Just as the clergyman approached the altar, she perceived a boy steal quickly into
the church, and ensconce himself behind the woollen-draper, who, in order to
carry on his amatory pursuits with greater convenience, and at the same time
display his figure (of which he was not a little vain) to the utmost advantage,
preferred a standing to a sitting posture. A young man, who had been spending the last hour walking
up and down on the opposite side of the way, came quickly over to her. He urged his
conductors to a quicker pace to get out of sight of the distressing spectacle, and
even felt relieved when he was shut out from it and the execrations of the mob
by the walls of the little prison. You have the look
in your eyes to-night which you had that day, the look of a frightened child. 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 have been through dozens of foster parents, John. ”
“I could have said more. Her neck was
smeared with red and remorse flooded him. ”
The men at the reporter’s table lifted their eyebrows, smiled faintly, and
leaned back to watch how she took her scolding. Ann Veronica stared for a moment in
amazement at this dark-green object that clashed as it was put down.
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