Her first orders were to summon the rest of her servants to make immediate preparations for her departure for Lancashire. 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. ***** At the end of each day Ah Cum would inquire as to the progress of the patient, and invariably the answer was: "About the same. Ah, but she could remember; and many things there were that she would never forgive. She only weighed about 100 pounds and she was about 5’9”, much taller than you and I. Particularly when it was obvious the fellow was one of these pitiful wretches weak enough to allow themselves to be ousted from their inheritances and thus obliged to come seeking succour of their neighbours. There was a lot of that, John, a great deal of hunger.
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