She had, by the magic of recollection, set the picture of the typhoon between herself and her table companions: the terrible rollers thundering on the white shore, the deafening bellow of the wind, the bending and snapping palms, the thatches of the native huts scattering inland, the blur of sand dust, and those two outcasts defying the elements. ” He said to her. Ramage pursed his rather loose lips and shrugged his shoulders, with his eyes fixed steadily upon her. The man lingered. Good night. I find it impossible to associate you with—my little friend of the ‘Ambassador’s. I trust you will not accuse me of discourtesy if I express my pleasure that henceforth our ways will lie apart. A vast indifference settled down upon him. If he keeps his word, I'll keep mine. “My chief,” he said, “took it into his head to have an impromptu dinner party. 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. He himself, middle-aged, steeped in traditions of the City and moneymaking, very ill-skilled in all the lighter graces of life, as he himself well knew, could yet come to her invested with something of the halo of romance by the almost magical powers of an unlimited banking account. “You shall go,” he declared. I have suffered him to be brought up decently—honestly; because I would make his fall the greater, and deepen the wound I meant to inflict upon his mother.
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