" She sent a covert glance toward the young man. Was not Gerald altogether on her side? He was, even though he played games like an imbecile, a person tout à fait sympathique as she had discovered at the outset. 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. She could still feel his psychic presence all around her, and she knew he was thinking of her. ‘Ah, there is the little menace itself,’ he drawled, recovering some of his own sangfroid. He might solve the riddle. "Come with me, my love, come—come," cried his mother, seizing his hand, and endeavouring to force him away. Anna suddenly leaned forward and looked around her. . This helped to restore Ann Veronica’s self-command. ” She looked down at the flowers, still in shock, and gently laid them over her arm like a Miss America candidate practicing a crowning ceremony at a pajama party.
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