. “Because I hate you!” She spat. Here were the passionate
lovers! What their past had been he neither cared nor craved to know. "But if you do not find this aunt, what will you do?
What can you do to protect yourself against hunger?"
"I'll find something. His pipe
hung dead in his teeth, but the smoke was dense about him. I done just what you
asked. In the adjacent apartment Ann Veronica found a middle-aged woman with a
tired face under the tired hat she wore, sitting at a desk opening letters while a
dusky, untidy girl of eight-or nine-and-twenty hammered industriously at a
typewriter. Understand me. Never before had any human being kissed her lips. "
"He is alive," replied Jack, "I have seen him, and might have conversed with him
if I had chosen. I was grateful. ‘Yes, I thought you’d say that. 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.
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