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It never grow good after like before." Her hair was quite two feet long and very luxuriant, and like all Tahitian hair, simply in two plaits. Brooke expressed his curiosity over what Lovaina had said, "jus' like all T'ytee woman." "Was that a custom of Tahiti mothers, to bury their babes alive at birth?" he asked. Lovaina blushed.
And Lovaina said, in English for Considine, whom she had brought to Mataiea, and for Brooke: "She had five children by that Tuatini. He is custom-officer at Makatea, phosphate island, near T'ytee. He been gone one year, an' she get very fat, but she don' say one thing. Then she get letter speakin' he come back nex' week.
Then gendarme take hol' Pepe, and she tell right out she 'fraid for her husban', an' when babee born she go in night an' dig hole an' plant her babee under rosebush. Now, maybe white people say that Pepe jus' like all T'ytee woman."
One ol' T'ytee woman she work for her to keep all chil'ren clean, an' eat, an' she notice two day ago one mornin' she more thin. She ask her, 'Where that babee? She say the varua, a bad devil, take it.
Turkey-red muslin with a large, white diamond figure was pasted on the plaster walls and hung in the doorways. "It very bes' the baroness could do in T'ytee," explained Lovaina. "She must be bright all about, and she buy and fix rooms. She have whole top floor Annexe, and spen' money like gentleman, two or three thousand dollar' every month. I wish you know her.
She write once say she come back T'ytee some day by'n'by. She love T'ytee somethin' crazee." At the Cercle Bougainville Captain William Pincher told me more of the baroness. "Is the bloody meat-safe still on the back porch? The baroness made a voyage with me to the Paumotus just for the air. She sat on deck all the time, rain or shine.
My father give me that house, now Tiare Hotel, for weddin' present. All furnish. You should see that marry! My God! there was bottle in yard all broken. Admiral French fleet send band; come hisself with all his officer'. Five o'clock mornin'-time still dance and drink. Bigges' time T'ytee. You not walk barefoot long time 'count broken glass everywhere."
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