feet and tears her thin gown to shreds. That title woman had been courted by Armand Aubigny, but he sent her away upon finding that their child was a quadroon Â– he only later discovers from some letters that he is the one who is half-black. A story which appeared in the ►collection Bayou Folk, FTP, name this piece of short fiction by Kate Chopin, titled after the central woman's child.  
At one point, the main character of this work expresses delight that her husband has been unusually lenient to his slaves lately Â– "even Negrillon, who pretended to have burnt his leg that he might rest from work" Â– he only laughed and called him a great scamp.
"Desiree's Baby"