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Said the nurse, "Call out to Waka."
LAIEIKAWAI: "O Waka! O Waka--O!"
WAKA: "Heigh-yo! Why waken in the middle of the night?"
LAIEIKAWAI: "Here is a fragrance, a strange fragrance, a cool fragrance,
a chilling fragrance; it goes to my heart."
WAKA: "That is no strange fragrance; it is Mailelaulii, one of the
sweet-smelling sisters of Aiwohikupua, who has come to get you for his
wife; he is the husband, the husband for you to marry."
LAIEIKAWAI: "Bah! I will not marry him!"
"One refusal is enough," said Aiwohikupua, "without getting four more!
You have brought this shame upon us both, my comrade."
"Let us endure the shame," said his counsellor, "and if our sisters do
not succeed, then I will go and enter the house and tell her to take you
for her husband as you desire."
Then the chief's heart rejoiced, for Kauakahialii had told him how this
same man had got Laieikawai to come down to Keaau, so Aiwohikupua
readily assented to his servant's plea.
Then Aiwohikupua quickly ordered Mailepakaha to go and stand at the door
of the chief-house; she gave forth her perfume, and Laieikawai was
startled from sleep, and again smelled the fragrance.
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