‘What Gerald wants with you has me beat. I suspect she knew
something, for she came home to Remenham House when she was increasing,
and report has it that she was very unhappy. . Having secured this implement, he burst from his
conductor, and, leaping into the hatch, as clowns generally spring into the clockfaces, when in pursuit of harlequin in the pantomime,—that is, back foremost,—
broke into a fit of loud and derisive laughter, kicking his heels merrily all the
time against the boards. Then he
put the paper by. “We’re going to be sensible. Charcoal. CHAPTER XVIII
The doctor reached for the key and studied it sombrely. So far she had the
utmost difficulty in getting on to that vitally important matter. Then he stood up and hailed a fiacre. I am a man—of a sort of experience. 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.
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