Anna, who had thrown aside her sealskin coat, wore a tight-fitting walking dress of some dark shade. It may only be used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. ‘You said she was beautiful. I love you all the more for the streak of sheer devil in you. “We have to be— modern. ” Sir John, frankly oblivious of the possibility of passers-by, took her into his arms and kissed her. 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. He wished he had the time to solve this riddle, for it was a riddle, and four-square besides. Blood, they say, won't come out. Here was the same Ruth who had left him a few minutes since: the same outwardly; and yet…! On the ninth day Spurlock was up and about; that is, he was strong enough to walk alone, from the companion to his chair, to lean upon the rail when the chair grew irksome, to join Ruth and his employer at lunch and dinner: strong enough to argue about books, music, paintings. Why? He could preach the Word and deny Love!—tame the savage heart, succour broken white men!—pray with his face strained with religious fervour! The idea made her dizzy because it was so inexplicable. "And now," cried Jack, leaping up, "for an achievement, compared with which all I have yet done shall be as nothing!" CHAPTER XVII. ‘Her purpose, if you will believe me, is to get herself a dowry so that she may marry an Englishman.
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