He was made welcome as McClintock's agent; but he politely declined all the proffered courtesies. He dodged the boot this time, and smashed his left upon the Wastrel's lips, leaving them bloody pulp. 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. ‘But with more courage in her little finger than in many another female’s entire body. “In it lies the secret poison he used to turn you into an Oracle. He entered the room with his usual deliberation, and looked covertly about him. Why? He could preach the Word and deny Love!—tame the savage heart, succour broken white men!—pray with his face strained with religious fervour! The idea made her dizzy because it was so inexplicable. Clotilde announced that she would not be back and she was taking Fritz and Anna forever. Annabel was in hiding all the time.
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