He had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven and eight-and-twenty. And what took you to Remenham House?’ ‘I shall come to that presently,’ said Gerald cautiously. 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. And among human beings, too, women to begin with were the rulers and leaders; they owned all the property, they invented all the arts. And all this time perhaps you have been waiting, expecting to hear from me. Marvel, then, took two iron weights, each of a hundred pounds, and placed them in the press. “If only I could afford another!” she thought regretfully. In this part of the world it is wise never to be separated from your luggage. "I understand," she said. He filled the rôle of comrade which Spurlock dared not enact, at least not utterly as he would have liked. ‘Read that,’ and threw the telegram at me, so that it went into the tureen.
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