” 162 “Mmmm-hmmm. "A thousand pounds," he observed, gloomily, "is a heavy price to pay for doubtful secrecy, when certain silence might be so cheaply procured. " "I thought you told me that the rascal who has so long been the terror of the town —Jack Sheppard—was in custody. I somehow understood. Whatever he wrote he was: he became this or that character, he suffered or prospered equally. He may not be able to eat tin-cans, but he tries to. Mark you, she wasn’t the only one. 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.
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