‘I fear you mistake, Emile. Ann Veronica sat firelit by her tea-tray with, quite unconsciously, the air of an expert hostess. " "Perhaps so," rejoined the stranger; "but I have others in reserve, not so generally known. . " And before she could be prevented, she lifted up the cloth, and disclosed Shotbolt. She, perhaps, displayed herself rather consciously as a fine person unduly limited. "Your tone suggests something marvellous in the fact," replied Ah Cum, ironically. To preach a fine sermon every Sunday so that he would lose neither the art nor the impulse; and this child, in secret rebellion, taking it down in long hand during odd hours in the week! Preaching grandiloquently before a few score natives who understood little beyond the gestures, for the single purpose of warding off disintegration! It reminded the doctor of a stubborn retreat; from barricade to barricade, grimly fighting to keep the enemy at bay, that insidious enemy of the white man in the South Seas—inertia. “I don’t see what else I could have said,” he remarked. “May I be allowed to say,” he declared, “that I came here with the same intention.
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