" "Now for it," thought the woollen-draper, "I shall, at least, ascertain how the land lies. There was a gulf of eight years between her and the youngest of her brace of sisters—an impassable gulf inhabited chaotically by two noisy brothers. 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. But her husband, whose deportment to her was considerably changed since the fatal knot had been tied, paid no attention whatever to her grief. 195 < 24 > A CITY IN GREECE, 589 B. Set on unravelling her secrets, Gerald pursues every possible clue—much to the indignation of Mademoiselle. ’ Miss Froxfield intervened quickly as her betrothed showed signs of erupting again. “He dissembles,” he said. The Leads. ” He asked questions and listened to her views for a time. She has had offers innumerable; for where wealth and beauty are combined, as in her instance, suitors are seldom wanting. He wants you so, he is still a virgin.
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