Social life in old New Orleans

SOCIAL LIFE IN OLD NEW ORLEANS
The Author at Twenty-two
Painted by Moïse
SOCIAL LIFE IN OLD NEW ORLEANS
Being Recollections of my Girlhood
BY ELIZA RIPLEY
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK AND LONDON D. APPLETON AND COMPANY MCMXII
Copyright, 1912, by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Printed in the United States of America
To MY CHILDREN and MY CHILDREN’S CHILDREN and to THEIR CHILDREN TO COME
Far more vivid than the twilight of the days in which I dwell, there rises before my inner eye the vision, aglow in Southern sunshine, of the days that are gone, never to return, but which formed the early chapters of a life that has been lived, that can never be lived again.