The doors of
several of the wards were thrown open for these parties, and as Jack passed, he
could not help glancing at the wretched inmates. 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. Do you accept it?"
"Dear Thames!"
"Forgive this ill-timed avowal of my love. His name is Taber?"
"Howard Taber. Part 9
The realization that she was in love flooded Ann Veronica’s mind, and altered
the quality of all its topics. On the contrary, his glass was never idle, and finding it not filled quite so
frequently as he desired, he applied himself, notwithstanding the expressive
looks and muttered remonstrances of Mr.
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