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To-day the Fiji man appeared in war paint his nose blackened and black stripes under his eyes. Lafaele says the war is soon going to begin, adding 'Please, Tamaitai, you look out; when Samoa man fight he all same devil. While we were talking low, dull thunder was rolling around the horizon, sounding, as we thought, very like the noise of battle.
"We stayed all night out at Ori's place, and as a mark of honor my husband was given Louis's bed and I was given Tamaitai's. Ori's wife, a little dear, kissed our hands all round because we came from Tamaitai. Their love and admiration for her was so sincere and touching it is the sweetest memory I have of Tahiti.
It was as Tusitala, the writer of tales, that Louis was best known, his wife was called Aolele, flying cloud, and her daughter, because of her kindness in giving ribbons and other little trinkets to the girls, was named Teuila, the decorator. Tamaitai is a general title, meaning "Madam," and is used in reference to the lady of the house. Mr.
"When the cover was taken off and used as a saucer it had on its concave side: 'A child should always say what's true And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table, At least as far as he is able. "Tamaitai had had a very critical operation during the previous autumn, and was still comparatively invalided with the effects of it.
He was more than interested in everything relating to Louis and Tamaitai, asking all sorts of questions, intelligent ones, too, about their life in Samoa; then in San Francisco; about Tamaitai's personal appearance if her hair was gray; whether she had a town house and country house, and whether they were near the ocean and the mountains.
Louis Sanchez lent a ready hand to repairs and under his magic fingers doors swung upon their hinges, tables ceased to wabble, door-knobs turned, and even a comfortable rocking-chair "for Tamaitai" emerged from a hopeless wreck. Mrs.
Strong writes of it on October 8: "Everybody is well of the measles by now and all are crawling out into the sunshine. There have been a hundred and fifty deaths on this island alone. Our Sosimo was taken ill down in the town. Tamaitai and I went down to see him, and, finding him in a wretched state, had him brought home in a native sling on a pole, the way they carry wounded soldiers.
Tusitala, I will work for you all my life, and my family shall work for your family, and there shall be no question of wage between us, only loving-kindness. My life is yours, and I will be your servant till I die." It was in Samoa that Mrs. Stevenson acquired the name of Tamaitai, by which she was known thenceforth to her family and intimate friends until the day of her death.
A number of canoes were to be seen coming round the point at the mouth of the harbor, and as they came nearer we could hear the oarsmen singing and could distinguish our names. They were bringing so they sang the fish to Tamaitai Aolele they had been out all night gathering turtles for Tamaitai Teuila. "Later in the day there was a grand talolo, or ceremony of gift giving.
A little child Frank Norris's daughter said, with an acuteness beyond her years: "Tamaitai smiles with her lips, but not with her eyes."
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