It was a gorgeous May evening, the air redolent with the soapy purple scents of hyacinth and lilac. "I wonder if you will understand what this kindness means to me? I am so terribly wise—and so wofully ignorant!" CHAPTER XII The doctor shifted his books and magazines to the crook of his elbow. There was a certain air of forced fortuity in his manner. I freely forgive you. The doctor would naturally offer a hundred objections; he might seriously interfere; so he must be forestalled. 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. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.
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