Their idea of maidenly
innocence was just a blank white—the sort of flat white that doesn’t shine. What's that short for,
Lucille?\"
\"It is short for Lucia. “I wrote it for you. 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. "
"So she was," replied the woollen-draper, helping himself to an enormous pinch
of snuff with the air of a man who does not dislike to be rallied about his
gallantry,—"so she was. "Stir a foot, at
your peril. The prospect of the
gallows would never deter me from taking to the road, if I were so inclined. After a little
further discourse the old man took his departure. He was no doubt doing his best to express the attitude of society toward these
wearily heroic defendants, but he seemed to be merely rude and unfair to Ann
Veronica. "
"I cannot repent,—I cannot pray," replied Jack, recovering his hardened
demeanour. ”
“Well, perhaps it is a bit depressing. . With her foodle doo!
"I've a toast to propose," cried Sheppard, filling a bumper.
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