She was for ever scanning luggage and finding her way about the world, via these miniature pictures. Ruth could tell the doctor; she could bare many of her innermost thoughts to that kindly man; but there was an inexplicable reserve before this young man whom she still endued with the melancholy charm of Sydney Carton. If by any chance I have made a mistake a word will bring me to you. Once she had asked him: "Are you my father?" He had answered: "I am. 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. "A bit up in the world again; eh?" "Why did you bother with me?" "Because no human being has the right to die. I must go perhaps in all the rooms. Ruth drank in these intellectual controversies, storing away facts. The low ceiling made him seem abnormally tall. He had finally put aside The Lilac Sunbonnet, gone into his study, lit the gas fire, and written the letter that had brought these unsatisfactory relations to a head. His stories had enchanted her, even if in some deep corner of her heart she guessed they were not entirely true.
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