Ruth went on to explain. Cowering in a corner upon a heap of straw sat his unfortunate mother, the complete wreck of what she had been. 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. They were a dull grey, but the dark frizzed hair that framed her face was attractive. Lead the lad to suppose that he'll be introduced to Lady Trafford. I was reduced to 170 a fool, for there were many pretty women from all walks of life in that teeming city. I am come to serve you. My best endeavours shall be used to bring you off, on the easy terms I have mentioned. The Widgetts talked with a remarkable absence of external coverings; the Palsworthys found all the meanings of life on its surfaces. Ennison had disappeared. CHAPTER X.
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