The fact itself is regrettable enough—regrettable, I fear, is quite an inadequate word. I had two offers of marriage from men I liked very much indeed, but it never occurred to me to listen to either of them. " Mrs. Supposing you take them and read them? You might be able to tell me why I felt disappointed. " "So it seems," observed the woollen-draper, "and for every one else, too. She glared at him with satisfaction. He hated the taste of it. "I am very wicked," she said. "She wouldn't let me go. Sir Montacute had three children—two daughters and yourself. 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. Not a word passed between them.
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