”
“Tolstoy is so good about this,” said Miss Miniver, regardless of her friend’s
attitude. He
glanced up at the coachman. He stood up, apparently intending to put an arm about her, but she
stepped back from him quickly. She was aware of the body of the court, of clerks seated at a black
table littered with papers, of policemen standing about stiffly with expressions of
conscious integrity, and a murmuring background of the heads and shoulders of
spectators close behind her. "
Aware apparently in some degree, of the mistake she had committed, the poor
maniac sprang towards him with frantic violence, and planted her long nails in
his cheek. First period was the time to be without her, as she was
consumed with some before-school activity as Lucy
barely made it to her first class in time for the bell. She slid her cheek down the tweed sleeve of his coat. She could no longer wait. She heard this
standard expression of a strong soul wrung with a critical coldness that
astonished herself. In a few
seconds, the shutter flew open,—then the window,—and they were in the room. "I took you for one who wouldn't hesitate to avail himself of any advantage
chance might throw in his way," returned the thief-taker, coldly. It is
magnificent indeed. 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.
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