” John’s father added. “I may not see the Widgetts for some little time, father,” she said. Ann Veronica found herself incompetent, undignified, and detestable, holding on desperately to a hardening antagonism to her father, quarrelling with him, wrangling with him, thinking of repartees—almost as if he was a brother. “Were you ever in love, aunt?” she asked. He would take with him that traitress Yolande, and claim to the lawyer that this was Melusine Charvill. “I do mean that,” she declared. The next moment his grasp relaxed, and he sank to rise no more. “Don’t fence with me,” Anna cried fiercely. CHAPTER XIII. That for you!" And she snapped her fingers in his face. But you—you have a good face. The folds of a thick muslin neckcloth in some degree protected him, but the gash was desperate. 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. Descending the hollow, or rather excavation,—for it was an old disused clay-pit, at the bottom of which the cottage was situated,—he speedily succeeded in arousing the ancient sibyl, and having committed Edgeworth Bess to her care, with a promise of an abundant reward in case she watched diligently over her safety, and attended to her comforts till his return,—to all which Black Mary readily agreed,—he departed with a heart lightened of half its load.
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