"Why came
she here?"
"She could not resist the hand of fate which drew her hither," replied Sir Cecil,
mournfully. But now confound it! how
can you prevent it? I will kiss you. 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. ‘I do not believe you. I'll knock off at tea. My
agent is here, and he has brought his contract for me to sign. "
"The very reason why I like him, Winny.
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