" "Let me have a glass of brandy," said he, addressing the host. " "It's a queer girl. Her body went into spasm. The lady had disappeared. He stole his chance and thrust his hand towards hers. But what he could do or might do she could not imagine. 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. ‘I understand you have not been in England very long,’ he said in English, noting that Madame raised her fan and lowered her gaze demurely. ‘Have you any more pretty toys like that knife about you?’ ‘The girl’s a regular arsenal,’ Hilary snapped, giving up into his senior’s hand the nasty little weapon he had snatched. Ireton; for may I be hanged myself if I don't believe he'll be as good as his word. He was walking listlessly along, well-dressed, debonnair, good-looking. It did not cheer or fortify him with false courage and recklessness; it simply enveloped him in a mist of unreality. ‘Now what?’ The girl’s voice was shaking, and there were, he saw now, angry tears in her eyes.
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