"I shall want nothing more. We understand that, notwithstanding the serious nature of the man’s injuries, there is every possibility of his recovery. “I do hope you will see how things are, and not be offended with me or frightfully shocked and distressed by what I have done. Jack, whose clothes were covered with dust, and whose face was deathly pale from his recent exertion, looked more like a phantom than a living person. Vee’s all right. "I have not told you half. 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. What had urged her to wrench loose and fly was the guarding instinct of the good woman. ‘No one would credit that you are three years older than I. He brought into service all his Oriental bar-room tricks.
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