Finding remonstrances of
no avail, he had recourse to threats; and when threats failed, he adopted more
decided measures. They will find me dead, yes. It shall be the bludgeon. “Is this true, Annabel? Is
he dead?”
She nodded. No matter what they do, always someone to
bolster them up, to lend them money, and to coddle them. ’
‘Oh, she’ll be safe enough, Gerald. The one nearest to her, which must lead to the
library. I loathe this room. 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. She was aware of it
now as if it were a voice shouting outside a house, shouting passionate verities in
a hot sunlight, a voice that cries while people talk insincerely in a darkened room
and pretend not to hear. The Wastrel—as we call him—cannot play when he's
sober; hands too shaky. It was the grand nursery of vice. She got to the driveway and was
semi-surprised to see that his car was gone.
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