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"'See, said one of these men of Niuafou to us vauntingly, 'see what has come to pass! Tuilagi refused to take for her husband the good and pious man Opataia, but fled with this common white man, who is no better than a heathen. And then what comes? This bad white man is caught by his countrymen and put in a prison with chains upon his body.
Surely if this man desires me for his house he can speak to me with his own mouth, and not through thine. "So her father went without the house, and Opataia, the white man, remained with Tui.
"And then from beneath her gown did Tui take out a little gun that fires six bullets; and as the fat man, Opataia, pressed her to his bosom and heeded not what she did, she placed the mouth of the little gun to the side of his fat head. Then she said
"'Get thee ready, thou wicked woman, said her father roughly to her; 'get thee ready quickly to leave this heathen land and return to thy own country, where thou shalt be wife to this good man, Opataia, who desires thee still. "'It is well, my father, said Tui; 'but yet leave us now for a little.
So now the King comes for his daughter, for even now is Opataia willing to take her, though she is but of little worth, to my mind. "While they spoke thus to us, Tepuaka and his white friend had gone to thy house, and there did Tui, thy wife, meet them with smiles to hide what lay in her heart.
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