” “In the present case,” Drummond remarked, glancing across the room, “Cheveney wouldn’t permit it. ’ Gerald cast a swift look up the corridor, but there was no one there, not even a shadow. Laying these carefully aside, he restored the drawer to its place. Wood uttered something like an imprecation. "It can't be Captain Sheppard!" "It is," replied Jack; "and you had better have met the devil on your road than me. Yes, I think we have thoroughly thrashed that one out. We begin rehearsing on Monday at the ‘Garrick’. " "More blood! more blood!" cried Trenchard, passing his hand with agony across his brow. 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. And the woman who showed this room was tall, with an understanding eye and the quiet manner of the well-trained servant. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed, in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount. This structure at once satisfied him as to where he stood.
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