”
She set the letter down, and drew from her pocket another with a foreign post
mark which had come the day before. The whole story of
your relationship is a fabrication. 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. How she had fought her eagerness in the beginning, lest it reveal her ignorance
of the marvels of mankind! The terror and ecstasy of that night in Singapore—
the first city she had ever seen! There was still the impression that something
akin to a miracle had piloted her successfully from one ordeal to another. My late husband, I mean. So he resolved to try another tack. And nowhere could I obtain the slightest information. Unlocking several doors, he came to a dark vault, that
would have rivalled the gloomiest cell in Newgate, into which he thrust Thames,
and fastened the door. ‘Do you tell me that my disreputable son had the
infernal insolence to pass you off as that whoring Frenchwoman’s daughter?’
His answer was in their faces. ”
She made her glasses glint. He refused
his food,—and even when better provisions were offered him, rejected them. "
"That wouldn't answer my purpose," replied Jonathan, savagely.
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