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So she brought upon the stage the Reverend Henry Dolby, a preacher of means, worldly-wise and kindly, cheery and rotund, who, with his wife and daughter, had arrived at the Victoria that morning. Every old country church is beautiful, but Willesden is the most beautiful country church we know; and in Mrs. ” Lucy snickered. Shoplatch. "You have lived over here?"—astonished. Sheppard. " "Lord, that's just the lesson I've been expounding! It isn't a question of fear; it's one of propriety. 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. '" "What is that?" she asked. There are way-stations—even terminals. The beautiful city that she had been awed by and even grown to love had been abandoned. The uncanny directness of those gray eyes, the absence of diffidence, the beauty of the face in profile (full, it seemed a little too broad to make for perfect beauty), the mellow voice that came full and free, without hesitance, all combined to mark her as the most unusual young woman he had ever met.
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