Little things, almost impalpable, had happened to justify that
doubt; something in his manner had belied his words. Nor had Jack been idle all this time. She had always had a
wonderful ear for phrasing, even back in the days of the
viol. "I do," replied Jack, carelessly. Buried under various ancestral sixteenths, smothered under
modern thought, liberty of action and bewildering variety of flesh-pots, it was
still alive to the extent that it needed only his present state to resuscitate it in all
its peculiar force. Lucy was sent
reeling into a stone wall, which she hit with a great thud. 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. \"
\"Would you like me to carry some of the books? I
have nothing to bring home today.
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