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. It was a mad half-hour. ”
But after that neither ideas nor phrases had come and she had fallen thinking
of the events of the day. “Of course. She had found the mausoleum underneath a broken
monument. The house will be well rid of him, for a more idle, good-for-nothing reprobate
never crossed its threshold. ’
Melusine looked resentfully at the pistol. The van started with a jerk and rumbled on its way. Larry and Cathy always
went to great lengths to make the holiday season very
special, getting a real tree from American Sale every year
even though it was an extravagance. "Let him alone," said Trenchard authoritatively, "I have another question to
propose.
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