Amid this varied throng,—varied in appearance, but alike in character,—one
object alone, we have said, rivetted Mrs. Instead, he was bowing to her greataunt. ’
‘You say—what?’ gasped Melusine. Since morning he had become fanatical; the atoms of common sense no longer
functioned in the accustomed groove. "The part was crooked," she explained. Morals only begin when that is settled. Do not imagine you can at one moment
avail yourself of our excellent regulations (with which you seem sufficiently
well acquainted), and the next break them with impunity. 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. That poor child, trying to
escape, and not knowing how. For a few minutes, she appeared scarcely sensible of his
presence.
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