High School Reading Grades 11 12 Quiz
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From "Aunt Marguerite's Parlor," a short story set in Louisiana, 1889:
When visitors came to the house on Rue Dauphine—and in those years many came, for Aunt Marguerite's parlor was reckoned among the pleasantest in the Quarter—they were shown first into the front room, with its rosewood pianoforte, its French windows opening upon the balcony, and its portrait of the late Colonel in his militia uniform above the mantel. Here Aunt Marguerite received them, poured coffee from a silver service that had belonged to her mother, and conversed in the fluent, slightly antique French of her girlhood upon such topics as befit a lady of her station: the health of relations, the last opera at the French house, the recent marriage of some remote cousin at Baton Rouge.
It was only after several visits, and only if she judged them worthy of the honor, that a guest might be led—almost inadvertently, as it seemed—into the small back parlor. This room contained no pianoforte and no portraits. It contained an enormous walnut secretary crowded with account books, a map of the parish upon which each of her tenant farms was marked in a hand at once elegant and pitiless, and a great ledger in which, so it was whispered among her nieces, Aunt Marguerite recorded not only the sums owed her but the moral character of every debtor. In this room she spoke English, and she did not offer coffee.
The story's use of the two parlors most likely functions to:
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