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Even Mr Adams, plain, matter-of-fact, simple, and unsympathetic sailor as he was, without a particle of poetry or imagination about him, could not but gaze with admiration at the glory of God's handiwork, as he noticed the grand panorama of change that marked the progress from darkness to light, from night to day!
Months afterward, when the two Mondunbarra bullocks had been swapped-away into a team from the Sydney side, I camped one night with Baxter and Donovan, who discussed, in the most matter-of-fact way, their own tranquil appropriation of the beasts. Each of these useful scoundrels had the answer of a good conscience touching the transaction.
"A modest request, after all you've done for me!" Her fingers placed it in the rented coat. "There!" she murmured in a matter-of-fact tone, stepping back. His face, turned to the light, appeared paler; his eyes looked studiously beyond her. "It will be jolly on the steamer, won't it?" she went on. "Jolly?
"Sixteen oxen and twenty casks of plum brandy," was the matter-of-fact reply. "If my arm were only long enough, wouldn't I box your ears!" exclaimed Aaron, by way of giving vent to his admiration. "They wished to do something of the sort to me up yonder, too, when they heard my offer," returned the other.
You see I forgive you, or we should not be here now talking." She raised her parasol as though about to rise. "We must go. My uncle is waiting for me, and if you care to, you may come with me and see him before we start for Rome." She did not rise; but the matter-of-fact tone in which she made the threat chilled me, and for a moment I stood silent, looking down at the black figure.
"So there's an end of that," he emphasized, as the resolve took form to tell Lady Charlotte flatly that his father was ruined, and that the son, therefore, renounced his particular hope and aspiration. "She will say, in the most matter-of-fact way in the world, 'Oh, very well, that quite alters the case," said Wilfrid aloud, with the smallest infusion of bitterness.
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Here he and his partner had in a few months of strenuous labor taken from the narrow and unimportant rivulet more wealth than most could save in a lifetime of patient and thrifty toil. Yes, fortune had been kind. And it all had been so easy, so simple, so unagitating, so matter-of-fact! The hillside now looked like any other hillside, innocent as a woman's eyes, yet covering how much!
He shook his head doubtingly, whenever it was mentioned, for, as I have told you, he was a practical, matter-of-fact man. "There was a pleasant party at the Professor's that night. All the children of the neighborhood were there, and among them the Professor's clever son, Rupert, as they called him, a thin little chap, about as tall as Bobby there, and as fair and delicate as Flora by my side.
His conduct in deluding Joe Rogers in the face of so terrible a danger reflected credit upon Waddy, and Waddy gratefully responded by being heartily proud of him. A crowd marched to Mrs. Haddon's back fence expressly to cheer Dick; and cheer him they did, in a solemn, matter-of-fact way, like a people performing a high public duty.
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