At first she thought he was endeavouring to rid himself of the fleas, but after a time she came to understand that the muck had healing qualities and soothed the burning scratches made by his claws. ” He looked at her thoughtfully. “I think I can tell you something which may be very good news for you presently. ’ ‘That’s better. Gerald took Madame’s hand and kissed the fingers with a little more warmth than punctilio demanded. Or had she, like himself, been held up until the fellow returned to town? He waited, his ready humour anticipating her likely reaction. 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. ‘Not from the nuns, no. ” She spoke like a mistress addressing school-children. . ” “I suppose not. . Meantime, a change had taken place in the weather.
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