Excerpt from A Golden Wedding: And Other Tales T was Christmas Eve in New Orleans, and the air was fragrant with the mingled perfume of sweet Olive, violets, and roses, while lace curtains, floating in and out of second story Windows, caught and wafted into sunny chambers a hint of orange blossoms lured into untimely bloom by the treacherous wooing Of a Southern December. SO Christmas was coming to two Old people who sat today on the front porch of a little hovel back of town. Each sat in front of a door, and they were separated by a board partition which divided the house into tenements. A man sat on one side, a woman on the other. Both were old, both black, both silent and contemplative. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.