It was still too dark for reading, but she could see well enough to note the number of the last page—fifty-six. She had decided that she would spend the next morning answering advertisements in the papers that abounded in the writing-room; and so, after half an hour’s perusal of back numbers of the Sketch in the drawingroom, she had gone to bed. Next instant, Gerald felt his wrist seized in an iron grip. 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. His first inquiries were concerning the child, and he was delighted to find that it still lived and was doing well. The stranger started at the touch, and spoke. "I've set a trap for him. He knew she had been weeping. His was the Latin turn of thinking; he had fallen in love at thirteen, and he was still capable—he prided himself—of falling in love. Their conversation degenerated again and again into a strain of self-congratulation that would have irked an eavesdropper. “Have some more port wine, sir?” “It’s a very sound wine,” said Mr. Lucy was filled with happiness, it was her third Christmas at the Becks.
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