Then she threw the volume away with a little impatient exclamation. "
"Where did he get it?" inquired Wood, in surprise. There would be
no moon. "No, I tell you," rejoined Jonathan, shouldering his way out of the crowd. To her intense disappointment, she discovered that all papers had been
removed from desks and cupboards. O'Higgins was all that the doctor had
imagined a detective to be: a bulky policeman in civilian clothes. "
The lad made no answer, but left 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. “I can say no more. ”
“Oh my goodness. ”
She passed out without reply. There
was no response. They have no amenities, they scratch the mellow surface of things
almost as if they did it on purpose; and Lady Palsworthy and Mrs. Rollo barked. But
that doesn’t alter the fact that there IS innocence.
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