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Fil added: "Then there's the bonito, as big as a pig, though its name jokingly means 'good little one'; the sail fish which lifts its fin into the wind; and the garoupa." "Wonderful names," I admitted. "And all wonderfully good to eat," added Moro, who was often thinking of dinners and feasts.
"How did you think of them?" "I like King Alfred's legs!" "Ingred, you look about a hundred!" "Fil could scold!" "Verity, what was a courtier doing rambling about a forest in a blue dressing-gown? It would get torn on the bushes!" "I know. We told her so, but she would wear it!" declared Ingred. "She was just pig-headed over that dressing-gown!"
"I also notice a curved deck or covering, laid over the boats," I said. "Yes, that is a roof, or thatch, made out of nipa palm leaves tied on to bamboo sticks," Fil explained. "Please look!" said sweet little Filippa. "Out there on the purple ocean is a more wonderful boat still." I looked. Oddest of sights! A boat shaped like a long leaf was scudding before the wind.
It was fun to act variety artistes before the rest of the hostel, and well worth being in time for meals, preserving silence during prep., or getting up a little earlier so as to leave cubicles in apple-pie order. The Foursome League had not yet earned distinction, chiefly owing to lapses on the part of Fil, and Nora's incorrigible love of talking in season and out of season.
When the coconut meat is pressed, the oil extracted is used for fuel, light, hair pomades, butter, candles, and grease. It is used also in making the best hand soaps; in fact, it makes the only soap that can be used with salt sea water." "Please let me tell all its other valuable qualities," said Fil. "If you cut a coconut in half, you have two cups, or dishes.
He had done a pretty stroke of work, nom de Dieu, idiot! He paced up and down, trying to think of some stratagem, some explanations, some cunning trick, and from time to time he rinsed his mouth with a swallow of "fil en dix" to give him courage. But no ideas came to him, not one. Towards midnight his watch dog, a kind of cross wolf called "Devorant," began to howl frantically.
Then another hush Filippa, dressed in silver spangle, and Fil, dressed in scarlet and gold, suddenly rushed from opposite sides of the hall to do the love-dance, in which the brave soldier woos and wins his sweetheart. They came near each other. She seemed to be coy; to quarrel sometimes; to beg; to promise. They whirled about; they executed steps; they snapped castanets.
Best went upstairs at once to arrange for her hurried journey, and to help her to pack. Downstairs at the breakfast-table the girls discussed the bad news. They were very sorry for Rachel, and also for themselves, for she was their right inner. "It's like our luck!" fretted Janie Potter. "Too disgusting for words!" groused Doreen Hayward. "Poor old Rachel!" groaned Fil.
Conceive to yoursilf, my frien', she slip on orange peels in ze streets and whacks comes she down. Tree year back yis tree year. Celestine Durand, mon fil." Jennings wondered. "But she says she is Spanish." Le Beau flipped a pinch of snuff in the air. "Ah, bah! She no Spain." "So she is French," murmured Jennings to himself. "Ah, non; by no means," cried the Frenchman unexpectedly. "She no French.
The orchestra sang, whistled, snapped, strummed. The music flowed in waltzes; it jerked in Castilian measures; it whispered. It serenaded, while Fil carried a mandolin with a ribbon. Filippa dropped her handkerchief: Fil gracefully picked it up. He danced in pleading. He showed all the pretty steps he could do.
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