French Quarter resembled canals; the rain descending from a sky which half an hour earlier had been as innocently blue as a babys eyes, ro Ued in smoky waves down pointed Jf sand Spouted Wp jecting gutters; ihe slender arcs on either side interlaced in mid-air to plunge, a frothing column, into the rising flood below. Canal Street was for the moment a wide lagoon; the thoroughfares beyond sent up a reek of mud and ooze to meet the deluge. In the Garden District, magnolia and rose-bush cast upon miniature seas a vain sacrifice of snow-white and rose-red. The innumerable Confederate flags, which everywhere lent a bright touch of color to a background of brick and stucco drooped, washed-out and lifeless, from staff, window-sill, and balcony.
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