Island Nights' Entertainments. Роберт Стивенсон

he had his eye on her from the beginning. However, they had scarce settled, when up turned a young man, a native, and wanted to marry her. He was a small chief, and had some fine mats and old songs in his family, and was “very pretty,” Uma said; and, altogether, it was an extraordinary match for a penniless girl and an out-islander.

      At the first word of this I got downright sick with jealousy.

      “And you mean to say you would have married him?” I cried.

      “Ioe, yes,” said she. “I like too much!”