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...ction and I feign recoil, as though intimidated by your loudness. Withdrawing to my second line of defence, I surrender to your simulated wrath. Th... ...ong behind him. It is not true! You are so young!" I drove my shrimps amongst the Thousand Islands in my bowl. "You are observant, Sir" – I said – ... ...ul banter of the staff, some heated arguments, the weary vacuuming of carpets, the squeaky linen trolley. The equanimity of the eternal. Bathed in a... ...e is widowed, rich, and lonely. She has a Turkish paramour, a yachtsman. He works the Paris line and ends here once a month." "What does he look li... ...ard sister are part of our family. Your father excommunicated them forever and cursed their lineage. They have disgraced us. Now they are perfect st... ... into the bed's upholstery. The house already reeks and she opens the shutters and lays the linen on the window panes, half out and the dry half in....

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...art II. embraces historic studies and fragmentary notes of Judge Fornander, selected from his miscellaneous papers, as affording an insight into his line of research work, hence, has little of the original Hawaiian and translation feature of the other parts. Part III. is devoted entirely to chants of various kinds. These are almost wholly from the collection of Judge ...

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...igration of the Polynesian Race -- 222 -- Traditional Hawaiian History -- 239 -- Hawaiian Origins: Comparative Traditions Viti—Fiji—New Zealand—Tonga Islands— Marquesas: -- 258 -- Legend of Hawaii-Loa -- 266 -- The Story of Kahahana -- 282 -- A Lamentation for Kahahana -- 292 -- Notes on a Lamentation for Kahahana -- 299 -- On Hawaiian Rank -- 307 -- Chronological List -- ...

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...an old manuscript; his biography written in the sag of his cheeks and the lines around his eyes. Whether it was because of his drooping moustache or... ...the neighbourhood. He guessed that the lightning must have struck a power line or something. He didn’t mind. It meant that the thunderstorm was clea... ...re were even a few who seemed to have forgotten how to walk in a straight line: they zigzagged all over the place, empty beer cans in their hands an... ... and sparking. His skin was smooth but etched with deep wrinkles like the lines of a map. ‘It’s a funny thing about rain,’ he said. ‘Peo- ple have th... ...re of the table was something covered with a cloth. The room’s walls were lined with mirrors which ref ected the candlelight, and Theo had the sudde... ...f the Story and yet you know nothing about it. Look, in the old days, the islands and conti- nents f oated around all over the place. No one knew whe...