In Bad Company: And Other StoriesMacmillan, 1901 - 514 páginas |
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Página 268 - twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song. That bower and its music I never forget, But oft when alone, in the bloom of the year, I think — is the nightingale singing there yet ? Are the roses still bright by the calm BENDEMEER?
Página 291 - With head up-raised, and look intent, And eye and ear attentive bent, And locks flung back, and lips apart, Like monument of Grecian art, In listening mood, she seemed to stand The guardian Naiad of the strand.
Página 193 - ard, sir, as a man can't get the trifle of money coming to him, which I've worked 'ard for.' 'It's very hard you won't try and shear decently,' retorts Mr Gordon, by no means conciliated. 'Leave the shed!' Ill-conditioned rascal as the shearer is, he has a mate or travelling-companion in whose breast exists some rough idea of fidelity. He now takes up the dialogue. 'I suppose if Jim's shearing don't suit, mine won't either.
Página 352 - A delightful story, founded upon the lives of children. There is a thread of gold in it upon which are strung many lovely sentiments.
Página 134 - Rode with wet heel and wanton rein. The wild scrub cattle held their own, I lost my mates, my horse fell blown, Night came, I slept here all alone, At sunrise riding on again, I heard yon creek's refrain. Can this be where the hovel stood ? Of old I knew the spot right well ; One post is left of all the wood, Three stones lie where the chimney fell. Rank growth of ferns has well-nigh shut From sight the ruins of the hut. There stands the tree where once I cut The M that interlaced the L — What...
Página 181 - ... paid and provided by the shearers. Payment is generally arranged on the scale of half-a-crown a head weekly from each shearer. For this sum he must provide punctual and effective cooking, paying out of his own pocket as many "marmitons" as may be needful for that end, and to satisfy his tolerably exacting and fastidious employers. In the present case he confers with the storekeeper, Mr de Vere, a young gentleman of aristocratic connexions who is thus gaining an excellent practical knowledge of...
Página 353 - Sir Charles Danvers is really a delightful book. Sir Charles is one of the most fascinating, one of the wittiest figures that advance to greet us from the pages of contemporary fiction. We met him with keen pleasure and parted from him with keen regret.
Página 193 - He said this with an air of studied unconcern, as if he would rather like a dozen more men to knock off work. The two men walk out ; but the epidemic does not spread ; and several take the lesson home and mend their ways accordingly. The weather now was splendid ; not a cloud specked the bright blue sky. The shearers continue to work at the same...
Página 181 - I hope there's not going to be any humbugging about my rations and things! The men are all up in their quarters, and as hungry as free selectors. They've been a-payin...
Página 193 - racing' he works hastily and badly, cuts the skin of his luckless sheep nearly as often as the wool, and leaves wool here and there on them, grievous and exasperating to behold. So sentence of expulsion goes forth fully against him. Having arrayed himself for the road he makes one more effort for a settlement and some money wherewith to pay for board and lodging on the road. Only to have a mad carouse at the nearest township, however; after which he will tell a plausible story of his leaving the...