He had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven and eight-and-twenty. “Think of the mockery!” she said. He shook his head all the time. She charged boldly into the space of Miss Miniver’s rhetorical pause. At least I can’t talk to them. Her people live in Heng-Chow, in the Hu-nan province. And they never talked of anything at all, never discussed, never even encouraged gossip. "There's nothing in his clothes. 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. " "We may believe as much of that as we please, I suppose," observed the carpenter's wife, with a sneer. ” She paused. Kneebone, Mrs.
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