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Updated: June 26, 2025
I'm glad I've done that. It's a big prop to a man's conscience to feel he hasn't done anything mean; and she likes money most women do. Of course I'll go back if she writes. If not well, then, these sinful islands can claim me for their own; that is, Nalia can."
"O wise man with the shaven crown," said Challis, with mocking good nature, "thou art full of wisdom of the ways of women. And if I were old and withered, would Nalia then be false to me in a house of another and younger white man?" "How could she? Would not he, too, have a wife who would watch her? And all women are alike," and then, hearing a woman's voice calling his name, he stood up.
"FAIAGA OE, Tialli, thou but playest with me. Raise thy hand and call out 'I thirst! and every woman in the village will run to thee, each with a drinking-nut, and those that desire thee, but are afraid, will give two. But to come inside when Nalia is away would be to put shame on her." The white man mused. The boy's solemn chatter entertained him.
A curious feeling of satisfaction possessed the man, and next day Letia, the "show" girl of the village, visiting Challis's store to buy a tin of salmon, saw Nalia, the Lucky One, seated on a mat beneath the seaward side of the trader's house, surrounded by a billowy pile of yellow silk, diligently sewing. "Ho, dear friend of my heart! Is that silken dress for thee?
A native boy with shaven head, save for a long tuft on the left side, came down from the village, and, seating himself on the gravelled space inside the fence, gazed at the white man with full, lustrous eyes. "Hallo, TAMA!" said Challis, "whither goest now?" "Pardon, Tialli. I came to look at thee making the ring. Is it of soft silver and for Nalia, thy wife?" "Ay, O shaven-head, it is.
Ere dusk, Nalia came home, a slenderly-built girl with big dreamy eyes, and a heavy mantle of wavy hair. A white muslin gown, fastened at the throat with a small silver brooch, was her only garment, save the folds of the navy-blue-and-white LAVA LAVA round her waist, which the European-fashioned garment covered. Challis was lying down when she came in.
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