‘You wouldn’t know one end of a pistol from the other. Not a word had been exchanged between the two boys on the road. Framed in one of the square ports of the packet was a face which reminded Ah Cum of a Japanese theatrical mask. And probably the girl would wear herself out, too. White and Miss Ellicot laid each a hand upon his arm, one on either side. She gurgled. I’ll have to think of something else. 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.
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