’ She turned quickly away that her feelings might not be obvious to Lucy and her great-aunt. Earles strode into the waiting-room. There’s sure to be a place somewhere. She stared at him. ” “Have I done something wrong? Should I take you home?” “No. If not, keep up your spirits. ’ For the space of half a minute, Gerald continued to scowl in silent frustration. 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. At Anna’s words she seemed suddenly to stiffen. . She must not show anything.
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