The beautiful gowns and the flashing bare shoulders and arms of the women had disturbed and distressed her. We'll have some fun down there at my place, Spurlock; but we'll probably bore your wife to death. But I expect him back every minute. What he wanted desperately was to be alone. Only of course I must begin something else at once. 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. With what airs we human atoms invest ourselves! What ridiculous fancies of our importance! We believe we have destinies, when we have only destinations: that we are something immortal, when each of us is in truth only the repository of a dream. ” “I can’t imagine what makes you fly out against everything like this,” said Miss Stanley to her niece. She was no longer there. She is a stranger to you.
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