" Ruth repeated the word, not in the effect of a query, but ruminantly. 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. Just as the clergyman approached the altar, she perceived a boy steal quickly into the church, and ensconce himself behind the woollen-draper, who, in order to carry on his amatory pursuits with greater convenience, and at the same time display his figure (of which he was not a little vain) to the utmost advantage, preferred a standing to a sitting posture. Then Alderman Dunstable, who had hitherto been silent, broke out into speech and went off at a tangent, and gave his personal impressions of quite a number of his fellow-councillors. There was something markedly and deliberately liberal-minded in his manner in all their encounters. By and by he gathered enough courage to lean toward her. And, if you hear any odd noise in the parlour, don't mind it. "O God!" he exclaimed, "I am severely punished. And you think I would marry you?’ ‘Why not? I am unworthy, eh? Because I am a servant. In the first place, it will be damnably dull. ‘Like you?’ ‘But I am not French. ’ ‘Excellent,’ Gerald had approved. ” Anna looked for a moment steadily at her sister, whose face was still averted. ” “And if you are a millionaire like Drummond,” someone remarked, “you send round a note and ask her to come out to supper.
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