I am the cause of his ill-usage. The first peg was torture. He only laughed his defiance. “I want to ask you a question,” she said abruptly. Efforts were made to staunch his wounds and surgical assistance sent for. She wanted to take him in her arms and hush him, but she sat perfectly still. 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. Somehow her walk home with him had been transmogrified into a melodramatic rejection, a slamming.
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