Even the love of a
mother does not sway him. ‘She’s wearing a lightskirt’s
clothing?’
‘Nothing obviously so, I assure you. "Perhaps. “But of course it’s aunt’s doing really. . You don’t know. “I knew of course that you were at
the Montressor’s, but I had no idea that it was a music hall party afterwards. Was there ever such madness?”
“I am afraid that I don’t understand,” Ennison answered. 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. Returning to the audience-chamber, Blueskin had the Jew brought before him. ”
“You are separated from your wife?”
“Yes, but do you know how?”
“Not exactly. ”
They hesitated. “In any case, I decline to see you alone. Wherein she differed but little from her young sisters.
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