Come close to me, and let me hold your hand, dear. ‘And it is me you dare accuse? It is yourself you should arrest. Ann Veronica liked their relationship all the more because it was an unusual one. It frightened her to behold her heart and mind thus laid bare; but the chapter following would reassure her. . You care for me a little, I know. Lord knew why he had any interest in an impertinent girl who would certainly have spit him with that dagger! He reached into his pocket and brought it out, examining it in the increasing light as he slowly made his way back up the terrace. He was accustomed to such surprises, and enjoyed them. He did not notice that Ann Veronica was preoccupied and heavy-eyed. And, yet, I don't know. Why should he stare at her in this fashion?—for all the world as if she had pointed a pistol at his head? CHAPTER III He had said it, spoken it like that … his own name! After all these weeks of trying to obliterate even the memory of it!… to have given it to this girl without her asking! The thought of peril cleared a space in the alcoholic fog. The Ragged Edge. 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.
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