She made lumpish and inadequate interruptions rather than replies. “You know what? You’re right. “You are one of the Hampshire Pellissiers, I know, and your family are quite as good as ours. ‘Parbleu, the bullet is still inside you,’ Melusine guessed, remembering how the Mother Abbess had diagnosed Leonardo’s suffering when he had first come to the convent. Did you realize?\" Lucy's mouth twisted into a half-smile that she could not help. 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. 167 “True love is forever, isn’t it?” It was something a child would say, a phrase she had seen scratched on bathroom walls and maple trees, but it made her sad. The mighty concourse became for a moment still. As usual, however, on the occasion of any great calamity, a crowd was scouring the streets, whose sole object was plunder. “Annabel!” she exclaimed.
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