She guessed that he probably slept all of three hours a night at most. ’ Lucilla frowned. His clothes were smartly pressed, his linen white, his jaws cleanly shaven; but the day would come when he would grow indifferent to bodily cleanliness. "What is all this, dear Winny?" inquired Thames, as soon as they were alone. What a girl of sixteen cares for is hair and a high color and moonlight and a tenor voice. You called her a wanton!" "Because I had every reason to believe she was one. \"Sure, I'd love to borrow some clothes for the night. 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 remembered possessing it during the Gold Rush. Her girl, Clarice, was ten and just as pretty as a silver bell. She has never done a really ignoble thing that I know of— never. And Ann Veronica walked beside him, trying in vain to soften her heart to him by the thought of how she had ill-used him, and all the time, as her feet and mind grew weary together, rejoicing more and more that at the cost of this one interminable walk she escaped the prospect of—what was it?—“Ten thousand days, ten thousand nights” in his company.
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