His first reaction had been explosive as the hurts of the past rose up to taunt him. ”
“No. "And now
to dispose of our dead. I once might have married you for your beauty,—now I marry you
for your wealth. "
"You might trust me," said Rachel, in an offended tone; "but never mind. Here she seems to have developed into a brilliant
woman with more character and steadfastness than I should ever have given her
credit for. Not a job he may care about; but he's a good sport. 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. She said that? To be closer to you?”
“I think she is plotting something, though I cannot
guess what. “I’ll have to pay it. You’ve got me. The day is already
half over.
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