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. The windows
were grated, the doors barred; each room had the name as well as the appearance
of a cell; and the very porter who stood at the gate, habited like a jailer, with his
huge bunch of keys at his girdle, his forbidding countenance and surly
demeanour seemed to be borrowed from Newgate. Even though I
knew you’d no one else to care. Then he hovered undecidedly for some seconds
with his hands in his pockets and his mouth puckered to a whistle before he
turned to go home by the Avenue. The darkness prevented the carpenter from discerning the features or figure of
the stranger; and the ceaseless din precluded the possibility of holding any
communication by words with him. She had never experienced anything so disagreeable in her life as the
sense of being held helplessly off her feet. And if you dare to produce any kind of weapon at all,’ he added,
taking a plain brass-barrelled little pistol from his own pocket and levelling it, ‘I
will have no compunction in blowing off your head, you madcap female. ”
“It cannot be!”
“It is in the grimoires. Sheppard.
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