’ With satisfaction, Gerald noted that her voice was hopelessly unsteady and drove home his advantage. She lay still for a long time, and her mind resumed at a more tolerable pace. He could quite understand the daughter of Mr. Jackson, gallantly. ‘You will keep yourself utterly quiet,’ he instructed, a growl in her ear as they headed for the door. There was nothing on her face to hint of the misery that brimmed her heart this morning. A time may come when this little chap will need my aid, and, depend upon it, he shall never want a friend in Owen Wood. A pane of glass was shivered by each stone. 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. “This is a charming place, and I have enjoyed the rest. Griffin, who held the same office in Westminster Gatehouse were left in the Lodge.
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