"You read it, Ruth. And then all her restlessness was turned to joy. I have recently made your sister’s acquaintance, and in the course of conversation I understood from her that her Christian name was Anna. The cloth was removed, and Wood, drawing the table as near the window as possible—for it was getting dusk —put on his spectacles, and opened that sacred volume from which the best consolation in affliction is derived, and left the lovers—for such they may now be fairly termed—to their own conversation. “My name is certainly Pellissier,” she said, “but I am very sorry—I do not recognize you in the least. It had been intensified and corrupted by time, as if to add insult to injury. Lucy stood relieved that she had not messed up the solo. 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. In length the arch exceeded seventy feet. “An uncle in New York is dead, and has left him loads of money.
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