CHAPTER XVII. Ruth out of the picture, he wouldn't have concerned himself so eagerly in regard to Spurlock's departure. " "I see through your design, Jack," returned the carpenter, gravely; "but I don't like under-hand work. Let me run you for six months. He was a square-faced man of nearly fifty, with iron-gray hair a mobile, cleanshaven mouth and rather protuberant black eyes that now scrutinized Ann Veronica. 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. " "Please!" She dropped the curtains and the manuscripts, knelt and held out her arms. ‘She? Sa femme? That is the game then? That she could dare to take my place, that salope. "Most persons would have guessed my meaning.
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