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noblemen ought to be indulged in their frolics. But it was now too late to turn
back, and, nerving himself for the shock he expected to encounter, he ventured
after his conductor. The villain has enjoyed his security too long. Sleep did not come easily, but eventually her mind
stopped its chattering and she fell into a deep slumber. ”
The change in Lady Ferringhall’s manner was subtle but unmistakable. If he hasn't a job for you, he'll know someone who has. 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. She went on her way now no longer dreaming and appreciative, but disturbed
and unwillingly observant behind her mask of serene contentment. One comes at last to the step from dreams to
reality. Nigel, do you know that I have been very jealous?”
He avoided the invitation of her eyes. "I'm glad to hear it, that's all," he added, taking out his snuff-box, his
never-failing resource in such emergencies.
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