Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished: A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure
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Robert Michael Ballantyne. Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished: A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure
Chapter One. An Accident and some of its Curious Results
Chapter Two. The Irresistible Power of Love
Chapter Three. Poverty Manages to Board out her Infant for Nothing
Chapter Four. Samuel Twitter astonishes Mrs Twitter and her Friends
Chapter Five. Treats still further of Riches, Poverty, Babies, and Police
Chapter Six. Wealth pays a Visit to Poverty
Chapter Seven. Bicycling and its Occasional Results
Chapter Eight. A Great and Memorable Day
Chapter Nine. How the Poor are Succoured
Chapter Ten. Balls, Bobby, Sir Richard, and Giles appear on the Stage
Chapter Eleven. Sir Richard and Mr Brisbane discuss, and Di listens
Chapter Twelve. Sammy Twitter’s Fall
Chapter Thirteen. Tells of some Curious and Vigorous Peculiarities of the Lower Orders
Chapter Fourteen. Number 666 Off Duty
Chapter Fifteen. Mrs Frog sinks Deeper and Deeper
Chapter Sixteen. Sir Richard visits the Beehive, and sees many Surprising Things
Chapter Seventeen. Things become too hot for the Twitter Family
Chapter Eighteen. The Ocean and the New World
Chapter Nineteen. At Home in Canada
Chapter Twenty. Occupations at Brankly Farm
Chapter Twenty One. Treats of Altered Circumstances and Blue-Ribbonism
Chapter Twenty Two. Ned Frog’s Experiences and Sammy Twitter’s Woes
Chapter Twenty Three. Hopes revive
Chapter Twenty Four. The Returning Prodigal
Chapter Twenty Five. Canada again—and Surprising News
Chapter Twenty Six. Happy Meetings
Chapter Twenty Seven. A Strange Visit and its Results
Chapter Twenty Eight. The Great Change
Chapter Twenty Nine. Home Again
Chapter Thirty. The New Home
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Need we remark that there was a great deal of embracing on the part of Di and her nurse when the former returned home? The child was an affectionate creature as well as passionate. The nurse, Mrs Screwbury, was also affectionate without being passionate. Poor Diana had never known a mother’s love or care; but good, steady, stout Mrs Screwbury did what in her lay to fill the place of mother.
Sir Richard filled the place of father pretty much as a lamp-post might have done had it owned a child. He illuminated her to some extent—explained things in general, stiffly, and shed a feeble ray around himself; but his light did not extend far. He was proud of her, however, and very fond of her—when good. When not good, he was—or rather had been—in the habit of dismissing her to the nursery.
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“Why, mother,” exclaimed Hetty, who was so busy with Bobby’s supper, and, withal, so accustomed to the woman’s looks of hopeless misery that she had failed to observe anything unusual until her attention was thus called to her, “what ever have you done with the baby?”
“Ah—you may well ask that,” growled Ned.
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