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We passengers convinced ourselves that the cargo was considerably reduced before starting out again the next day. This time we arrived safely at Port Vila, where the British and French native police forces came aboard, bound for Santo, to quell a disturbance at Hog Harbour; and so the hapless boat was overloaded again, this time with passengers.
In a variant, the hero, going out shooting, meets with a hare, which, when hard pressed by the dogs, turns into a woman. Both these are West Highland tales; and in the manner of the taboo they closely resemble that given by Map. In an Illyrian story, a Vila is by a youth found one morning sleeping in the grass. He is astonished at her beauty, and plants a shade for her.
"Our brother's neck is broken!" cried they all wildly together, and rushed upon Edmond with drawn weapons, who in this moment had been lost, if Abraham Mazel with a fresh troop had not arrived: Clary, Castanet, Marion, and Vila were among these. Through respect for Mazel they were quiet, and Edmond was enabled to lay the affair before the friends.
It was by an effort of self-control that she did not spring from her seat and leave the room. The effort blanched her face. It was as she sat thus, her eyes cast down, her lips set, her countenance pale, that Mrs. Martindale returned. "My cousin will be here presently," she said, as she entered the room. And then her eye fell on Miss Vila and glanced quickly at Mr.
I spent the days packing the collections awaiting me at Vila, and which I found in fairly good condition; the evenings were passed in the interesting society of Mr. King, who had travelled extensively and was an authority on matters relating to the Orient. He inspired me with admiration for the British system of colonial politics with its truly idealistic tendencies.
Martindale, jerking an eyeful of mysterious intelligence at Miss Vila and whisking out of the room. "I hope you were just about to be beaten, Miss Vila," said Buckingham, "for I see I have spoiled the game." "It is nothing," said she.
"Thanks for the kind inquiry," answered the chatterer; "Ah! dear God! nothing can be done with him, he will remain a boaster his life long." "Wait until he comes a little to years," said Vila, "his petulance will then pass away."
He wanted to come in, I know." "He wanted to!" "Yes; he tried to worm out of me who my cousin was, and he walked up here on purpose to find out where you lived." "How lucky there is no name on the door!" exclaimed the cousin. "But he heard me ask for your husband's house, did he not, Miss Vila? And why on earth you should make such a mystery of it all I can't see." "Do draw the shade, Julia.
The incendiaries have rendered thee for ever unhappy." It was difficult for Edmond to recognise his young friend Vila. "What is the matter with thee? whence comest thou?" asked he at length, amazed. "I am now one of yours!" exclaimed Vila: "I have not been able to govern my heart, since I beheld the affliction of our people.
"Oh, why does n't he go away without my having to tell him?" she cried, unconsciously aloud. "I I thought he surely would, this time." A wide out-jutting wall of rock, uneven and precipitous, completely shut off all view toward the broader valley of the Vila, as well as of the town of San Juan, scarcely three miles distant.
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