The End of a Childhood

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Henry Handel Richardson. The End of a Childhood

The End of a Childhood

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The End Of a Childhood. Four Further Chapters In The Life Of Cuffy Mahony

I

II

III

IV

Growing Pains. Sketches of Girlhood

The Bathe. A Grotesque

Three In A Row

Preliminary Canter

Conversation in a Pantry

The Bath. An Aquarelle

The Wrong Turning

"And Women Must Weep"—"For men must work"

Two Hanged Women

Two Tales of Old Strasbourg

Life And Death of Peterle Luthy

The Professor's Experiment

Succedaneum

Mary Christina

The Coat

Sister Ann

THE END

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Henry Handel Richardson

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Next morning, though she ached from top to toe, Mary managed to drag herself into the office, where she sat to work, her leg—by now it was discoloured, and acutely painful to the touch—stretched out before her on a stool. But in spite of all her care it grew worse instead of better; and by the end of the third day, being still unable to stand, she gave the journey to Melbourne up as lost. Here she would need to stay.

Having handed over charge to her deputy, who had now to lodge at the primitive hotel, she strove to resign herself to an inactivity that was new to her. Not that she was idle: she mended, darned, knitted, without stopping. Yet soon it began to seem to her, who had so seldom been off her feet, that all she really did was to lie there, hour after hour, day after day, listening to time tick past, waiting for an improvement that would not come.

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