text:  My father-in-law Monsieur Menou went on to my plantation but Julie remained with us as did also her aunt Madame Duras an agreeable old lady with a slight expression of perfidy in her light blue French-looking eyes possessed withal of infinite delicacy and _finesse_--a fervent admirer of the old court school of Louis the Fifteenth in the _chronique scandaleuse_ of which she was as well versed as if she had been herself a contemporary of that pleasure-loving monarch