‘I knew I should find you still here. In fact, it had been anciently the right hand postern under the gate leading towards the city. At least one of them was caught and put away. “You needn’t be anxious about that! I shall contrive to live. It was too good to be true. Some years ago, in 1715, just before the Rebellion, I was rash enough to league myself with the Jacobite party, and by Wild's machinations got clapped into Newgate, whence I was glad to escape with my head upon my shoulders. Think! Had you not better hurry back before Sir John discovers? You are his wife right enough. “Really, I do not know why I should have doubted it. She is your sister, and God knows I wish her none. “Don’t worry, Julian. 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. Even that he sleeps, I must give to him my thanks, for he has been excessively brave for me. Firmly built, as it was, the bridge creaked in such a manner with their contending efforts, that Abraham durst not venture beyond the door, where he stood, holding the light, a horrified spectator of the scene.
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