ABSTRACT
Two very elegant young persons at Papeete were Rarahu and her friend Téourahi, setting the fashion to other young women in the matter of new colours in dresses, or certain flowers or certain shapes in wreaths. They generally went barefoot, poor little things, and their luxury, which consisted chiefly in crowns of fresh roses, was of a very humble kind. But the grace and youth of their faces, the perfect and classic mould of their figures gave them an air of ample adornment even with these simple aids, and made them quite bewitching.
