Capitolo 49
you tune up, as soon as the gifts of potato and bread-fruit made to duly be everybody
lodged and it put in the barn. "Any damage come to you. You Korong, you know. You a lot
great Taboo. You-Kila-Kila it sends King of Fire and King of Water to do
Interdict him on, so nobody hurt her."
Muriel bursts in torn wounds to the sound of his own language from those dark
lips, and it exclaimed through his/her hiccups, while seizing himself/herself/itself to the hand of the girl for
does he/she comfort as did she speak, "Because, as did it ever come to speak English?--says
me."
Evil it looked above at her with a mean-surprised air. "Oh, me the servant in
Queensland, clearly the missy", she responded, with the great calm. "Job
vase come to my island, far street, four, steal boy five years ago,
you steal woman. My dad as soon as it kills my mother, because him angry with her, so no
wants daughters. Then my dad sells my sister and I for a lot of rum, abundance
tobacco, to gentlemen in vase of job. Gentlemen in vase of job take
Jani and me street, street, to Queensland. Great sea; long trip. We stop there
there three potato--three years--shelters; then the great head in Queensland
I/you/he/she send again us to my island. My island too far; gentleman on ship not
discover him/it; then he disembarks us in the small boat on Boupari. The people of Boupari do
enslaved of temple of us." And that was everything; to her a true common place,
every day the history.
"I see", Muriel cried. "Then you have been being for three years in Australia!
And there you learned English. Because, did thing do there?"
Evil it seemed again in reality to her with the same air of calm as
before. "Oh, me for first" I nurse, she said, shortly. "Then later, me
houseservant, long live three year in gentleman's house, the good gentleman that the purchase
me. Watches out of small girl; clean rooms; face everything. I know how to
makes lady rather comfortable English. I tell that head; that him ago
says, 'the Evil, you are the shade of Queenie.'"
To Muriel in his/her loneliness such company as that was also indeed a