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place," answered Iromea, who ran from English to 

 French to Tahitian, but of course not with the ease of 

 Lovaina, for that great heart knew many of the cities 

 of her father's land, was educated in needlework style, 

 and with a little dab of Yankee culture, now fast dis- 

 appearing as she grew older. One marked that ten- 

 dency to reversion to the native type and ways among 

 many islanders who had been superficially coated with 

 civilization, but whom environment and heredity claim 

 inexorably. 



Iromea was thirty years old. She had been loved by 

 many white men, men of distinction here; sea-rovers, 

 merchants, and lotus-eaters, writers, painters, and 

 wastrels. 



Juillet, whose native name was Tiurai, helped old 

 Madame Rose to care for the rooms at the Tiare. She 

 was thirteen years old, willowy, with a beautiful, smil- 

 ing face, and two long, black plaits. Though innocent, 

 almost artless, in appearance, she was an arch coquette, 

 and flirted with old and young. One day a turkey that 

 shared the back yard with two automobiles, a horse, three 

 carriages, several dogs, ten cats, and forty chickens, dis- 

 appeared. Juillet was sent to find the turkey. She 

 was gone four days, and came back with a brilliant new 

 gown. She brought with her the turkey, which she 

 said she had been trjdng to drive back all the four days. 



Juillet was named for the month of July. Her 

 mother was the cook of a governor when she was born 

 on the fourteenth of July, the anniversary of the fall of 

 the Bastile, and the governor named her for the month. 

 She was also named Nohorae, and noho means to be 

 naked and rae forehead. Juillet had a high forehead. 



