" "Well, Sir, I must say you deserve some credit for your ingenuity, at all events," replied Jonathan, repressing a smile; "but, before you put out your foot so far, it would have been quite as prudent to consider how you were to draw it back again. Had Gosse taken it as he escaped? What could she do? Gosse now knew that she was the daughter of Mary Remenham. And to think that man got it all out of the poorest little love-story for a respectable titled lady! Have you read of it?” “Never. \"Great!\" I'll drive you. She felt he was going to say something more—something still more personal and intimate. I wonder what he’ll say?” CHAPTER THE SIXTH EXPOSTULATIONS Part 1 The next morning opened calmly, and Ann Veronica sat in her own room, her very own room, and consumed an egg and marmalade, and read the advertisements in the Daily Telegraph. 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. “But—” The long inconsecutive conversation by that time was getting on her nerves.
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