The Thorn in the Flesh

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Paul Wenz. The Thorn in the Flesh

INTRODUCTION. By Helen Garner

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Paul Wenz (1869-1939) arrived in Australia in 1892 and worked as a grazier at ‘Nanima’ in the Forbes district from 1898, where he wrote several popular novels and many short stories of Australian bush life published in Paris. His only work published in English was Diary of a New Chum (ETT Imprint 1990). Most of his books are available in French through the publishers La Petite Maison. His most recent book in English is Their Father’s Land: For King and Empire, translated by Marie Ramsland (ETT Imprint 2018).

Helen Garner (born Melbourne 1942) lived in Paris in the late 70s, and has published extensively around the world. Her Collected Stories were published in 1998, and The First Stone published in a French language edition.

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Susie proffered no stronger greeting than her ordinary “good day”; one might even have detected a nuance of sulkiness, of feigned indifference in all her dealings with John. Tom and Sam confessed to him in the smoking-room that Susie had been very quiet during his absence: they had even feared seeing her leave Tilfara, which was perhaps too dull a place for her.

After a few days, however, the housekeeper had regained her usual spirits and gave no appearance of being ready to hand in her notice. She continued to ride on Sundays. Ned would accompany her, envied by the other men on the station, who hadn’t yet been favoured with so much as a smile from the “princess”, as they called her. Ned was obviously proud of the distinction, for be ventured so far one day as to confide in her.

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