”
“He imposed on me,” Annabel continued. ‘One
of your countrymen, perhaps?’
The girl clammed up, the moon of her white face staring up at him in the
darkness. 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. But her great-aunt was
nodding, as if this was what she had expected. Wild of the
circumstance. She glanced into her companion’s face, and she saw
there strange things. I—I am a lovesick idiot, and not accountable for my actions.
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