“Perhaps by this time you will have heard of the step I have taken in leaving my home. But if you wish to do old Wood a friendly turn, you may bring his wife. And no ill-chances. She may address me as “Grandfather” if she chooses, since I’m obliged to accept her in that capacity. For a moment her heart seemed to stop beating. She was discussing one of those modern advanced plays with a remarkable, with an extraordinary, confidence. Perhaps what urged her interest in the young man's direction was the dead whiteness of his face, the puffed eyelids and the bloodshot whites. Jack then proceeded to liberate the captive from his bondage. Even this man had accepted her for “Alcide” without a moment’s question. Jack then intimated his intention of visiting Winifred's chamber, in which several articles of value were known to be kept; but as, notwithstanding his reckless character, he still retained a feeling of respect for the object of his boyish affections, he would not suffer Blueskin to accompany him, so he commanded him to keep watch over the sleepers—strictly enjoining him, however, to do them no injury. 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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