" "I won't reproach you, Jack," said the other, sternly. Never again to be alone! To fit herself into this man's life as a hand into a glove; to use all her skill to force him into the position of depending upon her utterly; to be the spark to the divine fire! He should have his book, even if it had to be written with her heart's blood. ’ ‘Yes, but they did do so. There was a little pause between them, full for Ann Veronica of rapid elusive suspicions and intimations. It seemed to him that speech would be an anticlimax. She refused to sleep in the same room with him one night, kicking him in the shins. He looked at it eagerly, but made no movement to take it. . After all, she found herself reflecting, behind her aunt’s complacent visage there was a past as lurid as any one’s—not, of course, her aunt’s own personal past, which was apparently just that curate and almost incredibly jejune, but an ancestral past with all sorts of scandalous things in it: fire and slaughterings, exogamy, marriage by capture, corroborees, cannibalism! Ancestresses with perhaps dim anticipatory likenesses to her aunt, their hair less neatly done, no doubt, their manners and gestures as yet undisciplined, but still ancestresses in the direct line, must have danced through a brief and stirring life in the woady buff. And if you’ve any notion—’ ‘Yes, it is upstairs,’ Melusine agreed, crossing to the library door. She would compose extremely lucid and honorable explanations. Her face scarcely reflected his enthusiasm. “It isn’t a joke,” she said. He was and always would be dramatizing his emotions; perpetually he would be confounding his actual with his imaginary self.
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