Sudden indignation boiled up in him. That old chap has a remarkable range in reading. He laughed lightly. He rose, steadied himself, then walked out of the dining room. ‘This was a picture of Mary Remenham that I have found today. It was a boy baby cooing in swaddling clothes, a baby who had just been born to the butcher's servant across the alley, the maid Isobella who trailed behind, beaming. Lucy slipped upstairs silently. She posed herself before her mirror and surveyed herself with gravely thoughtful, gravely critical, and yet admiring eyes. 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 am come to serve you.
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