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. Then her fingers moved. In the afternoon she had considered certain doubts very carefully, and decided
on a more emphatic course of action. ‘Her purpose, if you will
believe me, is to get herself a dowry so that she may marry an Englishman. Blueskin, who has been on the watch all night, has dogged Sir
Rowland Trenchard to Jonathan Wild's house; and, from the mysterious manner
in which he was admitted by the thief-taker's confidential servant, Abraham
Mendez, and not by the regular porter, there is little doubt but they are alone, and
probably making some arrangements prior to our uncle's departure from
England. This—all this swamps them.
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