Both, however, having
safely landed, they cautiously crossed the room, and passed down the first flight
of steps in silence. 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. His
voice now had lost its ironies. ”
He looked at her thoughtfully. “Cool. But perhaps I had better get a room in an hotel to-night
and look round. The raising of
twenty-five pounds was a task altogether beyond her powers. Do take them away from
me after I have had four. Give us that—”
Ann Veronica came in with a certain disregard of Miss Miniver. He took her hand and looked into her eyes and spoke, divided against himself,
in a voice that was forced and insincere. Chuck had did himself in because
Chuck was a flaming homosexual. Some one had once, in his hearing, called him a prig. Even now he was not at all sure that she was not
playing with him. He made it brief.
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