She looked at her flattened belly. Her aunt had summoned up an altogether too vivid picture of her father as the masterful man, overbearing, emphatic, sentimental, noisy, aimless. 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. “Annabel! Why, what on earth have you been doing to yourself, child?” she exclaimed. That might happen on her birthday—in August. Project Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. Anyhow he confessed that he was a fraud. No umbrella either, the sky was delightfully overcast. “Don’t tell anyone I told you this. Miss Stanley had determined from the outset to have the warmest affection for her youngest niece and to be a second mother in her life—a second and a better one; but she had found much to battle with, and there was much in herself that Ann Veronica failed to understand.
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