” She paused. "We were close upon him when he suddenly disappeared. Sebastian rose from the tomb. 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 was safe, out of the beaten track, at last really comparable to the needle in the haystack. You have darkened your eyebrows, you have even changed your style of dress. ‘Now then, Gerald, out with it. All of which proves that the doctor also had his moments of distraction, with this difference: he was not distracted from his subject matter. The four tourists contributed varied sums: the spinsters ten cents each, the girl a shilling, the young man a Mexican dollar. I had a sort of idea,” he went on, “that you were starting life all over again, and it seemed awfully plucky. “Life’s so queer,” she said, kneeling and looking into the flames.
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