” Lucy answered, disturbed at how rehearsed the apology sounded. Too many. Suspicion was in his face. The advanced guard had endeavoured to disperse the mob in Field Lane, but were not prepared to meet with the resistance they encountered. “One has to be so careful of one’s friends and acquaintances,” he remarked, by way of transition. Hitherto, no visiters had been permitted to see him. . Gwen and Alice were fantastically friendly, which seemed to annoy him, and Mrs. Lucy could see her striding down a Parisian catwalk quite easily. Outside the post-office stood a nohatted, blond young man in gray flannels, who was elaborately affixing a stamp to a letter. She made herself serenely unaware of his existence, though it may be it was his presence that sent her by the field detour instead of by the direct path up the Avenue. 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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