On his third visit to the island
she had surprised him, that is, she had glanced up suddenly and caught the look
of the beast in his eyes. For five days The Tigress chugged her way across the burnished South China,
grumpily, as if she resented this meddling with her destiny. "As yet," pursued the stranger, "Sir Montacute had placed no limit to his son's
expenditure. She drew a chair to the window and stared at the splendour
of the tropical night. “Women would—they DO have far more power than they think, as influences,
as inspirations. “Perhaps,” she said, “it is the London climate. In consequence of the infamous abuse of its liberties, an act for the entire
suppression of the Old Mint was passed in the ninth year of the reign of George
the First, not many months before the date of the present epoch of this history;
and as, after the destruction of Whitefriars, which took place in the reign of
Charles the Second, owing to the protection afforded by its inmates to the
Levellers and Fifth-monarchy-men, when the inhabitants of Alsatia crossed the
water, and settled themselves in the borough of Southwark,—so now, driven out
of their fastnesses, they again migrated, and recrossing the Thames, settled in
Wapping, in a miserable quarter between Artichoke Lane and Nightingale Lane,
which they termed the New Mint. ‘There’s no controlling you, is there?’ He held up his hands. 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.
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