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Otherwise you will repent it. Not
that I see any objection, on principle, to incest; it strikes me as the
most natural proceeding in the world--"
"Dear me!"
"And yet--that inexplicable prejudice. It is probably artificial and of
modern origin. I suspect the priestly caste. Royal families kept up the
custom and do so still, like that of Siam. Odd, how anachronisms linger
longest at the two poles of society. What do you say," he went on, "to
climbing a little up that gorge, into the shade? I cannot digest
properly with the sun staring at me. And tell me, as we go along, your
impressions of the ruin. . . I perceive drawbacks to incest; grave
practical drawbacks--sterility, inbreeding. Yes, there is obviously
something to be said for exogamy. AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM as Eames might
say, though God knows why he thinks it sounds better in Latin. Seen the
ghost?"
The bishop remembered a certain answer given him by Madame Steynlin, to
whom he had once spoken of the "tonic" effects of Keith's conversation.


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