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Updated: May 19, 2025
I have had that disease and know what's what." I, too, had had it in the Philippine Islands, and I was amazed that it was infectious. How could he have got it? "Alors," replied the physician, "where has he taken meals?" "Lovaina's, Fanny's, and some with the Chinese." The Frenchman threw his arms around the door in mock horror. He gagged and spat, exciting the cowboy into a fever.
A new himene was improvised about it, and I heard the girls of the Maison des Cocotiers chanting it as I went to Lovaina's to dinner. It was something like this in English: "Oh, the British men they drank all day And threw the limes and iron. The French in fear they ran away. The brave Tahitians alone stood firm." And there were many more verses.
I doubt if they were paid more than a trifle, and they were from the country districts or near-by islands, moths drawn by the flame of the town to soar in its feverish heat, to singe their wings, and to grow old before their time, or to grasp the opportunity to satiate their thirst for foreign luxuries by semi-permanent alliances with whites. Lovaina's girls!
It's signed, 'Your affectionate guardian, James Kitson, Baron Airedale of Gledhow." "Whew!" spluttered Hobson, "the blighter has no limits. Do you mean to tell me he gets away with that folderol?" "For months he has lived at Lovaina's, Fanny's, and even on the Chinese. He has borrowed thousands of francs, and spent it for drink and often for champagne.
All were on a footing as to the arrangements, and I saw the haughty duchess of the Noa-Noa follow Lovaina's American negro chauffeur, while a former ambassador waited on the chest.
Pepe of Papara, and Tehau of Papeari, their eyes flashing, their bosoms rising and falling tumultuously, and their voices and bodies alternating in their expressions of passion, were joined by Temanu of Lovaina's, the oblique-eyed girl whom they called a half-Chinese, but whose ancestral tree, she said, showed no celestial branch.
He became indignant, and in pantomime vividly described the suffering of guests at the Tiare with the ice exhausted, and Lovaina's plight if she could sell no more drinks. Lovaina persisted, and when I went to take the ice myself, he struck me with his horsewhip.
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