Maha barada biography of michael

Laughing Buffalo

A Peripatetic Teacher and . . .

It was a spring day in Paris in 1780, and Michael Barada (Baradat), was 20.

As he sauntered along a fashionable street, very gay in the silk, ribbons and ruffles of a young French gallant of the court of Louis XVI; he surveyed the world with a roving, adventurous eye and felt within him the vague, exciting expectancy with which spring brings to youth.

Maha barada biography of michael

He strutted a little, his sword in its jeweled scabbard swinging jauntily.

In front of the house of a nobleman, Michael halted abruptly, something had dropped at his feet from one of the windows. It was a rose, romantically red.

The youth glanced swiftly and saw, framed in the window, the piquant face of a girl. He had time for just a glimpse of white teeth and smiling lips and a moment's look into the dark seductive eyes. Then the casement closed-cutting off a murmur of soft laughter.

Michael picked up the rose and went on his way.