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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories by Alice Dunbar: bit of madame's bread and meat and coffee thrown in for
lagniappe; and Mr. Baptiste would depart, filled and contented,
leaving the load of fruit behind as madame's pay. Thus did he
eat, and his clients were many, and never too tired or too cross
to cook his meals and get their pay in baskets of fruit.
One day he slipped in at Madame Garcia's kitchen door with such a
woe-begone air, and slid a small sack of nearly ripe plantains on
the table with such a misery-laden sigh, that madame, who was fat
and excitable, threw up both hands and cried out:
"Mon Dieu, Mistare Baptiste, fo' w'y you look lak dat? What ees
de mattare?"
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