” He extended his hand. It was the
expression of Miss Klegg’s face that put the idea into Ann Veronica’s head of
showing Manning at the College one day, an idea which she didn’t for some
reason or other carry out for a fortnight. Nevertheless there came a residuum of expostulations. "
"Hold your tongue, hussy!" cried her husband gruffly. ”
“And what do you think I ought to do?”
“Exactly!” He lifted a paper-weight and dabbed it gently down again. 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. Wasn’t it—a little bit of a
scene?”
“Oh! let me see. He wants you—or he doesn’t; and then
he helps some other woman against you. This is the first act. “Your father is dead too, I believe,” he continued, “and your mother. Taber is the name. The great
untrodden world was before her still, into which no one can pass alone.
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