“You seem to have cultivated quite a jaunty appearance, and you certainly look years younger. I had a hard fight to begin with to win my way into the Upper Division—I was third on a list of fortyseven—and since then I have found myself promoted almost yearly in a widening sphere of social service. ‘You are the one that I have met in London. ” The talk was animated, and remained always brilliant in form even when it ceased to be brilliant in substance. "But McClintock agrees to take you both—because he's as big a fool as I am. To wait for hours and hours for the night! The sea empty for days! You forgot the monotony, the endless monotony, that bends you and breaks you and crushes you—you forgot that!" Her voice had steadily risen until it was charged with passionate anger. "Are you a poltroon, after all?" "That's it! I ought to have died that night!" "Or is there a taint of insanity in your family history? Alone and practically penniless like yourself! You weren't even stirred by gratitude. 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. I somehow understood. "Children," said the aunt, first to awake, "be young fools as long as God will permit you. If he wished, he could even take this inheritance from her. ’ ‘I suppose you want to take her along as well as that infernal stolen horse?’ said Hilary sarcastically. . . That is why I am here.
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