“An Oracle is a vampire, of course. As Jack conjectured, no one was there, and, though a lamp was burning on a stand, they decided upon proceeding without it. Sheppard was unwillingly compelled to listen. You know the sort of thing. ‘And you come to me, thinking yourself half French, and expect me to take you in. 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. ’ ‘Uh-oh,’ came from her infuriating suitor and his eyes dropped to the weapon she was dragging from the holster under her petticoat.
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