“Why on earth did you TELL me?” he cried. His legs were fine and
strong, he told her that he had been a warrior in ancient
times, to which she snorted in disgust. 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. “When one wants a thing more than anything else in the world,” she said with
outrageous frankness, “one naturally wishes one had it. "
"All right, teacher; I'll shave and comb my hair.
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