"
Trenchard, meanwhile, whose gaze was fixed upon the boy, became livid as
death, but he moved not a muscle. 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. ’
‘Well? Well? What did the fellow have to add to this rigmarole?’
‘He confirmed that Nicholas Charvill—presumably Melusine’s father—had
been disinherited for marrying Suzanne Valade. Interrogation takes many
forms, you know, Lucy. He would come swiftly to her aid, she knew it. Nicholas is dead. "
"You paint yourself worse than you are, dear Mrs. Pretty good stuff, some of it. The crowning aspect of the incident, for her mind, was
the discovery that he and her indiscretion with him no longer mattered very
much. He pressed his lips to her with a much greater force
than she had anticipated. ” She said through a closed mouth. Gosse took a step or two towards the centre of the room. 176
“No, it’s very good. “Well——”
She stopped short.
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