‘Now then, missie, where do you think you’re going?’ ‘I must see Jacques only for one little minute,’ Melusine told him prettily, fluttering her lashes. It was as if he could smell it on her. In a sense it alters nothing. “How did you become a vampire, then?” He asked. 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. I want you to think of me just as if I was a man, and quite outside marriage altogether. "I'm not going to get rid of you just yet. But if I painted her as I'd like to, the natives would instantly distrust me; and I'd have to build up confidence all over again.
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