Desiree's Baby Quotations

Question 1

“The passion that awakened in him that day … swept along like an avalanche.”

Question 2

“He ordered the corbeille from Paris”

Question 3

“What did it matter about a name when he could give her one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana.”

Question 4

“Armand heard him the other day as far away as La Blanche’s cabin.”

Question 5

“I believe, chiefly because it is a boy to bear his name”

Question 6

“one of La Blanche’s quadroon boys.”

Question 7

“As white as La Blanche’s”

Question 8

“‘Do you want me to go?’ ‘Yes I want you to go.’”

Question 9

“He thought almighty God had dealt cruelly and unjustly with him … when he stabbed thus into his wife’s soul.”

Question 10

“Young Aubigny’s rule was a strict one, too, and under it his negroes had forgotten how to be gay.”

Question 11

“Moreover, he no longer loved her, because of the unconcious injury she has brought upon his home and name.”