"Begone! or I fire!" he cried. 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. A certain irritation crept into his manner as he did
so. “I can’t imagine, Miss Pellissier,” Brendon said, leaning towards her, “whatever
made you think of coming to stay if only for a week at a Montague Street
boarding-house. "
Ruth's eyes began to glow. You
can’t do that sort of thing unless you do it over religion, and there’s no religion
in me—of that sort—worth a rap. She visited the corner that had been her own
little garden—her forget-me-nots and candytuft had long since been elbowed
into insignificance by weeds; she visited the raspberry-canes that had sheltered
that first love affair with the little boy in velvet, and the greenhouse where she
had been wont to read her secret letters. Well, it's scarcely credible. It
might be three yards in width, and a few more in length; but it was covered with
ooze and slime, and the waves continually broke over it. ”
“Very well,” the man answered. So long as they're about, I'll always be rewriting them
and wasting my time.
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