Her first impulse was to fly to the window; and she was about to pass through it, at the risk of sharing the fate of the unfortunate lady, when her arm was grasped by some one in the act of ascending the ladder from without. Mr. Finding all attempts at conversation with his companion in misfortune in vain, Wood, in order to distract his thoughts, looked up at the gigantic structure standing, like a wall of solid darkness, before him. “You are the Sir John Ferringhall who has bought the Lyndmore estate, are you not?” she remarked. At no loss to comprehend that Jack was the individual pointed out by these outcries, two of the nearest of the group made a dash at him. “Why just take her limbs? Why not poison her, like me?” “Because, if you remember, she turned me into a vampire. 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. “Yes,” she said, “that is what we ought to do. For many of them it will smirch us forever. We have seen pitted cheeks, which we would not exchange for dimples and a satin skin. ‘Good God!’ uttered Roding.
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