Jane Eyre, Weathering Heights, And Sense And Sensibility

fledgling baker flew out the door, past any customers sipping tea, with the owner nipping at her heels while cursing in French and Creole. It was known throughout the Quarter that the madam demanded perfection in petit fours and unquestioning dedication from her staff. In exchange one of the luckier neophytes had once told March, She coaxes us through the birth pains on our journey to become superb French-educated pastry chefs extraordinaire, that is if we survive her wrath. The young woman who had dashed out screaming about being beaten, which was not true, and inept at baking, which possibly was, would not be seen again at least at Le Petite Patisseries. To the right of March s office sat the shop of an antiquarian, a seller of†¦show more content†¦If you were to walk down the service alley at the rear of their stores, you might walk right by Mr. Brockman’s other enterprise. It was nondescript, but once inside another story would unfold. Unless you had the righ t credentials, you’d be turned away by a gatekeeper straight from a James Cagney gangster movie, complete with a cigarette ready to expel an inch of ash dangling from the corner of his grimaced mouth. Yet, if you knew someone who could give you the right information or you had local connections, John Brockman, bookmaker, money lender and entrepreneur would be willing do to business. The steady stream of clients who walked to the back alley came from the top echelon in the city, like the Parish President, owner of the city’s exclusive hospitals and CEO’s of all the worker’s unions. Those unfortunates who stumbled around the French Quarter at all hours wouldn’t have thought to enter Brockman’s establishment and if they did give the door a knock, they’d quickly realize the dress code required was that of Antoine’s ritzy restaurant. With the Great Depression still gripping a good part of America, there was no effect on Brockman’s business enterprises; sin in all of its regalia never vanishes completely even when money was in scarce supply as it did then and remains the