But they found him on the veranda when they returned from McClintock's that evening. Winifred's reception was kind, but more distant, and after the slight ceremonial she resumed her occupation. ‘Take this. "He must be somewhere hereabouts," cried one of the horsemen, dismounting. And Ann Veronica walked beside him, trying in vain to soften her heart to him by the thought of how she had ill-used him, and all the time, as her feet and mind grew weary together, rejoicing more and more that at the cost of this one interminable walk she escaped the prospect of—what was it?—“Ten thousand days, ten thousand nights” in his company. 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. But I said I wouldn't drive a hard bargain with you, and I won't. And in the Avenue she had an encounter with Ramage. On the contrary, he was a universal favourite, and numbered amongst his intimate acquaintances the choicest spirits of the time,—Pope, Swift, Arbuthnot, and "all the better brothers. This child at once alarmed and thrilled them. “Oh no, you’re breaking up with me, aren’t you?” “No Julian. He had been baptized there.
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