But as the mystery which surrounded Ruth fell away that which enveloped her father thickened. He carried her in his arms up the steps, like a bride on her honeymoon. The palanquin is hired and so is the procession. There was no one at all in this room, but through the half-open door of one of the small apartments that gave upon it she had a glimpse of two very young girls sitting at a littered table and writing briskly. It clicked and the bookshelf was once more intact. So that the thought of Ann Veronica up-stairs had been extremely painful for her through all the silent dinner-time that night. 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.
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