"I thought you'd have got rid of your ill-humour by this time. ’ To her astonishment, Gosse’s servile attitude vanished abruptly. With the extra seventy-five pounds she had put after birthing her final son, Steven, her knees weren’t in good shape to be running up and down stairs all day. ‘This is insupportable. “There I can’t help,” said Capes. "The Golden One knows that I have seen the world; therefore follow my instructions. 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'll tell you," replied Jack, with forced calmness.
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