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. If I am to have no other opportunity I will speak before them. She found Rhea
trapped under a rock, her skeletal head exposed. "
"All right, teacher; I'll shave and comb my hair. She fluttered it with
a trembling hand, averting her eyes from his, and he could hear her uneven
breath behind it. ’
Taking the chair she had indicated with a careless wave of one stiff-fingered
hand, Gerald felt hope burgeoning. It was a perfect windless spring day, a Sunday. ”
Ann Veronica was deciding for further confidences. But her great-aunt was
nodding, as if this was what she had expected. The showers of Second Period Physical Education
class became another front on the battleground. This person, whose age might be about forty,
was attired in a brown double-breasted frieze coat, with very wide skirts, and a
very narrow collar; a light drugget waistcoat, with pockets reaching to the knees;
black plush breeches; grey worsted hose; and shoes with round toes, wooden
heels, and high quarters, fastened by small silver buckles.
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