Fancying they were alone, Sir Rowland threw aside his cloak, and produced a heavy bag of money, which he flung upon the table; and, when Wild had feasted his greedy eyes sufficiently upon its golden contents, he handed him a pocketbook filled with notes. "Why do you laugh?" he asked. "If you mean to accompany us, you may need it. He then made a sort of running noose, passed it over her body, and taking firmly hold of the bars, prepared to guide her descent. He came to the door and as he opened it a crack, she pushed herself inside urgently. She propped a pillow against his padded headboard and sat herself into a stiff upright position, legs expertly crossed. Courtlaw found himself ushered without questions into Annabel’s long low drawing-room, fragrant with flowers and somewhat to his surprise, crowded with guests. For all that, Ah Cum was forced to admit that his charge did not look dissipated. The smell assaulted them even before they entered the restaurant, greasy and savory. I’ve never had these crying fits before. 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. “Would you wait for me?” Manning was silent for a space.
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