A few words passed between him and the thief-taker as the latter came up; after which, all the party—with the exception of Quilt, who was left on shore —embarked within the wherry, which was pushed from the strand and rowed swiftly along the stream—for the tide was in its favour—by a couple of watermen. “She must go her own way. He resumed his listening. Melusine came back to the present to discover that tears were rolling down her cheeks. Some day she wanted to be loved as Marius loved Cosette; but there was another character which bit far more deeply into her mind. She formed a wild resolution, and, lest she should waver from it, she set about at once to realize it. Their chit-chat stopped when they reached the bench. So it would always be between herself and Manning. ’ ‘Where are we going?’ ‘Back to Blaye, my girl. The man’s passion was infectious. It’s only as if I’d begun to know you the day before yesterday or there-abouts. As he crossed this chamber, his foot struck against something on the floor, which nearly threw him down, and stooping to examine the object, he found it was a key. I’m not that sort I quite agree. 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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