But at last this ordeal was over, and Ramage opened the door. ’
Amusement flickered in Gerald’s breast. ‘He’d have been that happy if he’d known how you’re the spit of her, miss. It was, Ann Veronica felt, as a sip or so of that remarkable
blend warmed her blood, just the sort of thing that her aunt would not approve,
to be lunching thus, tete-a-tete with a man; and yet at the same time it was a
perfectly innocent as well as agreeable proceeding. Darrell attempted to reply. "Fire! That was what drew me to you in
the beginning. 5. "
"You have no son," rejoined Sir Rowland, moodily. Then fury claimed her and she could no longer pretend. "
"What has he done?"
"What did he have to drink over here last night?"
"Not even water. . "
"Very interesting," said the Chinaman, with a wave of his tapering hand toward
the roofs. 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. There's something human about you now.
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