Valmonde

We see a similar prose in Desiree's baby with the character "Madame Valmonde" who visits a mother and baby, in which the baby is sent to the funeral pyre for being mulatto (Andrews, William L.et. al., 1998, page 304-305).

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She did not take the broad, beaten road which led to the far-off plantation of Valmonde.

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For the girl grew to be beautiful and gentle, affectionate and sincere, -- the idol of Valmonde.

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Madame Valmonde had never removed her eyes from the child.

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Madame Valmonde had not seen Desiree and the baby for four weeks.

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French was the language spoken at Valmonde in those days.

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Madame Valmonde bent her portly figure over Desiree and kissed her, holding her an instant tenderly in her arms.

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Why, it seemed but yesterday that Desiree was little more than a baby herself; when Monsieur in riding through the gateway of Valmonde had found her lying asleep in the shadow of the big stone pillar.

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In time Madame Valmonde abandoned every speculation but the one that Desiree had been sent to her by a beneficent Providence to be the child of her affection, seeing that she was without child of the flesh.

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For the girl grew to be beautiful and gentle, affectionate and sincere, -- the idol of Valmonde.

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