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But she had found it
very difficult. They were all stout ill-favoured men, attired in the regular jail-livery of scratch
wig and snuff-coloured suit; and had all a strong family likeness to each other. Sheppard's dress—extremely
neat and clean, but simply fashioned, and of the plainest and most unpretending
material,—offered nothing assailable; and her demeanour was so humble, and
her looks so modest, that—if she had been ill-looking—she might, possibly,
have escaped the shafts of malice preparing to be levelled against her. "In with him!"
"Ay—ay, yer hon'r," cried the foremost chairman, lending a helping hand. Sebastianus gave Marina tonics and barred Lucia from
touching her mother, who yelled in her Gypsy tongue at
Lucia to stay away, save the baby. 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 was a much lighter and more frivolous person, very
charming and companionable—but with a difference—a great difference. “It jars. It is no problem. ‘Let me see if our minds are attuned. Anna was still holding her cigarette between her fingers. ‘You
are extremely empty-headed, Lucy. That might happen on
her birthday—in August. They don’t catch on to discursive interests, you see,
because they are more serious, they are concentrated on the central reality of life,
and a little impatient of its—its outer aspects.
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