Later, when they returned home, she would serve
as the topic of many conversations. The father, granite; the daughter, fire: Spurlock saw the one and heard the other,
his amazement indescribable. The streets were full of colour. "Can you not love him?"
"Love him!" echoed the widow. It
did seem in so many ways exactly what Ramage said it was—the sensible thing
to do. 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 think we
will soon, though. Stanley took mustard savagely. This isn't your island, child; it's the great world. "
Neither man spoke. And now tell me
what has happened to my poor mother?"
"Ever since your last capture, and Thames's mysterious disappearance, she has
been dreadfully ill," replied Winifred; "so ill, that each day was expected to be
her last. Essentially the talk was a mixture of fragments
of sentences heard, of passages read, or arguments indicated rather than stated,
and all of it was served in a sauce of strange enthusiasm, thin yet intense. She trembled; but she did not know why. And now for the fawney—
the ring I mean. “Now replace the stone, my child.
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