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"No doubt he and that anointed sweep Bilker are having a very happy time together." "Father," said the girl in the native tongue, as he put down his cup, "Banderah is here. He came but now, and will not come inside, but waits for thee in the copra-house, lest he be seen talking to thee."
“That looks like business, though,” said I. “That’s the first sale we’ve made in three weeks,” said he. “You don’t tell me?” says I. “Three weeks? Well, well.” “If you don’t believe me,” he cries, a little hot, “you can go and look at the copra-house. It’s half empty to this blessed hour.”
We got in close to the reef, and could see that the trader's copra-house was full, for there were also hundreds of bags outside, awaiting our boats. It was clearly worth staying for. The trader, a tall, thin, pyjama-clad man, came down to the water's edge, waved his long arm, and then turned back and sat down on a bag of copra.
"That looks like business, though," said I. "That's the first sale we've made in three weeks," said he. "You don't tell me?" says I. "Three weeks? Well, well." "If you don't believe me," he cries, a little hot, "you can go and look at the copra-house. It's half empty to this blessed hour."
"What the devil is wrong?" muttered Blount, as without waiting to touch the coffee prepared for him he went outside to the copra-house. In half an hour he and the native chief came out together, and as they stood for a minute in the broad streak of light that streamed out from the lamp on the table in the big room, Taya, who sat in the doorway, saw her father's face was set and stern-looking.
'See Kanaka 'peak in a big outch! he cried, with a strong ring of sarcasm. Yet he endured the subversive spectacle, and might even have continued to endure it, had not a fresh point arisen. He looked again, to employ his own figure; and the Kanaka was no longer speaking, he was doing worse he was building a copra-house.
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