The great ordeal—that which she had most dreaded—had proved to be no ordeal at all. Why wasn't the world full of love, when love made happiness? Why did people hide their natural kindliness as if it were something shameful? Why shouldn't people say what they thought and act as they were inclined? Why all this pother about what one's neighbour thought, when this pother was not energized by any good will? Why was truth avoided as the plague? Why did this young man have one name on the hotel register and another on his lips? Why was she bothering about him at all? Why should there be this inexplicable compassion, when the normal sensation should have been repellance? Sidney Carton. Whisky kills him suddenly; it does not sap him gradually. 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 next question, Miss Anna,” he said, “is how am I to help you? I am wholly at your disposal. The mock astonishment of his face immediately became genuine. “Odd!” he remarked, rather surprisingly, after a little interval. She did not question or analyze the craving; she took the plunge joyously. You’ll have to go back to Remenham House. Priests and princes sought his knowledge of languages and philosophy and wantonly tried to throw themselves into his bed.
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