They sat down, McClintock reaching for a lump of sugar which he began munching. “It’s very good,” she said. The girl stood with her hands behind her back, sulky, resolute, and intelligent, a strand of her black hair over one eye and looking more than usually delicate-featured, and more than ever like an obdurate child. The sun was rising, illuminating the trees in black as if they were drawn in ink. Her grave fine face, her warm clear complexion, had already aroused his curiosity as he had gone to and fro in Morningside Park, and here suddenly he was near to her and talking freely and intimately. “You are magnificent,” she said, “but the steel of your truth is a little oversharpened. One of your arms shall be drawn to one side of the room, and the other arm to the other side, and your legs shall be served in the like manner. Borne in the arms of a couple of assistants, and preceded by Mrs. ” Again on his way homeward from Cavendish Square he abandoned the direct route to pass by the door of Anna’s flat. She was greatly heartened by doing this. 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. "Do you mean to say you will interfere—" "I mean to say this," interrupted Wild, with contemptuous calmness, "that I'll neither allow you to leave England nor the profession you've engaged in. One’s got to be a better man than one’s father, or what is the good of successive generations? Life is rebellion, or nothing.
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