It was the expression of Miss Klegg’s face that put the idea into Ann Veronica’s head of showing Manning at the College one day, an idea which she didn’t for some reason or other carry out for a fortnight. Gerald noted the lady’s eyes brighten as she caught sight of him making his way through the throng towards her. Nevertheless Sydney, clumsily, but earnestly, had something to say about it. \"Great!\" I'll drive you. He was in great pain and it meant that he would be in casts for twelve weeks. Either it was an unfortunate recovery of a trail, or he had followed her from Mayfair. And yet for all that— It got into Ann Veronica’s nights at last and kept her awake, the perplexing contrast between the advanced thought and the advanced thinker. 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. Abruptly she got out of bed, smoothed her sheet and straightened her pillow and lay down, and fell almost instantly asleep. “I wonder if many people HAVE thought things out? “Are we all just seizing hold of phrases and obeying moods? “It wasn’t so with old-fashioned people, they knew right from wrong; they had a clear-cut, religious faith that seemed to explain everything and give a rule for everything.
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