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Onoto was an artist too, and the pique she felt at first over Annouchka's success could not last after the emotion aroused by the evening prayer before the hut. "Come to supper," Annouchka had said to her. "With whom?" inquired the Spanish artist. "With Gounsovski." "Never." "Do come. You will help me pay my debt and perhaps he will be useful to you as well. He is useful to everybody."
"I see that I am in a country of acquaintances," he said, without appearing disturbed. He addressed a lively compliment to Annouchka, who threw him a kiss. "Rouletabille!" cried la belle Onoto. "Why, then, he is the little fellow who solved the mystery of the Yellow Room." "Himself." "What are you doing here?" "He came to save the life of General Trebassof," sniggered Gounsovski.
The red pigment of chica is not obtained from the fruit, like the onoto, but from the leaves macerated in water. The colouring matter separates in the form of a light powder. It is collected, without being mixed with turtle-oil, into little lumps eight or nine inches long, and from two to three high, rounded at the edges. These lumps, when heated, emit an agreeable smell of benzoin.
When evaporated they have an inappreciable residue which consists of a little silica and a trace of alkali; their temperature is only 44.5 degrees, and the bubbles of air which are disengaged at intervals are at Onoto, as well as in the thermal waters of Mariara, pure nitrogen. The quantities are so small that the water is altogether without taste.
She paid attention to no one. Her attitude was forbidding, even hostile. She indifferently allowed her marvelous black hair that fell in two tresses over her shoulder to be caressed by the perfumed hands of the beautiful Onoto, who had heard her this evening for the first time and had thrown herself with enthusiasm into her arms after the last number.
His cold and silent gravity, the respect with which he was treated by his attendants, everything denoted him to be a person of importance. He was equipped, however, in the same manner as his Indians. They were all equally naked, armed with bows and arrows, and painted with onoto, which is the colouring fecula of the Bixa orellana.
"Eh," replied Gounsovski, "I let you know that all you had to do was to take a fine apartment in the city." Annouchka spat on the ground like a teamster, and Gounsovski from yellow turned green. "But why did you hide yourself that way, Annouchka?" asked Onoto as she caressed the beautiful tresses of the singer. "You know I had been condemned to death, and then pardoned.
"You'll write and tell me everything that's in your old head, won't you?" Luke felt that he ought not to write. Mabel would not like it. It would be wrong. "Thanks," he said, "we so seldom have any postage stamps in the house. And I've lost my Onoto pen, and I sprained my wrist falling off my bicycle." "Oh, do write, Lukie dear." She held out her hand to him.
It is then "anoto," sometimes written "arnatto," sometimes "arnotto," sometimes "onoto," and sometimes "anato." The first is the proper spelling. In Brazil it is called "urucu," whence the French name "rocou;" and the Peruvians have still another designation for it, "achote." Of course each tribe of Indians calls it by a separate name.
"And if you have a brother whom you love, Onoto, think how much more amusing it must be to have him shot before you." "Oh, my love, forgive me!" "So you may know and not give any pain to your Annouchka in the future, I will tell you, madame, what happened to our dear friend," said Prince Galitch.
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