She had heard the trader utter it many times. He’s the sort of johnny who wouldn’t care about having a sister-in-law on the loose. She was sitting on the mean straw mattress that was placed on the iron bedstead in the makeshift cell, while Melusine stood with her back to the door, confronting her old nurse with the truth. “For seven years,” said Ann Veronica, “I have been trying to keep myself from thinking about love. The tourist season would soon be at ebb, and it would be late in September before the tide returned. 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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