“Allow me,” the doctor said, “to give you a word of advice, Miss Pellissier. 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. You did not marry her because you loved her; you did not marry because she might have had money; you did not marry her out of gratitude; you did not marry her because you had to. And in this fact lay his danger. But be patient, I am your fast friend. “The man alone could supply any, and if he recovers sufficiently to say anything, what he would say would exonerate you. “Come on in, Michelle. "Well, if you won't come, I shall help myself, and that's unsociable," pursued the speaker, evidently, from the noise he made, suiting the action to the word. To think of him as loving her would make all that different. He tore his gaze away, aware of the quickening of his heartbeat. “He wants me to have dinner at his parent’s house tonight,” still looking at a series of spots on the carpeting.
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