74 MYSTIC ISLES 



but that thing is good to me. See those bottle' cham- 

 pagne goin' in?" 



Perhaps I shall carry longer than any other memory 

 of Tahiti that of the endearing natm'e, the honest heart, 

 and the laughing, starry eyes of Lovaina, with a tiare- 

 blossom over her ear, or a chaplet of those flowers upon 

 her head, as she sat on her throne behind the serving- 

 table, and I on the camphor-wood chest. 



