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. ”
He held out his hand obediently. "Oh! Jack! Jack!—you
little know what a price I've paid for you!"
"Well, I'm glad those women are gone," remarked Shotbolt. “I hope you’re satisfied. That was one of the
mysterious qualities of this child of the lagoon: she had always at instant service
that Oriental mask of impenetrable calm that no Occidental trick could dislodge. “There’s another instinct, too,” he went on, “in a state of suppression, unless
I’m very much mistaken; a child-expelling instinct. All who lived
there aspired to be something greater, all who lived there
had hope, even the slaves! Oh, Lucia, if you could have
seen the Parthenon, or attended the plays at the
Athaneum, you would know why I loved it there. ’ With an air of real interest, he asked, ‘I suppose you did not dig a tunnel or
fly in by balloon?’
The lady gazed at him blankly.
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