”
This made her even angrier, so she stopped speaking
to him for a week. “If only Sir John were not Sir John I would ask you
to come and have some supper. Cathy Beck was terribly upset and was on the
verge of exploding. 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. “Good luck! Good luck!”
She waved from the window until the bend hid him. Wood's anxiety respecting the fugitive was speedily relieved by hearing
another waterman busy himself in preparation for starting; and, shortly after, the
dip of a second pair of oars sounded upon the river. ”
“I did not come,” she faltered.
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