” “You have it,” he declared confidently. Kneebone, a woollen-draper in Wych Street, with whose pockets, it appears, Jack, when a lad, made a little too free. You must be misinformed, Mr. Kneebone and his friends would be glad of a little refreshment. Heaven knows why! They don’t marry most of us off now until high up in the twenties. ” “You must admit,” he declared, “that to us—who had seen you—the thought of your trying anything else was amazing. “Has she ever thought of buying a pair of foam earplugs?” Lucy asked. ’ ‘That is what you think? Eh bien. “For no other reason than you talk too much. But I must summon my janizaries. “Dear old Daddy,” she said, “he’ll make a fearful fuss. This man was her husband in the eyes of both God and man. ‘Beg pardon, miss, but I’m told as how—’ She broke off, her eyes widening, her jaw dropping open. ” “Well, he was presumptuous,” Annabel remarked, “and he wasn’t nice about it. 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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