” They were in the elder Widgett girl’s bedroom; Hetty was laid up, she said, with a sprained ankle, and a miscellaneous party was gossiping away her tedium. Whenever McClintock had guests, he loafed with them on the west veranda in the morning. He had taken it back. By-the-bye, have you seen this new woman at the ‘Empire’? What is it they call her—‘Alcide?’” “Yes, I have seen her,” Ennison answered. It seemed to him that a sort of mist had risen up between them. Manning had shown on previous occasions that he found Ann Veronica interesting and that he wished to interest her. The hurricane appeared to have raged in this quarter with tenfold fury. 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. “It seems—It’s interesting. "And now, mark me. " "Impossible," replied Sheppard, in the same tone.
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