There was a look in her eyes which puzzled him. Hetty, who had periods of lucid expression, put the thing for her from her pillow. " Abraham grinned, and silently followed his master, who, as soon as they reached the audience-chamber, poured out a bumper of spirits, and presented it to him. I had a perfect shoal of callers. "And who is this Van Gal—Gal—what's his outlandish name?" "Van Galgebrok," replied the widow. But, as he made no answer, he was removed. To be sure, Ruth had dimly been aware of this; but now for the first time she was made painfully conscious of 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. “That’s. It is different. Think better of it. But heavens, I must pack!” She sprang to her feet and disappeared in the room beyond, from which she emerged a few minutes later with flushed cheeks and dishevelled hair.
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