She worried for her father in Mantua,
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hoping that he was still alive. ” Jane was taken aback by Lucy’s weird
candor. "Your enemy!" she returned imperfectly comprehending him. 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. ‘Who, the émigrés?’
‘Do I speak of the English, imbecile? Certainly the émigrés. It has been proved. Doctor says depositions to-night. You know Martin, right? He’s that beautiful half-Chinese
boy that skipped a grade and has an I. I’ve seen him, and he doesn’t a bit understand. "
"And I promise that all you tell me and show me will sink in," replied O'Higgins,
frankly interested. A little inn flying a Swiss
flag nestles under a great rock, and there they put aside their knapsacks and
lunched and rested in the mid-day shadow of the gorge and the scent of resin. Kneebone assumed a mysterious air; and bringing his lips close to Mrs.
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