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. Very well. People, nobody, can do as they like in this world. ‘I had no need of the place, and there was no money, of course. " "What!" she exclaimed, staring eagerly in his face. It is that you cannot refuse her sanctuary. It was horrible, but what could she do? She meant to live her own life, and he meant, with contempt and insults, to prevent her. The first stroke appeared to arouse all the vindictive passions of Jonathan. In vain Wood protested his innocence. Wherein she differed but little from her young sisters. Altogether, it was a hideous and revolting sight. It was then that the young man entered his thought with some permanency: because there was no apparent reason for his joining the tour, since from the beginning he had shown no interest in anything. I hid because there was no other way of seeing you. To preach a fine sermon every Sunday so that he would lose neither the art nor the impulse; and this child, in secret rebellion, taking it down in long hand during odd hours in the week! Preaching grandiloquently before a few score natives who understood little beyond the gestures, for the single purpose of warding off disintegration! It reminded the doctor of a stubborn retreat; from barricade to barricade, grimly fighting to keep the enemy at bay, that insidious enemy of the white man in the South Seas—inertia.
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