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You have a pretty niece, and you must arrange your life accordingly; that's to say, you mustn't do what she doesn't wish. You must pardon me for saying all this straight out to your face, but you know chi ha nel petto fiele, non pu sputar miele what the heart is full of comes out at the lips.
Do you imagine for one moment that I sailed my schooner down here to this raw edge of the earth in order to put myself under a chaperone?" "But really . . . er . . . you know a chaperone is a necessary evil," he objected. "We've got along very nicely so far without one. Did I have one on the Miele? And yet I was the only woman on board.
And when we were safely through, in the twilight, where the chart shows fourteen fathoms as the shoalest water, we smashed on a coral patch. The poor old Miele struck only once, and then went clear; but it was too much for her, and we just had time to clear away in the boat when she went down. The German mate was drowned. We lay all night to a sea-drag, and next morning sighted your place here."
Cocoanut-planting was his particular idea, with trading, and maybe pearling, along with other things, until the plantation should come into bearing. He traded off his yacht for a schooner, the Miele, and away we went. I took care of him and studied navigation. He was his own skipper. We had a Danish mate, Mr. Ericson, and a mixed crew of Japanese and Hawaiians.
Noa Noah was her head sailor, who had been boatswain of the Miele. "Where are you going?" Sheldon asked in surprise. "Vlaburi! You stop." "To Guvutu immediately," was her reply. "But I won't permit it." "That is why I am going. You said it once before, and it is something I cannot brook." "What?" He was bewildered by her sudden anger. "If I have offended in any way "
I should say some thousands of nymphs are constantly engaged in weaving garlands there, and the swains keep such a piping on those familiar notes, Amore, dolore, crudele, and miele. Poor little poets! they knew no other tunes. Do not now weak voices twitter from a hundred books, in unconscious imitation of the hour's great singers?
There were two Americans in the place, and they warned me to leave the law alone unless I wanted to leave the Miele behind as well. "Then I sent to New Zealand and got a German mate. He had a master's certificate, and was on the ship's papers as captain, but I was a better navigator than he, and I was really captain myself. I lost her, too, but it's no reflection on my seamanship.
Another kind of water also very matutinal in its delivery, the "Aqua vita," is intonated by the Aquavitario, in a sharp kestrel key, hear him! Now, list to two men carrying a large deep tub of honey between them, and bellowing in rapid alternation, "Miele, miele," and say if their accents are mellifluous!
"I have told you," he began stiffly, "that recruiting on Malaita is impossible for a woman, and that is all I care to say or dare." "And I tell you, in turn, that it is nothing of the sort. I've sailed the Miele here, master, if you please, all the way from Tahiti even if I did lose her, which was the fault of your Admiralty charts.
"Me sail along Missie Lackalanna her schooner Miele. We go Tahiti, Raiatea, Tahaa, Bora-Bora, Manua, Tutuila, Apia, Savaii, and Fiji Islands plenty Fiji Islands. Me stop along Missie Lackalanna in Solomons. Very soon she catch other schooner." "He and I were the two survivors of the wreck of the Huahine," Tudor explained to the others.
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