‘For God’s sake, let go my hand,’ he begged. "Jack is just gone back to the Condemned Hold. However, I'll make a last effort to save the poor little creature, if it costs me my life. “You say that he is alive. “Oh, Michelle, I’m such a miserable fool. “Admirably, thank you,” Anna answered. But such was the violence of his grief,—such the compunction he exhibited, that all but one looked on with an eye of compassion. 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. She cried out his name in ecstasy. ‘Sapristi. And, if it had not been for a taste for plotting, which was continually getting him into scrapes, he might have been accounted a respectable member of society.
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