Sometimes he was obviously irritable and uncomfortable and unfortunate in his efforts to seem at ease. " The doctor was in the middle fifties, gray and careworn, but with alert blue eyes and a gentle mouth. “Sooner or later, John, it will come to that. ‘All this gadding about. " "Heaven support me!" cried Mrs. I have come to take you home; and hereafter my word will be the law. As she danced there was in her ears the faded echo of wooden tom-toms. I don’t know that I understand altogether. When other kids got sick at school, they always had Moms who would rescue them within minutes. It was so arranged that Ruth went on duty after breakfast and remained until noon. 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. ” TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Typesetting and editing of the original book from which this e-text has been transcribed was inconsistent.
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