I might add that in any case I should not touch Sir John’s. ” She stopped buttoning her glove, and looked at him. That is what marriage is to most young women: the ultimate escape from the family, from the unwritten laws that govern children. It is your own choice, isn’t it?” She nodded. ” He stared at a little eddy. . She turned about, and was persecuted by visions, half memories, half dreams, of Ramage. 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. To buy the freedom of a poor little Chinese slave-girl! For what was the sing-song girl but a slave, the double slave of custom and of men? Ruth wanted to know keenly what had impelled the idea.
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