"Well, you never can tell," he continued, lamely. His arm closed in around her middle and she was caught. 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. And so bitterly did the carpenter reproach himself with his neglect, that he resolved, at all risks, to go back in search of it. A white house that she often found charming loomed gray and ashen, its gardens shorn for the coming winter. "But it won't do.
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