A knot of three policemen in conflict with her staggered toward Ann Veronica’s attendants and distracted their attention. Melusine opened her eyes at him. As he was conveyed thither, an incident occurred that produced a considerable impression on the feelings of the youthful offender. 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. After listening attentively for a short time without drawing breath, he became convinced that his apprehensions were groundless, and, greatly relieved, sat down upon the chair to rest himself and prepare for further efforts. Darting quickly to the chest that contained the priest’s vestments, she leapt onto it and reached her arm down to scrabble behind it on the floor. “MY DEAR FATHER,” she wrote,—“I have been thinking hard about everything since I was sent to this prison. And so is your companion,—the convict Sheppard. “I ought never have gone to the Zoo, I suppose. They buried him in Willesden churchyard after the robbery. I thought it better not to send him away till I'd mentioned the circumstance to you. Lucy? Come 177 on out. He knows everything.
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