"That man should have been an Italian bravo," murmured the knight, sinking into a chair: "he has neither fear nor compunction. "Gadzooks! I thought something was coming on; for when I looked at the weather-glass an hour ago, it had sunk lower than I ever remember it. 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. “I didn’t think you’d come. And he hazarded a wink at the poet over the paper on which he was sketching. Restraining with an effort his intense curiosity, he talked of general subjects only, trying his best to entertain her. He turned. The sound of their strident voices floated upwards, the high nasal note of the predominant Americans, the shrill laughter of girls quick to appreciate the wit of such of their male companions as thought it worth while to be amusing. Decidedly this was imbecile. ” “Not worth the trouble.
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