“Why should one pretend?
“Think of all the beauty in the world that is covered up and overlaid. “For better or worse. “No, no,” she cried. The work of plunder over, that of destruction commenced. So strongly was he impressed with this idea, that grasping the iron bar with both
hands, he dashed it furiously against the door, making the passage echo with the
blows. ”
Anna nodded and turned again to Courtlaw. 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. "Here's one of the thieves, Sir Rowland!" cried the attendant. ‘I have
said that I will tell you nothing of this soi-disant Valade. “And you?”
“Same thing. “I’ve been thinking—all
the afternoon.
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