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Then, opening the letter: "No, I can not; adieu." And he went out, in a manner so precipitate and troubled that the uncle and niece exchanged smiling glances. Those typical Southerners could not think of any other trouble in connection with so handsome a man as Dorsenne than that of the heart. "Chi ha l'amor nel petto," said Signorina Sabatina. "Ha lo spron nei fianchi," replied the uncle.
"Ja!" blushing and looking somewhat astonished. "And Miss Marit is a very nice housekeeper." "Ja." "And Miss Marit makes splendid coffee, and thoroughly understands how to cook a beefsteak." "Ja!" "And Miss Marit would make a most excellent wife for any young gentleman who could succeed in winning her affections!" "Nei!" said the young lady, blushing again, and looking more astonished than ever.
He fitted German airs to Hawaiian words, composed music on native themes, and spontaneously and by adaptation he, with others, gave a trend to the music of Hawaii nei that, though European in the main, is yet charmingly expressive of the soft, sweet nature of the Hawaiians and of the contrasts of their delightful gaiety and innate melancholy.
Clambering out on the end of the jib-boom, Upaparu seized hold of a stay and hailed them in a semi-Tahitian dialect, the lingua franca of Eastern Polynesia "Ia ora na kotore teie nei aho!"
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