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While he is seeing his people at Bundaboo, you can camp with me, like old times." At the last moment Rose broke down, and wept upon the breast of her favourite sister in the act of bidding her goodbye perhaps because Frances chanced to be absent at the time.
There'll be one to each girl, and three over. The Simpsons alone have promised to bring six." The Simpsons were new people at Bundaboo, which Mr Thornycroft had let. He now lived at Redford in a third part of the great house, the other two-thirds being closed. He was not coming to the ball, Alice said. "Getting too old for balls."
Oh, on the whole if you ask me I'd say, stick to him." Alice's voice was sad, and she sighed inwardly. "I'm going to stick to him," said Rose. "Well, you may count on me. I'll get them all asked here for a picnic, and we'll go over to Bundaboo to invite them tomorrow. Mrs Simpson said he was only with her for a few days." "You darling!"
And Alice Urquhart, who is in town, and one of his cousins from Bundaboo quite respectable and above-board, you see, only very quiet, so as not to trouble you and the girls and poor dear Bennet Goldsworthy more than we can help " "Not trouble us!" broke in Deb, her face, that had paled a moment ago, flaming scarlet.
Right willingly he went, and they sailed away together like the wind, and were lost to view. Yes, this was Dalzell's hour. She knew nothing of the brave deeds of sailor-men common and constant as eating and drinking, and performed to no audience and for no reward. The Shetlands pattered along at a great rate, but did not come up with the riders until they were nearly at Bundaboo.
And the tale was already spreading far and wide to the Urquharts at Five Creeks, to Mr Thornycroft at Bundaboo, to Mr Goldsworthy and his parishioners, to the editor of the local paper so that soon the family friends were arriving, to press Mary's hand and condole with her to show her how she had risen in the world, as a woman in the eyes of all.
In their white frocks and flowers, the friends went to the drawing-room, and in the thick of the arrivals Jim brought up from the bachelors' quarters the six Bundaboo young men. Mrs Simpson introduced them to Mrs Urquhart and her bevy of assistant hostesses. "Mr Leader Mr Henry Leader down from Queensland; Mr Parkinson English globe-trotter; my two sons, whom you know; my nephew, Mr Breen."
"Where did you get this?" she asked, fondling it, for she loved fine fabrics. "Never mind," said he. "Put it on." "I am suspicious of these shawls and fallals that Bundaboo seems full of. Who is the hidden lady?" He only smiled at her. "Ah, godpapa, you spoil me!" She drew the wrap about her, and he assisted to adjust it, with gentle skill. Then he turned abruptly to Carey, as to a groom.
John, at business with his father, and Pennycuick, learning station management with the Simpsons at Bundaboo, had the fresh and cleanly appearance of all Rose's children; in physical matters they were as clean as they looked. Bob did not look unclean, but with all his excessive smartness, he looked unfresh. That look, and the thing it meant, were his father's legacy to him.
"I don't know about what I ought to have, but I know that if you persist in throwing Redford away, I shall take it." He smiled at her angry perturbation. "If I find I haven't enough money to outbid everybody but I think I have I can sell Bundaboo. If you won't have Redford, I will yes, and every stick and stone that belongs to it."
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