. “Let me get you some water, Annabel. You have all the instinctive dexterity of parasites. She quickened her pace, and so did he, talking at her slightly averted ear. At last the panel swung back into the library. A man might be without relatives, but certainly he would not be without friends, that is to say, without letters. The girl wished that she had come afoot, despite the knowledge that she would have suffered many inconveniences, accidental and intentional jostling, insolence and ribald jest. 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. Oh, I know. They leave them out of novels—these incompatibilities.
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