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But Allen caught at the matter instantly, and understood to whom Bolderwood referred by his appellation of "the serpent." "You mean to say you've got Simon Halpen?" he asked. "That's the identical sarpint, Colonel," declared the ranger. "We caught him tryin' ter cross to Old Ti and thought it was best, under the sarcumstances, ter keep him close till this leetle business is over.
Round his waist was a girdle of bright yellow strips of plantain leaves, mixed with the scarlet leaves of the ti plant; a band of pearl-shell ornaments encircled his forehead, and his long, black hair, perfumed with scented oil, was twisted up in a high spiral knob, and ornamented with scarlet hibiscus flowers.
He, to whom the world was prostrate, the universe were slaves, longed for an amorous captivity and sighed for chains. But where was the maiden to be found worthy to place fetters upon the brother of the sun and moon the magnificent master of the universe? Where was she to be found? Ti-tum, tilly-lilly, ti-tum, ti.
Such appeared, indeed, to be the case, for in a little while a courier arrived at the 'Ti', almost breathless with his exertions, and communicated the news of a great victory having been achieved by his countrymen: 'Happar poo arva!
I will give an instance of their fraternal feeling. One day, in returning with Kory-Kory from my accustomed visit to the Ti, we passed by a little opening in the grove; on one side of which, my attendant informed me, was that afternoon to be built a dwelling of bamboo.
Non credo io, no, che ardente fiamma Il cor ti avvampi." The ineffable grace of her action, simple without redundancy, her exquisite elocution, her deep yet controlled passion, and the magic of a voice thrilling even in a whisper this form of Phidias with the genius of Sophocles entirely enraptured a fastidious audience.
I was present at the Ti on one of these occasions, and the sight was most interesting. After all the packages had arrived, they were laid in a row under the verandah of the building and opened. The fish were all quite small, generally about the size of a herring, and of every variety.
There was a storm cloud drifting across Old Ti as the expressman climbed to his wagon seat and drove away from the Inn. It had been a very hot day and was now late afternoon just the hour for a summer tempest. The tiny waves lapped the loose shingle along the lake shore. There was the hot smell of over-cured grass on the uplands.
But first he struck his instrument and ran over a short prelude, which may be imagined by a series of false notes, running as follows: Ti-tum, ti-tum, tilly-lilly, tilly-lilly, ti-tum, ti-tum, tilly-lilly, tilly-lilly, ti-tum, ti. As he proceeded in his story, whenever he was out of breath, he stopped, and struck a few notes of his barbarous music.
Field flushed up when he saw one of the rolls: it was tied with a string, and a bit of paper about it was marked in pencil, partly obliterated, "Long Fellow of Ti." He put that package into his pocket with the' other things, and left the other roll of money on the table. "You two people have done uncommonly neighborly by me," he said. "I should like to know your reason."
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