Springing to his feet in an ecstasy of terror, he stumbled, and had well nigh realized his worst apprehensions. The lady whose husband had been Mayor of Hartlepool looked at Anna and sniffed. “A woman wants a proper alliance with a man, a man who is better stuff than herself. I was quite as much annoyed as you were to see Mr. A bobbing lantern, crossing the bridge—for she had not drawn the curtain—attracted her attention. Presently, two carriages dashed down the hill, and drew up before it. She hated to leave; for this hour would be the most interesting. 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. She complained of the crowded cities, dismayed that the people were repopulating them like rabbits. As in a dream, Melusine saw her faithful footman struck, his headlong progress checked. " "That, alone, ought to have prevented you from acting as you did, Jack," returned Thames, gravely.
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