Her eyes glistened in the darkness—for light was only admitted through a small grated window—like flames, and, as she fixed them on him, their glances seemed to penetrate his very soul. Now then. I’ll get in trouble. He was in a curious state of desperation. " All day long the phrase interpolated her thoughts. Ann Veronica felt suddenly an effect of tremendous pathos; she would have given anything to have been able to frame and make some appeal, some utterance that should bridge this bottomless chasm that had opened between her and her father, and she could find nothing whatever to say that was in the least sincere and appealing. Consent to become my wife, and do not compel me to have recourse to violence to effect my purpose, and I will spare your son. Her eyes flashed. ” “But I’m quite equal to taking care of myself, aunt. ’ He nodded. According to what I’ve heard, you oughtn’t to be here. He recalled with exasperating perplexity her clear, matter-of-fact tone as she talked about love-making being unconvincing. 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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