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Updated: April 30, 2025
"Oxia used to have a convent, but it is abandoned now. There may be some hermits in the caves on the other side, but I doubt if the poor wretches have noumias to keep their altars in candles. It was so hard to coax visitors into believing God had ever anything to do with the dreary place that patrons concluded to give it over to the bad. Plati is a trifle more cheerful.
"In advance?" "Yes." "Jump in, then and get out your money fifty-five noumias while I push through these howling water-dogs." By the time the boat was clear of the pack, truly enough the passenger was with the fare in hand. "Look," she said, "here is a bezant." At sight of the gold piece, the man's countenance darkened, and he stopped rowing. "I can't change that.
Sometimes he would treat the subject facetiously: "If the girl were here, I should know it, and if I knew it ha, ha, ha! are bezants in gold by the thousand more precious to you than to me? Do you think I too would not like to be rich? I who live doggedly on three noumias, helped now and then by scanty palm-salves from travellers?" This treatment was successful.
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