‘I had no need of the place, and there was no money, of course. Anyhow, he did not sentimentalize her. But here was a girl—she must be a girl, since she was his daughter and pat-able—imitating the woman quite remarkably and cleverly. He had known she would be shocked, but he was equally certain Melusine would have refused to see her grandfather had she been forewarned. Until that moment, Jarvis had imagined the child to be safe in the wet-nurse’s cottage. "Many thanks, Sir," replied Thornhill, with freezing politeness; "but Id not require assistance. Tears started to the young man's eyes on beholding the change, and it was with difficulty he could command himself sufficiently to make the inquiries he desired to do respecting the former owner of the house. Before you have lived—” He became darkly prophetic. But he knew. ‘I try to be. "Is she married?" he asked, after a brief pause. 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. The spinster saw herself growing warm again in the morning sunshine of youth —a flaring ember before the hearth grew cold.
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