She was dressed as a white woman should be; and
that for the present satisfied her instincts. 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. I have never loved you. Wood's anxiety to please her distinguished guests speedily displayed itself
in a very plentiful, if not very dainty repast. "
"Poh! poh! say no more about it," rejoined the man hastily. "
"We waste time with this fellow," interposed Sir Cecil, "and may lose the object
of our quest, who, beyond doubt, has taken refuge in this building. Her eyes were soft and grave, and there was the faintest
of smiles upon her resolute lips. “You be off, missie,” said the fatherly policeman. Sheppard raised her eyes, and fixed them upon her interrogator. ’
‘Ah, you know about that, then?’
‘That much, yes. ’
Gerald could not suppress a grin. ’ He sighed. 1.
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