The commissionaire stood there, tall and imperturbable. “And let us have a talk about this—some other time. 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. There was a murmur or two among the watchers on the bench, but no one ventured to intervene again. Not since she had discovered it had Ruth touched or opened the mission Bible; but to-night (the same upon which the wonderful manuscripts started on their long and circuitous voyage to America) she was inexplicably drawn to it. She had something of the feeling a Hindoo must experience who has been into surroundings or touched something that offends his caste. That was what she was trying to make him understand. That shining slope of snow, and how we talked of death! We might have died! Even when we are old, when we are rich as we may be, we won’t forget the tune when we cared nothing for anything but the joy of one another, when we risked everything for one another, when all the wrappings and coverings seemed to have fallen from life and left it light and fire. No; the future was not so dark; there was a bit of dawn visible. ‘Suppose you don’t know what sort of proof she was after?’ he asked. \"Didn't have any,\" replied Shari. She's plenty clean below. She was a trained being—trained by an implacable mother to one end.
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