” “But why?” “He’s married—and, I believe, living separated from his wife. Lucy tried not to notice the starched smell, overpowering and powdery. There were shadows under his eyes. Yet the smoke was curling upwards in a faint innocent-looking cloud to the ceiling. The stranger looked at him as if strongly disposed to chastise his impertinence. Winifred screamed. 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.
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