"But you mustn't indulge these gloomy thoughts. ‘Has this capitaine of yours not yet rid us of this Emile? What can he find to say to him?’ ‘Don’t be impatient,’ Gerald said, rising too and coming to draw her away from the door. She saw his eyes glaze over. A post-chaise seen in the road first alarmed us. “I’ve got nothing in the world to pack with except a toy size portmanteau. I wonder what men would say if we threw the mask aside—if we really told them what WE thought of them, really showed them what WE were. You'll live to hate chicken; and the man in you will rise up and demand strong drink. 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. Words were given with their original meaning, without their ramifications.
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