And then, as she stood there, with the fragments of the torn canvas at her feet, some even caught upon her skirt, the door was thrown open, and a girl entered humming a light tune. “Thank you—for coming,” he said. She could not part with dignity. She was as pale as death, but she seemed to have lost the power of movement. There was some justification for her annoyance, for negotiation of the secret passage demanded either a stout heart, or a desperate one. ‘Oh, I don’t wish to marry you. For a moment he believed this merely a new phase of the dream. 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. Naturally you shout yourself hoarse when she has finished, and feel jolly pleased with yourself. When he was concentrating, deep shadows formed under his gray eyes. “There are no males at men to stare; A man scores always, everywhere. It would put the whole adventure on a broader and better footing; it seemed, indeed, almost the only possible way in which she might emerge from her rebellion with anything like success.
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