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She leaped suddenly at a desperate resolution, and in one moment had made it
into a new self. Wild," he said, in a sarcastic tone, but with great firmness; "a person of
your well-known sagacity must be aware that some secrets are dangerous to the
possessor. However, to cut a long matter short, my proposal's this:
—I've taken a fancy to your bantling, and, as I've no son of my own, if it meets
with your concurrence and that of Mrs. ’
‘Entertained, he says!’
‘Intrigued, then,’ amended Gerald equably, although truth to tell he was
enjoying the mystery enormously. He kissed her once inside the car. But I am not indisposed to
gratify you. ”
“Why did you keep her all of these years? What good
can it do?”
“She created me, Lucia. ’
‘Truly?’ Melusine said excitedly. 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.
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