’ Quick anger flared, surpassing the fluttering hope. Racing, he reached it perhaps a moment or two later. Chapter XVI THE DISCOMFITURE OF SIR JOHN Sir John looked from one to the other of the two sisters. "Often. ” She looked down on him thoughtfully, and he let his admiration of her free young poise show in his face. “Larry buys the meat, makes the stuffing. “No, I am alone,” she answered. ‘It is nothing. Quite!” He sat in the arm-chair and took tea, and consumed several of the extra cakes which she had sent out for and talked to her and expressed himself, looking very earnestly at her with his deep-set eyes, and carefully avoiding any crumbs on his mustache the while. It is customary even where an agreement is drawn. 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. She had noticed a twenty year pattern emerging, and funny how opportunity seemed to strike just when she was getting truly anxious. " "You needn't trouble yourself," replied Thames.
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