text: " "Ha ha!" said I a little sarcastically and glancing at the man's straw hat and unbleached trousers and jacket; "Monsieur Menou--the plain and unsophisticated Monsieur Menou also a _haut-ton_ man?" "My wife was a M----y; my grandfather was president of the Toulouse parliament " replied the Creole quietly to my somewhat impertinent remark