"And even the honest immigrant is welcome only when he leaves his peculiar opinions behind him.

Is that right, sir ?" The Creole smiled at Frowenfeld's heat.
"My-de'-seh, my cousins complain that you advocate measures fatal to the prevailing order of society." "But," replied the unyielding Frowenfeld, turning redder than ever, "that is the very thing that American liberty gives me the right--peaceably--to do! Here is a structure of society defective, dangerous, erected on views of human relations which the world is abandoning as false; yet the immigrant's welcome is modified with the warning not to touch these false foundations with one of his fingers." "Did you tell my cousins the foundations of society here are false ?" "I regret to say I did, very abruptly.

I told them they were privately aware of the fact." "You may say," said the ever-amiable Creole, "that you allowed debate to run into controversy, eh ?" Frowenfeld was silent; he compared the gentleness of this Creole's rebukes with the asperity of his advocacy of right, and felt humiliated.
But M.Grandissime spoke with a rallying smile.
"Mr.Frowenfeld, you never make pills with eight corners eh ?" "No, sir." The apothecary smiled.
"No, you make them round; cannot you make your doctrines the same way?
My-de'-seh, you will think me impertinent; but the reason I speak is because I wish very much that you and my cousins would not be offended with each other.

To tell you the truth, my-de'-seh, I hoped to use you with them--pardon my frankness." "If Louisiana had more men like you, M.Grandissime," cried the untrained Frowenfeld, "society would be less sore to the touch." "My-de'-seh," said the Creole, laying his hand out toward his companion and turning his horse in such a way as to turn the other also, "do me one favor; remember that it _is_ sore to the touch." The animals picked their steps down the inner face of the levee and resumed their course up the road at a walk.
"Did you see that man just turn the bend of the road, away yonder ?" the Creole asked.
"Yes." "Did you recognize him ?" "It was--my landlord, wasn't it ?" "Yes.

Did he not have a conversation with you lately, too ?" "Yes, sir; why do you ask ?" "It has had a bad effect on him.