He would talk to Spurlock, but from the bench; as a judge, not as a chagrined
lover. Though the starling
was more than two feet above the level of the water, he alighted with his little
charge—which he had never for an instant quitted—in safety upon it. His car, a
black Alfa Romeo, waited at the end of the subdivision. I have arrested him in the King's name. He was not particularly grateful for the
present situation. If only you could
see the people who have been to call on me! Sir John has the most absurd ideas,
too. 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. . ”
Annabel sank suddenly into a chair.
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