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Miles Franklin. My Brilliant Career
My Brilliant Career
Table of Contents
PREFACE
HENRY LAWSON
CHAPTER. INTRODUCTION. ONE. I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER. TWO. AN INTRODUCTION TO POSSUM GULLY. THREE. A LIFELESS LIFE. FOUR. A CAREER WHICH SOON CAREERED TO AN END. FIVE. DISJOINTED SKETCHES AND CRUMBLES. SIX. REVOLT. SEVEN. WAS E'ER A ROSE WITHOUT ITS THORN? EIGHT. POSSUM GULLY LEFT BEHIND. HURRAH! HURRAH! NINE. AUNT HELEN'S RECIPE. TEN. EVERARD GREY. ELEVEN. YAH! TWELVE. ONE GRAND PASSION. THIRTEEN. HE. FOURTEEN. PRINCIPALLY LETTERS. FIFTEEN. WHEN THE HEART IS YOUNG. SIXTEEN. WHEN FORTUNE SMILES. SEVENTEEN. IDYLLS OF YOUTH. EIGHTEEN. AS SHORT AS I WISH HAD BEEN THE MAJORITY OF SERMONS TO WHICH I HAVE BEEN FORCED TO GIVE EAR. NINETEEN. THE 9TH OF NOVEMBER 1896
TWENTY-ONE. MY UNLADYLIKE BEHAVIOUR AGAIN. TWENTY-TWO. SWEET SEVENTEEN. TWENTY-THREE. AH, FOR ONE HOUR OF BURNING LOVE, 'TIS WORTH AN AGE OF COLD RESPECT! TWENTY-FOUR. THOU KNOWEST NOT WHAT A DAY MAY BRING FORTH. TWENTY-FIVE. BECAUSE? TWENTY-SIX. BOAST NOT THYSELF OF TOMORROW. TWENTY-SEVEN MY JOURNEY. TWENTY-EIGHT. TO LIFE
THIRTY. WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS, 'TIS FOLLY TO BE WISE. THIRTY-ONE. MR M'SWAT AND I HAVE A BUST-UP. THIRTY-TWO. TA-TA TO BARNEY'S GAP. THIRTY-THREE. BACK AT POSSUM GULLY. THIRTY-FOUR. BUT ABSENT FRIENDS ARE SOON FORGOT. THIRTY-FIVE. THE 3RD OF DECEMBER 1898. THIRTY-SIX. ONCE UPON A TIME, WHEN THE DAYS WERE LONG AND HOT. THIRTY-SEVEN. HE THAT DESPISETH LITTLE THINGS, SHALL FALL LITTLE BY LITTLE. THIRTY-EIGHT. A TALE THAT IS TOLD AND A DAY THAT IS DONE. INTRODUCTION
MY DEAR FELLOW AUSTRALIANS,
SPECIAL NOTICE
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
A DROUGHT IDYLL
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
SELF-ANALYSIS
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Part of the old Caddagat house was built of slabs, and one of the wooden walls ran along the veranda side of the drawing-room, so the songs aunt Helen and Everard Grey were trying to the piano came as a sweet accompaniment to my congenial task
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
SWEET SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
MY DEAR CHILD,
MY DEAR MOTHER,
MY DEAR SYBYLLA,
CHAPTER THIRTY
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
DEAR MISS MELVYN,
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
DEAR HAROLD,
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
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CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
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Miles Franklin
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Had I done justice to my mother's training I would have honoured my paternal parent in spite of all this, but I am an individual ever doing things I oughtn't at the time I shouldn't.
Coming home, often after midnight, with my drunken father talking maudlin conceited nonsense beside me, I developed curious ideas on the fifth commandment. Those journeys in the spring-cart through the soft faint starlight were conducive to thought. My father, like most men when under the influence of liquor, would allow no one but himself to handle the reins, and he was often so incapable that he would keep turning the horse round and round in the one place. It is a marvel we never met with an accident. I was not nervous, but quite content to take whatever came, and our trusty old horse fulfilled his duty, ever faithfully taking us home along the gum-tree-lined road.
