"I've the Bridewell account to settle. It remains a bizarre idea to me that Lucy Alberti could ever become so detailed or so real, but I’m certainly glad to have made her acquaintance. Her thoughts were busy with the possibilities of this break in her journey. A piece of old blanket was fastened across her shoulders, and she had no other clothing except a petticoat. She turned on the lad with her, who was visibly relieved. Her father’s ideas of expostulation were a little harsh and forcible, and over the claret-colored table-cloth and under the gas chandelier, with his hat and umbrella between them like the mace in Parliament, he and his daughter contrived to have a violent quarrel. Each arm of the blouse had the faintest of rings around the elbow, a stain that looked familiar. It would be swindling. Gerald watched her vanish into the darkness, unusually incensed. 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’d better treat you right this time or I’ll pulverize him, you hear?” Lucy gave in to the hug. She wanted to take him in her arms and hush him, but she sat perfectly still. I can smell you.
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