Babes in the Bush
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Rolf Boldrewood. Babes in the Bush
CHAPTER I ‘FRESH FIELDS AND PASTURES NEW’
CHAPTER II. THE FIRST CAMP
CHAPTER III. THE NEW HOME
CHAPTER IV. MR HENRY O’DESMOND OF BADAJOS
CHAPTER V ‘CALLED ON BY THE COUNTY’
CHAPTER VI. AN AUSTRALIAN YEOMAN
CHAPTER VII. TOM GLENDINNING, STOCK-RIDER
CHAPTER VIII. MR. WILLIAM ROCKLEY OF YASS
CHAPTER IX. HUBERT WARLEIGH, YR., OF WARBROK
CHAPTER X. A PROVINCIAL CARNIVAL
CHAPTER XI. MR. BOB CLARKE SCHOOLS KING OF THE VALLEY
CHAPTER XII. STEEPLECHASE DAY
CHAPTER XIII. MISS VERA FANE OF BLACK MOUNTAIN
CHAPTER XIV. THE DUEL
CHAPTER XV. THE LIFE STORY OF TOM GLENDINNING
CHAPTER XVI ‘SO WE’LL ALL GO A-HUNTING TO-DAY’
CHAPTER XVII. THE FIRST MEET OF THE LAKE WILLIAM HUNT CLUB
CHAPTER XVIII. THE MAJOR DISCOVERS HIS RELATIVE
CHAPTER XIX. BLACK THURSDAY
CHAPTER XX. AN UNEXPECTED DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER XXI. A GREEN HAND
CHAPTER XXII. INJUN SIGN
CHAPTER XXIII. THE BATTLE OF ROCKY CREEK
CHAPTER XXIV. GYP’S LAND
CHAPTER XXV. BOB CLARKE ONCE MORE WINS ON THE POST
CHAPTER XXVI. THE RETURN FROM PALESTINE
CHAPTER XXVII. THE DUEL IN THE SNOW
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Whatever may be the loss or injury inseparable from misfortune, no one of experience denies that the pain is lightened when the blow has fallen. The shuddering terror, the harrowing doubts, which precede an operation, far outrun the torture of the knife. Worse a thousandfold to endure than actual misery, poverty and disgrace, is the dull sense of impending doom, the daily anxiety, the secret dread, the formless, unhasting, unsparing terror, which each day brings nearer to the victim.
Howard Effingham had, for weeks past, suffered the torments of the lost. An unwise concealment of the coming ruin which his reserved temperament forbade him to announce, had stretched him upon the rack. The acute agony was now past, and he felt unspeakably relieved as, with increasing completeness, the preparations for departure were accomplished.
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‘There could not be a better scheme,’ said Wilfred exultingly. ‘My dear sir, you are a second father to us. How long do you think it will take us to get to Warbrok altogether?’
‘You will have to make up your minds to ten or twelve days’ travelling, I am afraid – say, twenty miles a day. I really believe you will not find it tedious, but, as with your water journey, get quite to like it. Besides, there is one grand advantage, as far as the young ladies are concerned.’
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