98 < 13 > THE ISLAND CASTLE AT HERCULIS Life with Sebastian was often trying, yet he grew on her far more than Gianfrancesco ever had. How many nuns were there in England who might have occasion to spy on Lady Bicknacre’s ballroom? The presence of the French refugees took on greater significance. " "Very well, Sir," replied Sheppard. ‘Can’t you trust me a little?’ His touch sent shivers running through her, but Melusine did not withdraw her hand. Almost instantly she had recognized the fallacy of such a statement. She went to the basement and shed her sodden coat and scarf, tossing them into her favorite modern appliance, the electric dryer. 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. ” “It is ironic that you say that, John, for it is I who am afraid of you.
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