"I wish merely to come out of this
bargain honourably. ” She said wistfully. “Annabel!” she exclaimed. An
admirable alternative presented itself and she sighed, spreading her hands. And I am coming to believe the best as well as the most beautiful
friends a man can have are girl friends. Some of
your sex, I mean. "
Sir Rowland bit his lips to repress the answer that rose to them. He was a civil servant of some
standing, and after a previous conversation upon aesthetics of a sententious,
nebulous, and sympathetic character, he had sent her a small volume, which he
described as the fruits of his leisure and which was as a matter of fact rather
carefully finished verse. 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. ‘You are rude, and stupide, and
altogether a person with whom I do not wish to speak. The hard work will be his,
until we yank this young fellow back from the brink. "Open the door, I say, or I'll burst it open.
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