“Dear friend,” she said, “do you not think that you are breaking an unspoken compact? I am very sorry. "No matter," replied Sheppard. I have said that I am but a nun now. He bullied frankly. But Miss Stanley took no notice of these things. His brows drew a little nearer together. 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. " "Ah! you're so very particular," sighed Mrs. Manning, abruptly. Cosette sat under the table, still as a mouse, fondling her pitiful doll. Then Alderman Dunstable, who had hitherto been silent, broke out into speech and went off at a tangent, and gave his personal impressions of quite a number of his fellow-councillors. But such was the violence of his grief,—such the compunction he exhibited, that all but one looked on with an eye of compassion.
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