“Kindly explain it to me. 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. He measured out the portion of another peg, the bottle wavering in his hand. She had first picked up the fiddle back when it was still called a viol, that was how long she had been at it. “I don’t think she quite sees the harm of those people or the sort of life to which they would draw her,” she said. ‘You see,’ he pursued blandly, ‘I lead a life of the most intolerable boredom. David Courtlaw—Sir John Ferringhall. His heart hammered in his chest. “I think,” he said, “that you have found the real home of the lotus-eaters. ’ ‘I do not care any more about the portrait,’ Melusine said, opening the door to the attic corridor that gave off onto the row of little rooms that served as private cells for the senior nuns. It would not have been for her an anomaly to read a love story in which there were no kisses. How could she tell him what indeed already began to puzzle herself, why she had borrowed that money at all? The plain fact was that she had grabbed a bait.
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