Part 5
After the interview Ann Veronica considered herself formally cut off from
home. “Mr. "I have just parted from one," said Trenchard. You have darkened your eyebrows, you
have even changed your style of dress. That’s why I chucked Manning. Then fury claimed her and she could no longer pretend. ’
‘Get going, then,’ Trodger told his men. The party resolved itself for Ann Veronica into a
game in which she manoeuvred unostentatiously and finally unsuccessfully to
avoid talking alone with this gentleman. Very central in Miss Miniver’s universe were the Goopes. "That's well," replied Wild, entering the house, and fastening the door. Every one took him for the millionaire, and he had lost his head about
me. Whatever he wrote he was: he became this or that character, he suffered or
prospered equally. 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. In the periphery of her vision, she saw the door pulled back. This morning I met him at the dock, and he wouldn't
take the other fifty.
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