Jonathan nodded assent. ‘I will not, if you will assure me that an imbecile is a better marriage prospect than a starving pig. “You were talking to that fellow Ramage to-day—in the Avenue. ” Lucy said, leading him upstairs behind her. 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. The Cantonese, excepting in the shops where he expects profit, always resents the intrusion of the fan-quei—foreign devil. She fled. "An audience might have frightened the birds. "How long will he be laid up?" "Three or four weeks, if he doesn't peg out during the night.
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