He had barely settled at his desk in his library, when he was disturbed by two morning callers. But they found him on the veranda when they returned from McClintock's that evening. " The girl smiled and began to munch a sandwich. A beachcomber in embryo, and she had lent a hand through habit as much as through pity. The dress of this person was excessively showy, and consisted of a scarlet riding-habit, lined and faced with blue, and bedizened with broad gold lace, a green silk-knit waistcoat, embroidered with silver, and decorated with a deep fringe, together with a hat tricked out in the same gaudy style. Marvel was almost dislodged from his seat on the coffin by a dead dog, which was hurled against him, and struck him in the face. ” Her elation teetered in mid-air for a second, then began to flutter down around her like a badly-built house of cards. 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. ” “There was no marriage,” she answered. Kneebone smiled assent.
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