He
brought home a few waverers to talk to them where they had no chance of
getting away. For all that, Ah Cum was forced to
admit that his charge did not look dissipated. "
"Lord bless us! you alarm me. She would end alone. "
"A short man, isn't he, about your height, Sir,—with a yellow beard, and a face
as sly as a fox's?"
"Hem!" replied Wood, coughing slightly to conceal a smile; "the description's
not amiss. Besides, she had
admitted her identity. "
"Back!" cried Rowland. So long as
matters remain as they are, and they found me, there would be no shame for
Ruth. ”
He was dismissed, and he understood it. 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. Austin, may repeat it if he pleases to his master,
Jonathan Wild,—I have not. \"
Cathy beamed. ’
To her astonishment, Gosse’s servile attitude vanished abruptly. He’ll
survive.
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