ON THE MAKALOA MAT-ISLAND TALES 马克洛岛上的故事
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ON THE MAKALOA MAT/ISLAND TALES
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ON THE MAKALOA
MAT/ISLAND TALES
by Jack London
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ON THE MAKALOA MAT/ISLAND TALES
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ON THE MAKALOA MAT
Unlike the women of most warm races, those of Hawaii age well and
nobly. With no pretence of make-up or cunning concealment of time's
inroads, the woman who sat under the hau tree might have been permitted
as much as fifty years by a judge competent anywhere over the world save
in Hawaii. Yet her children and her grandchildren, and Roscoe
Scandwell who had been her husband for forty years, knew that she was
sixty-four and would be sixty-five come the next twenty-second day of
June. But she did not look it, despite the fact that she thrust reading
glasses on her nose as she read her magazine and took them off when her
gaze desired to wander in the direction of the half-dozen children playing
on the lawn.
It was a noble situation--noble as the ancient hau tree, the size of a
house, where she sat as if in a house, so spaciously and comfortably
house-like was its shade furnished; noble as the lawn that stretched away
landward its plush of green at an appraisement of two......
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