" He passed it over; and Ruth read: To be opened in case of my death and the letter inside forwarded to the address thereon. ” “It is within yours—if anybody’s,” he answered. “No!” he said aloud at last. The sky was cloudless, effulgent blue. But it was almost choked up with fallen stacks of chimneys, broken beams of timber, and shattered tiles. ” Ann Veronica sat over her fire with her father’s note in her hand. ’ ‘Pah! Your major will say something to this. . One thing—he could be thankful for that—the peak of his misfortunes had been reached; the world might come to an end now and not matter in the least. It is no crime, none at all. 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. They’re just a joyous softening of the outline—more beautiful than perfection. I had that coming.
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