” He declared that no book could be satisfactory that left a bad taste in the mouth, however much it seized and interested the reader at the time. I don't know; I really don't know," she found herself repeating. "We'll see," returned the thief-taker. 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. We were fellow passengers from Charing Cross, and we have been fellow lodgers in the Rue d’Entrepot. She looked at the suitcase sadly and stashed it underneath her bed. Ennison, who had been standing with his back to the window, came suddenly a little further into the room. He was a comforting, humorous old ruffian; but there were few men in the Orient more deeply read in psychology and physiognomy. They became aware of the waitress standing over them with book and pencil ready for their bill.
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