Sebastian sat smirking in amusement. ‘You cannot mean General Charvill?’ ‘That old martinet?’ exclaimed Roding. 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 eggs were all right, but nobody in this part of the world had the least conception of what the coffee bean was for. It looked very patient, she thought, and a little self-satisfied. And let us go on with our evening. Such stories were increasingly heard in English society. At Morningside Park I feel as though all my growing up was presently to stop, as though I was being shut in from the light of life, and, as they say in botany, etiolated. The hardest bout I ever had was with a woman—Sally Wells, who was afterwards lagged for shoplifting. "My portrait!" echoed Jack. 1.
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