Something insisted that those two were mysteriously linked—that the woman knew the man was there. Her softly intertwined fingers became rigid. "Leave him to me," he said. ” She fumbled with her keys and opened the front door. He had the air of a man who has said too much. “So long as I am your father, so long as your life is entrusted to my care, I feel bound by every obligation to use my authority to check this odd disposition of yours toward extravagant enterprises. It was hard to associate her with the stories which he and all Paris had heard of “Alcide. 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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