Part 5 In the beginning of December Ann Veronica began to speculate privately upon the procedure of pawning. “We can,” he said, “and we will. I am something of an old fogey, Anna, I’m afraid, but if you treat me like this you will teach me to forget it. ’ Melusine sobered, sitting down again. 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. 235 “No, I think she’s out sick with a throat infection. Perhaps I ought to have let you order the dinner, but I think I got through it pretty well. The weather's been foul enough for the last fortnight, but I've never turned my back upon it. “I did,” Anna answered. All who lived there aspired to be something greater, all who lived there had hope, even the slaves! Oh, Lucia, if you could have seen the Parthenon, or attended the plays at the Athaneum, you would know why I loved it there.
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