"
He stared at the agitated curtain; and slowly his chin sank until it touched his
chest. My janizaries are without. Are you sure you're not misinformed, Sir?"
"I was in the Lodge at the time," replied the jailer. But perhaps you don't know; there was nothing in the pockets. She could tell that he probably
wanted to kiss her, but she did not act upon the
opportunity. ’
‘I think you—’ He broke off abruptly, astonished at what he had been about to
say. 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. In Europe or in America people would have
smiled; but in Singapore—the half-way port of the world—where a human
kaleidoscope tumbles continuously east and west, no one had remarked her. Now let us forget it. She battled with a deadly
faintness, and she tottered rather than walked back to her seat. ’
‘So I see. It was owing to the untimely end of this poor fellow that Mrs. ” Lucy replied. She returned to
these latter, and at the back of her mind, as she looked them over again, was a
very distinct resolve to quote them after the manner of Miss Garvice at the very
first opportunity.
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