Oh, I grew fond of you as the years went by. He felt the first sting of the whip. 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
exactly as Sebastian had foreseen. "
"Or the flat stones in the meadows, teeming with life underneath. The sunshine broke across each shoulder, one lance
striking the yellow face of a Chinaman, queueless and dressed in European
clothes, the other lance falling squarely upon the face of the man he had
journeyed thirteen thousand miles to find. Besides those who conducted themselves more peaceably, the conductors of the
procession noticed with considerable uneasiness, large bands of men armed with
staves, bludgeons, and other weapons, who were flying across the field in the
same direction. “You’re an idiot and your attitude is repugnant.
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