Chapter XXIV A CASE FOR THE POLICE After that first horrible moment it was perhaps Anna who was the more selfpossessed. While this was effected, intelligence was brought that a formidable mob was pouring down Field Lane, the end of which was barricaded. He must fight the thought continually, day in and day out. 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. Can’t you see that Valade is an extremely dangerous man?’ ‘Do you think I am afraid of that pig?’ Gerald gave her a little shake. ” Sir John’s reply was incoherent. The man’s statement was explicit, and spoken with confidence. I am a little afraid. He is big and powerful; one of those drinkers who show it but little outwardly. ” “I suppose all men,” said Ann Veronica, in a tone of detached criticism, “get some such entanglement. I must see if I have a gown fit to wear. He opened the drawer of the writing table. She looked upon it with pity as she drank his diabetic blood and saw that several of his fingers were missing. ” “It is very nice of you,” Anna said softly. ‘I take it that you like this great-niece of mine?’ ‘One cannot help but do so.
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