" "Not if it will hurt her. Anna turned round with a start, which was almost of guilt, the poker still in her hand. He had known she would be shocked, but he was equally certain Melusine would have refused to see her grandfather had she been forewarned. Everybody talking of you. She had a vision of policemen, reproving magistrates, a crowded court, public disgrace. He forgot for the moment his own self-pity, the egotism of his own passionate love. There was a third lady among the younger set. 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 then I made the mistake of testing it indoors. He never cries nor frets, as children generally do, but lies at my bosom, or on my knee, as quiet and as gentle as you see him now.
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