A Desert RoseE.P. Dutton, 1913 - 348 pages |
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afternoon amongst antlions asked Betty Aunt Eliza Babs beautiful beetles beneath Betty Curtis Betty's eyes Billings birds breath brolga brown eyes Brownie Bunna Bundra bush cheek colour cried Betty dance David Curtis dear Desert Rose diamonds sparkled Dicky dimple door dress dust eyeglass face faded father feet friends galahs garden gazed geraniums girl grey hair hand head heart horse Hung Lee knew laughed light lived looked Maisie Maisie's mamma Margaret marry Melbourne Miss Curtis mulgas never night once pale Paul Sugden Paul's paused perhaps Podsworth replied Betty riding skirt rose round sand sand-hills seemed shadows silence slowly smile staring stood strange straw-coloured sweet talking Teddy bear tell thing thought tired to-night trees turned verandah voice wait walked watching window woman wonder words Yarra Murtie
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Page 79 - Mirror, mirror, hanging there, Who in all the land's most fair?' and this time it replied: 'You are most fair, my Lady Queen, None fairer in the land, I ween.
Page 51 - The whole ride home was one of enchantment. The haze of grey that had filtered through the trees became interwoven with purple as day died, and in the west the sky was red as a bush fire behind the trees. The true Spirit of the Bush took possession of Betty for the first time, as they cantered without speaking towards the sand-hills of the home paddock.
Page 52 - Betty for the first time, as they cantered without speaking towards the sand-hills of the home paddock. colour rhapsodist. But the glory was short-lived. Even as they gazed the brilliance faded ; the lights withdrew ; the night descended. In a cradling hollow of the hills the homestead roof shone palely in the gloom ; and here and there a light winked from a window.
Page 295 - Curtis' brain, though he did not betray it by so much as the flicker of an eyelid.
Page 333 - He sometimes discarded his stick and walked with his hands behind his back, his head bent, his eyes on the ground.
Page 30 - I wanted to cry and laugh at the same time, I was so excited.
Page 306 - ... you not know what indulgences are, Miss Mortimer?" inquired little Claire, as soon as Lydia was gone. Emily was silent, and she continued, " What a strange religion yours must be ! My confessor says it is a very bad one, and that no heretic can be saved. But I hope you will be a Catholic at last, for you are so good and kind, and I love you so much ! and my sister and I say a pater noster and an ave Maria, every night and morning, for your conversion.
Page 212 - how mad, and bad, and sad it was, and yet, alas ! how sweet...
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