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 felt her forehead repeatedly break out in a light sweat. It did not cheer or fortify him with false courage and recklessness; it simply enveloped him in a mist of unreality. While he was thus musing, two horsemen rode past him; and, proceeding to a little distance, stopped likewise. " Sir Rowland made no reply, but angrily quickened his pace. She seemed to think he was merely the paymaster, handing over the means of her freedom.
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