A black-garbed figure crept forward, noiselessly, towards Gosse’s back. Mesdames Thierry and Poussaint appeared delighted to meet Gerald, and he was obliged to do the pretty to their daughters too. “I will be off,” she declared. " "Off!" she exclaimed, breaking from his embrace with a scream. He believes that he is leaving this conscience behind; and I want to watch his disillusion on this particular point. ‘Oh, we was always in there, miss,’ admitted Joan, moving closer. . What a pity! For all her ignorance of material things—the human inventions which served the physical comforts of man—how much she knew about man himself! She had seen him bereft of all those spiritual props which permit man to walk on two feet instead of four—broken, without resilience. 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. Smiling, the Chinaman gave the correct pronunciation. ’ ‘Ah, but why remain penniless? After all, your grandfather Charvill—’ ‘Again with the grandfather? Mon ami, if you imagine that this grandfather will welcome a daughter of Nicholas Charvill, whom he has never forgiven that he married a Frenchwoman, then you have an imagination entirely wrong. ‘But for now, I’m taking you home. Was he pleased?” “Calmly! He said—you won’t mind my telling you?” “Not a bit. You'd better lose no time.
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