” She lifted steadfast eyes to him. It came to Spurlock suddenly that if something did not react in his favour inside of five minutes, he was done. As he turned the handle, it moved, and the door was taken from his hand and pulled outward by the young footman. He opened the drawer of the writing table. But I will never—never return. ’ ‘A life of ease?’ repeated Melusine. Each time a daughter had been born to him he had concealed his chagrin with great tenderness and effusion from his wife, and had sworn unwontedly and with passionate sincerity in the bathroom. This employment seemed to afford him the highest satisfaction; for a diabolical grin—it cannot be called a smile—played upon his face all the time he was engaged in it. 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. She had never seen so much food in her life as she saw at her own wedding feast.
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