"Therefore, princess, we beseech you, best ease your heart of sorrow;
good fortune shall be yours hereafter.
"We have agreed here to share your fortune; our younger sister has
consented to go and get Kaonohiokala for your husband, the boy chief who
dwells in the taboo house at the borders of Tahiti, a brother of ours,
through whom Aiwohikupua gained the rank of chief.
"If you will consent to your brother being fetched, then we shall win
greater honor than was ours before, and you will become a sacred person
of great dignity so that you can not associate with us; now this is what
we have thought of; you consent, then your reproach is lifted, Waka is
put to shame."
Said Laieikawai, "Indeed I would consent to ease my burden of shame,
only one thing I will not consent to--my becoming your brother's wife;
for you say he is a taboo chief, and if we should be united, I should
not see you again, so high a chief is he, and this I should regret
exceedingly, our friendship together."
Said her companions, "Do not think of us; consider your grandmother's
taunts; when her reproach is lifted, then we are happy, for we think
first of you.
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