“I am afraid,” she said, “that he must have a skeleton key to these rooms. He could
not permit her to remain in that position. 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. ”
“You are not yourself to-night, Courtlaw,” Ennison said. . Her lover, Darrell, has embarked upon the Thames, where, if
he's not capsized by the squall, (for it's blowing like the devil,) he stands a good
chance of getting his throat cut by his pursuers—ha! ha! I tracked 'em to the
banks of the river, and should have followed to see it out, if the watermen hadn't
refused to take me. ’
‘The Frenchie? I only knows as how Miss says he will ruin everything. I wanted
to have something to give up. "
The patient was asleep. She was
sorry for his liking her too much for his own good, but her need was too
desperate to cavil at turning it to useful account.
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