Lucy sized up the girl. I spent agonizing weeks wandering Mantua in search of you, finally arriving at the idea of asking someone who you were. " "Is she alive?" repeated the widow. She took it for granted Ann Veronica wore stays—mild stays, perhaps, but stays, and thought no more of the matter. ’ The girl nodded understandingly. ’ Melusine’s eyes flashed. It was he who saw them first coming down the room—Annabel in a wonderful white satin gown in front, and Sir John stiff, unbending, disapproving, bringing up the rear. Then Ann Veronica passed on toward the tea in the garden, which was dotted with the elite of Morningside Park society, and there she was pounced upon by Lady Palsworthy and given tea and led about. Hitherto you’ve seen only my easy, kindly side. And two other ladies. Purney, the ordinary, who had latterly conceived a great regard for Jack, addressed him in a discourse, which, while it tended to keep alive his feelings of penitence, was calculated to afford him much consolation. 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. He felt his heart beat faster and faster—his self-restraint slipping away.
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