There was only one idea in his head now—to batter and bruise and crush this weakling, then cast him at the feet of his love-lorn wife. In privacy he read and reread it a dozen times, and eventually destroyed it by fire. ’ Melusine sighed deeply. There was nothing left now of the selfassured, prosperous man of affairs. ’ It was thus in stony silence that the pair traversed the short distance to Stratton Street, where Roding knocked on the major’s door and entered a pleasant woodpanelled hall, with his prisoner firmly in tow. Crack went the whip, and away floundered the heavy vehicle through the deep ruts of the ill-kept road, or rather lane, (for it was little better,) which, then, led across Southampton Fields. Opening a pair of large black eyes, the child fixed them for an instant upon Wood, and then, alarmed by the light, uttered a low and melancholy cry, which, however, was speedily stilled by the caresses of his mother, towards whom he extended his tiny arms, as if imploring protection. The clergyman, meanwhile, proceeded with the service, while the coffin was deposited at the brink of the grave. But escape to where? She thought of the ships that sailed from the peninsulas to hot deserts where spices were traded. ” He said to her with as much casualness as he could muster. A woman was born to have children, particularly male children. 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. In no way could he be said to contribute to the gaiety of the little party. “Would you wait for me?” Manning was silent for a space. “You are so sweet, Lucy.
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