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. However, that’s over and done with. “After all, how easy the descent is, even for the
greatest of us. ’
‘Bon,’ exclaimed Melusine, triumph soaring. To-night she had a
curious feeling that she stood upon the threshold of some change. It is queer how ideas pop into one's head. "They'll escape. "
CHAPTER IX.
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