He had been thrilled at her attitude about the subject, which was simply not to turn others into vampires. Anna’s face was half turned from him, but her expression, and the tone of her monosyllable puzzled him. "I give it to King James—not so you: for the furtherance of a great and holy cause, not for the prosecution of wild and unprofitable schemes. After all a thousand pounds is a trifle to rid you of an upstart, who may chance to deprive you of tens of thousands. It will cost them something to repair their stronghold, and take them more time to build it up again than I have taken to pull it down. What might it have been?’ Mrs Sindlesham shook her head helplessly. ” “I’ll wait, then. Certainly he could not move now other than to announce the fact that he had found his man. 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. Ennison?” Sir John hesitated. He knew that he could translate literally. "To the best of my belief, Thames Darrell has been murdered by you. Were I a painter of subject pictures, I would exhaust all my skill in proportion and perspective and atmosphere upon the august seat of empire, I would present it gray and dignified and immense and respectable beyond any mere verbal description, and then, in vivid black and very small, I would put in those valiantly impertinent vans, squatting at the base of its altitudes and pouring out a swift, straggling rush of ominous little black objects, minute figures of determined women at war with the universe.
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