His cigar burnt out between his fingers, and he threw it impatiently away. ” Chapter II THE ADVENTURE OF ANNABEL The man spoke mercilessly, incisively, as a surgeon. “Thank you, ma’am. Well, I am Nigel Ennison’s sister!” “Oh!” Anna said. “You think that this is all. The fibre of his soul had to be tested, queerly, to make him worthy of you. The prison was two stories high, with a flat roof surmounted by a gilt vane fashioned like a key; and, possessing considerable internal accommodation, it had, in its day, lodged some thousands of disorderly personages. 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. " "The boy's not at my house," replied Wild. “I do not know what you mean,” he said, “but if you are referring to any little coolness since our marriage let us never speak of it again. Nevertheless there came a residuum of expostulations.
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