In the canon
A Night in Acadie
- Form
- Form Short Story Collection
- Year
- Year 1897
- Pages
- Pages 200
Mamzelle Aurélie is fifty, farms her own land in a man's hat and boots, and has never once wanted a husband. Four small children are left with her for a fortnight, and when the cart carries them away again she sits down in the dark and cries the way a man cries, with sobs that seem to tear her very soul.
She called marriage a trap set for the feet of unwary and unsuspecting girls
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