” She had had so much time to learn the violin that she often thought to herself that she ought to be much more skilled at it. But that was all over. In nearly every speech she heard was the same implication of great and necessary changes in the world—changes to be won by effort and sacrifice indeed, but surely to be won. The advanced guard had endeavoured to disperse the mob in Field Lane, but were not prepared to meet with the resistance they encountered. You think everything is harmless and simple, and so forth. ‘And this is where you have been all the time?’ ‘I would have been back in a day, I promise you. This is one of the late E. Ennison’s acquaintance. 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. The spinsters had purchased one grass-linen tablecloth; the girl and the young man had purchased nothing. This left Spurlock alone. It resembled Mardi Gras, and she thought disdainfully of New Orleans.
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