J!<br > CANE PdVER, LOUISIANA--1834<br > On the morning of her ninth birthday, the day after Madame<br > Fran~oise Derbanne slapped her, Suzette peed on the rosebushes.<br > Before the plantation bell sounded she had startled awake, tuned her<br > ears to the careless breathing of Mam zelle above her in the four-<br > poster bed, listened for movement from the rest of the sleeping house-<br > hold, and quietly pushed herself up from her straw pallet on the floor.<br > Suzette made her way quickly down the narrow hall, beyond the<br > wall altar, and past the polished mahogany grandfather clock in the<br > front room, careful to sidestep the squeaky board by the front door.<br > Outside on the gallery, her heart thudded so wildly that the curios-<br > it3 of the sound helped soften the fear. Her breath felt too big for<br > her chest as she inched past the separate entrance to the stranger s<br > room and around to the side of the big house where the prized<br > i bushes waited.<br > Barefoot into the darkness, aided only by the slightest remnant<br > of the Louisiana summer moon, she chose Madame s favorite, a<br >i sprawling rosebush with delicate pale yellow flowers and visible<br > roots as long as her father s fiddling bow.<br > The task didn t take Ions. ~oinz and coming back, and Oreline s<br >
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