I’d need to be out of my senses. The bed-and table-linen were of the finest
texture. If you can tell me nothing I don’t already know, so be
it. ‘I’ll take wine,’ the lady said briefly, turning back instantly to Hilary. Voting wouldn’t do no ‘arm to ‘er. 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. “I had thought to go on to Kandersteg,” said Capes, “but this is a pleasant
place. Ennison?”
“He spoke to me, thinking that I was you,” Anna answered. ’
‘Yes, well, I was too young to see it,’ the captain said, tying a knot in his
makeshift bandage. He made some obvious comments on the wide view warming toward its
autumnal blaze that spread itself in hill and valley, wood and village, below. “So I see that you have become content with your
hardscrabble existence, your week-to-week survival, your
Martin Chen!”
“Who?”
“Your limp-wristed lover!”
“Um. ”
“You think that you can do that?”
“I am sure of it,” he answered, confidently.
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