Part 5
The Gwen affair happened when she was away at school at Marticombe-onSea, a term before she went to the High School, and was never very clear to her. Shotbolt nodded in token of acquiescence, and emitted an odd guttural sound. You have
changed from the veriest butterfly to a woman—you wear different clothes, you
have the air of another world. You’re a
far cry from your usual gloomy self these days. She had tasted freedom now, and so far she had not felt the need of
protection. His tone was kind and sympathetic. The weather's been foul
enough for the last fortnight, but I've never turned my back upon it. 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. Have you seen much of her lately?”
“Nothing at all,” he answered. The guineas are not for serving your mistress. He spent a good deal more money
and time than he could afford upon the little room at the top of the house, in
producing new lapidary apparatus and new microscopic accessories and in
rubbing down slices of rock to a transparent thinness and mounting them in a
beautiful and dignified manner. It was, in fact, a group of
interests quite unlike any other group, peculiar and special, and one to be
thoroughly ashamed of. The settlement was on the middle west coast. Stanley wanted to object strongly, but as he could not immediately think
how to put it, he contented himself with a grunt, and the motion was carried.
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