Capitolo 66
women in narrow life-belts of the red and long dracaena go away, with collars
of the teeth of sharks, pendents chain of hulls of pearly, a warrior's beret on
their well-shaped heads and a bracelet of native beans, systematized under
the shoulder, around their arm powerful. Together it was a striking,
and the beautiful portrait. Muriel, released almost now from his/her first sense
of fear, it still sustained to look at him.
The men and girls were laughing and you/they were chatting together happily. The most greater part of
they was taken part in the tender ones on forehead to them excellent mats; and a line of
cloth of mulberry, shed long on the earth, conducted to a hut a near side of
the _marae_. I pour this the eyes of the spectators you/they were turned. "What is
it, Bad?" Muriel whispered, his/her woman's instinct that suffered it conducts her/it to
you are waited that anything special same going above to the way of place
festivity.
It is Bad he/she immediately answered, with many signs and smiles, "Every right, Missy
Queenie. Him a marriage, a marriage."
The words had not escaped really the lips when a girl very enough young,
half suffocated in flowers, and it decorated out in beads and elaborate hulls,
slowly emerged from the hut, and its way brought back him with grandiose walk
the run carpeted with native cloth. You were round of circumference the life with
rich-colored mats that formed a long train as a suit of court,
dragging on the five or six ground feet behind her.
"That is his/her bride, I suppose", Muriel whispered, now really
party--for that woman on the earth, she can be wherever, you/he/she can withstand to
the seductive delights of a marriage?
"Yes, her a bride", Bad he/she answered; "and gentleman what follows, them her
damsels of honor."
To the word, you are other girls, it likewise dressed, although without the
you train, and reserved as nuns, emerged from the hut in slow order, two and
two, behind her.
Muriel and Felix stirred in ahead with natural curiosity toward the scene.
The natives, now varied in a line along the run, with mats become inside,