She yielded it without protest, as though unconsciously. To her, marriage would be a buckler against the two evils which pursued her. Let us pass, Sir. If ever the denouement came—if ever the Hand reached him—Ruth would then understand why he had rebuffed all her tender advances. 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. With astonishment, Gerald saw a rheumy film rimming his old commander’s eyes. Even that he was an interfering person, if he walked through that door this moment, she would fling herself at him and weep all over his chest. Ramage, and might describe the affair to him, she cried “Oh!” with renewed vexation, and repeated some steps of her dance in a new and more ecstatic measure. It was very pretty and very dainty while it lasted, but we played it with our eyes open, and we perfectly understood the game—both of us.
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