There were moments when Ann Veronica
rather more than suspected the chief speakers to be, as school-boys say, showing
off at her. “The dawn!” said Miss Miniver, with her glasses reflecting the fire like pools
of blood-red flame. “Please forgive me coming up, Miss
Pellissier, but you have not been down to dinner for three nights, and—Brendon
and I—we were afraid that you might be unwell. ‘Comment? What do you say?’
Gerald looked down into her face, and found himself touched by the
uncertainty he saw there. I have counted you, and always hoped to count you,
the best of my friends. “Certainly I was a little way off at the café, and she had a hat and veil
on, but I could have sworn that it was ‘Alcide. 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 both of them puttering about the tidy
two-story house, Lucy would serve them both steaming
cups of tea in the front parlor. "
"Hold!" exclaimed the carpenter, in an authoritative voice: "we can't part thus. Wood," said she, in the deep, hoarse accents of
consumption; "and may God Almighty bless and reward you for your kindness!
You were always the best of masters to my poor husband; and now you've
proved the best of friends to his widow and orphan boy. ”
“I hope,” he answered, looking at her in some surprise, “that we shall have many
more such to think about. ”
“I don’t understand. "
"I see. "You poor child!" said Prudence.
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