Ha!"
exclaimed the stranger, as shouts and other vociferations resounded at no great
distance along the thoroughfare, "not a moment is to be lost. 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. Oh, I grew fond of you as the years went by. I'll
see her myself; and that's more than she bargained for, I'll be sworn. She felt she must suffocate if these men did not put her down, and
for a time they would not put her down. It was
warm, shielding, comforting, and what was more, full of understanding. He was an odd one, especially for a young man. "Would you expose yourself to fresh
risk? If it hadn't been for her you wouldn't have been placed in your late
jeopardy. Over an old crazy bedstead was thrown a squalid,
patchwork counterpane; and upon the counterpane lay a black hood and scarf, a
pair of bodice of the cumbrous form in vogue at the beginning of the last
century, and some other articles of female attire. Here you are, young,
sound, with a heart that will recover in no time, provided you keep liquor out of
it. She decided to call in the help of Teddy Widgett,
or, failing him, of one of his sisters. Hitherto in the world’s history there had been precursors of this Progress at
great intervals, voices that had spoken and ceased, but now it was all coming on
together in a rush.
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