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My conscience smote me when we joined hands; and when she got her certificate I was tempted to throw up the bargain and confess. Here is the document. It was Case that wrote it, signatures and all, in a leaf out of the ledger: This is to certify that Uma, daughter of Fa'avao of Falesá, Island of , is illegally married to Mr. John Wiltshire for one week, and Mr.
Being asked to solicit the boon she wished, she begged of the deity my defeat. 'Thou shalt slay him, were the words the god said unto that lady of great force of mind. Thus assured, the maiden, however, once more said unto Rudra, 'How can it happen, O god, that being a woman I shall yet be able to achieve victory in battle. O lord of Uma, as a woman, my heart is quite stilled.
Tiapolo he small chief—he like too much make-see, work very hard.” “I’ll have to hand you over to Mr. Tarleton,” said I. “Your theology’s out of its bearings, Uma.” However, we stuck to this business all the evening, and, with the stories she told me of the desert and its dangers, she came near frightening herself into a fit.
"All right," I said, "go and make excuses somewhere else. Here's my way, there's yours!" With that we parted, and I went straight home, in a hot temper, and found Uma trying on a lot of trade goods like a baby. "Here," I said, "you quit that foolery! Here's a pretty mess to have made, as if I wasn't bothered enough anyway! And I thought I told you to get dinner!"
She was helping me with a Bengali primer, what time I could spare my gaze from the near-by parrots eating ripe margosa fruit. Uma complained of a boil on her leg, and fetched a jar of ointment. I smeared a bit of the salve on my forearm. "Why do you use medicine on a healthy arm?" "Well, Sis, I feel I am going to have a boil tomorrow.
Anyway, this beachcomber carried the woman and her daughter all over the shop, but mostly to out-of-the-way islands, where there were no police, and he thought, perhaps, the soft job hung out. I’ve my own view of this old party; but I was just as glad he had kept Uma clear of Apia and Papeete and these flash towns.
And the handsome god of gods was accompanied by Uma in the guise of a Kirata woman, and also by a swarm of merry spirits of various forms and attire, and by thousands of women in the form and attire of Kiratas. And, O king, that region suddenly blazed up in beauty, in consequence of the arrival of the god of gods in such company. And soon enough a solemn stillness pervaded the place.
There then fell upon my head showers of celestial flowers possessed of great fragrance, and delicious winds blew on the spot. The puissant Sankara then, devoted to the good of the universe, looked at the goddess Uma and the lord of the celestials and myself also, and thus spoke unto me, 'We know, O Krishna, that thou, O slayer of foes, art filled with the greatest devotion towards us.
At this Uma fell in a terrible taking; if I went in the high bush I should never return; none could go there but by the protection of Tiapolo. "I'll chance it on God's," said I. "I'm a good sort of fellow, Uma, as fellows go, and I guess God'll con me through." She was silent for a while. "I think," said she, mighty solemn and then, presently "Victoreea, he big chief?" "You bet!" said I.
As for Uma, the life seemed to have been knocked right out of her by the bang and blaze of it. There was one bad point in my game. One of the blessed graven images had come down all afire, hair and clothes and body, not four yards away from me.
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