Then I came to London and tried almost everything—all failures. Now do you see?’ Melusine frowned. ‘Wait a minute, though. She was posing before the mirror, critically, miserably, defensively, and perhaps bewilderedly. He had barely settled at his desk in his library, when he was disturbed by two morning callers. “Your coffee’s too good to refuse. She turned the gas up in her little sitting-room, and sank wearily into an easy chair. When they were going home she asked her mother why she and Gwen and Alice had cried. Spurlock stepped into the room. He suddenly became eloquent and plausible. 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.
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