To escape one phase of loneliness she had plunged into another, so vast that her courage sometimes faltered. 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. For nothing will ever convince me that it is not the man’s share in life to shield, to protect, to lead and toil and watch and battle with the world at large. He kissed her lightly on the lips. . In the beginning Ah Cum would run his glance speculatively over the assortment and select that individual who promised to be the most companionable. And, for one expedition at least, we will go up this desolate valley here to Mattmark, and so on to Monte Moro. Nothing else was put in their place, and they remained sotto voce, as it were, in his mind. But, if I were in your place, I know what I'd do—" "What—what would you do?" asked Hogarth, eagerly.
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