Earles with composure into the inner room. He talked at the blackboard in
a pleasant, very slightly lisping voice with a curious spontaneity, and was
sometimes very clumsy in his exposition, and sometimes very vivid. She
chose to hold her nose. Spurlock plodded through the heavy sand, leaden in the heart and mind as well
as in the feet. She was consumed by misery and hate. She was a woman now to the tips of her fingers; she had said
good-bye to her girlhood in the old garden four years and a quarter ago. Anna, who
had thrown aside her sealskin coat, wore a tight-fitting walking dress of some
dark shade. A thickly-set, sandy young man, with an
unwholesome complexion and grease-smooth hair, had entered the room. 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. "
The lad made no answer, but left the room. He had informed her that to leave him would be
a choice to live a life of meager subsistence. He read but little, and that chiefly healthy light fiction with chromatic titles,
The Red Sword, The Black Helmet, The Purple Robe, also in order “to distract
his mind. A lovely, fetching girl. ‘That is not your affair. I’d take it—
forgive me if I seem a little urgent—as a sort of proof of friendliness.
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