’ ‘Pah! You can never be Valade. Love … to take her in his arms and to comfort her: and then to add to her cup of bitterness the knowledge that her husband was a thief! For himself he did not care; God could continue to grind and pulverize him; but to add another grain to the evil he had already wrought upon Ruth was unthinkable. He had already spoken his mind on the folly of allowing a clearly dangerous female to escape a second time. ‘You see,’ he pursued blandly, ‘I lead a life of the most intolerable boredom. She nodded. “It is just six o’clock now. “I always get off here and lean over that rail for a bit. “You are the most perfect, the most glorious of created things—tender, frank intellectual, brave, beautiful. ‘When I thought to make them sympathique for me, with a little tear, you understand, and some tricks feminine of this kind—’ ‘Feminine tricks, too?’ cut in Gerald admiringly, controlling a quivering lip. “Last time I saw you,” he reminded her, “you spoke, did you not, of obtaining some employment in London. ’ He thought she wished to conceal her identity because of the connexion with you, and he offered her an engagement at once. 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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