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She watched the people and hummed softly to herself. A vast indifference settled down upon him. “Come,” he said, “you can’t be meaning to bury yourself. 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. She did not wince. ‘Parbleu,’ she uttered indignantly. After all, life had still its pulsations. When first brought under consideration, she was a miserable and forlorn object; squalid in attire, haggard in looks, and emaciated in frame. "'And thine eye shall not pity,'" said her father, in a tone of rebuke, "'but, life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. Had he not said so? Not that she wished him to marry her. ‘Whither away, mademoiselle?’ he said grimly, ungently grasping her arm above the elbow. “I know you very well by sight, Sir John. Remember, in your story—look at it, scattered everywhere!—that line? We arrive at true happiness only through labyrinths of misery. The same night he met Meddoes and Drummond together, the latter over from Paris on a week’s leave from the Embassy. "You open it, Ruth.
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