”
She assented, smiling. 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. In the early hours of the morning, unable to
bear the suspense any longer, Melusine had ventured to explore the mansion, the
lantern she had brought in hand, commenting to herself all the time on the state
of the place and the difficulties of her task, and having no idea of the
consequences she was bringing on herself thereby. Lucy stared like an automaton at Michelle’s unconscious
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body, revolted at her own actions to the point of shock. ’
‘But this is idiot. Annabel was born
soulless, a human butterfly, if ever there was one. “We have come too close together for
me to believe it. Assured, if he remained much longer where he was, he would inevitably perish,
Wood recommended himself to the protection of Heaven, and began his perilous
course. Could she go through with it? She must. "Amazement!" cried Wild. If you know
her for the vicious, scheming wretch that she is, why in God’s name—?’
‘She’s not a vicious, scheming wretch,’ Gerald said calmly. "An oath weighs little with me,
compared with your safety.
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