To use it as a
passport to card-tables and gin-bottles! McClintock wasn't having any guests; at
any rate, he had not mentioned the fact. I loathe this room. The eggs were all right, but nobody in this part of the world had the least
conception of what the coffee bean was for. ’ Handing over the guineas, he added, ‘For you. 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. ”
“Yes, I believe that was the name. ‘One would take it
that the house had been ransacked.
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