Wild had a narrow escape lately, in that affair of Captain Darrell," observed Shotbolt. It began to rain, a cold sweat of precipitation that was more sickly than refreshing. "The nurses," she answered. ‘That’s better,’ said Gerald, and let her go. Observe it—a blue-serge coat. 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. Gravely he placed them in his aunt's hand. The Committee of Secrecy—that English Council of Ten—were sitting, with Walpole at their head; and the most extraordinary discoveries were reported to be made. He conveyed not only his sense of the extreme want of correctitude in their unsanctioned meetings, but also that, so far as he was concerned, this irregularity mattered not at all, that he had flung—and kept on flinging—such considerations to the wind. “A thick-set, coarse-looking young man, Anna!” she exclaimed in a hoarse excited whisper.
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