” Ann Veronica felt a slight embarrassment. CHAPTER XXIV. Somehow I haven’t connected the idea with you. 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. Oh, the scent of the flowers that day, the delicious quiet, the swallows that dived before us in the river. He was daring enough to have seized and carried him off before the whole congregation, but he preferred waiting. Jack's former attempt to pass up the chimney, it may be remembered, was obstructed by an iron bar. But I've not promised to stand by him yet; nor will I, unless he turns out an honest lad,—mind that. You see, we travelled second class, and we are in the least known quarter of Paris. As Spurlock called her name, she paused and turned. And if the woman is not a rival, she must be—yes, that must be it.
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