” She hesitated and looked for a moment straight into his eyes. I am not of the canaille, but a bourgeois. ‘On the contrary,’ Gerald argued, frowning. 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. “By-the-bye,” he said, presently, “your sister was married to old Ferringhall the other day, wasn’t she? I saw the notice in the papers. “We will see that he never annoys you. Well, they’d got to the pheasants, and in a little while he would smoke. ’ But the nun’s eyes had caught Gerald behind and she took instant umbrage.
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