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Mélisande (continued)
Again, Mélisande watched and waited. She allowed David to notice her and then to follow her. She ended her other liaisons so that she might be available as much as possible. She arranged that David should see her again and again and again, until they met. She allowed him to see that no other woman could match her and that she would be faithful, loyal, and a committed partner if asked. She allowed him to propose marriage, and she accepted. “Bien sûr, David, bien sûr.”
And so it was, that Mélisande Peau-de-Soie Noir de Guise, as she now styled herself, one of New Orleans’ greatest beauties, married David Alexander Snodgrass from the Village of Snod Grass on the banks of the Garnock River just above its union with the Irish Sea. They went upriver to Dubuque, Iowa, it is believed, and migrated inland, where they established a long line of farming families, from whom Jeffrey Snodgrass and Landon Carter are descended.
 
 
© Langston Snodgrass (September / October 2005, April 2007, May 2013)
 
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