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We are all working hard for you, and hope to soon see you in possession of your ship, and the Mahina's white wings spread for Sydney." This letter was brought to Mrs. Tracey by a Tebuan native, who had received it from one of Barry's men at the usual rendezvous. She opened it with an exclamation of pleasure and read it through.
'O, death! we cry, 'where is thy sting? and once more the question answers itself. 'O Death, where is thy sting? 'I am the Life! 'O Grave, where is thy victory? 'I am the Resurrection! The Life and the Resurrection! 'I am the Resurrection and the Life! The text that he saw in every sight, and heard in every sound, made all the difference to Sydney Carton.
A few days more, and I became entitled to my ticket of leave. For this indulgence I applied when the time came, and it was immediately granted me for one year. On obtaining my ticket I proceeded to Sydney, as the most likely place to fall in with some employment. On this subject, however, I felt much at a loss; for not having been bred to any mechanical trade, I could do nothing in that way.
The familiar towers and spires of Sydney reappeared, silhouetted against the amber rim of night; the hills, robbed of their pearly glamour, huddled beneath a belt of leaden cloud; the harbour waters lay fiat and grey like a sheet of polished metal; light clouds were pacing in from the sea. They stared across the water, silent and thoughtful, touched for a moment with the glamour of a dream.
Where the Melbourne University now stands, a few miserable Australian blacks would meet and hold a corroboree; but, except it might be a refugee bush-ranger from Sydney, there was not a white man in all Victoria.
He had not been two days on shore in Sydney, when, meeting with some of his countrymen, he threw off his European clothing, and started for the bush, whence there was no getting him back. Like most savages, the natives are seldom if ever known to express surprise or astonishment under any circumstances.
They had reached the building in which Sydney had his office. "Yes, this is the place," replied Rex slowly. He was thinking how dreadful it would be to present himself before Syd with this crowd at his heels. "I don't know whether he's in or not," he added. "Will you mind going up and finding out, Scott?" "Of course I won't. I know just where the room is and I'll bring him down in a jiffy."
"I wish I had never come back to this hell-ship, at Brisbane!" "I wish I had never come aboard at all at Sydney!" At such times, and at other odd ends of leisure, I brought my Westcott and Hort's Greek New Testament from my bunk, and with the nasty smell of sheep close-by, but unheeded through custom I studied with greater pleasure than I ever did before or since.
Barry came down and he and the naval officer and Mrs. Tracey drank a glass of champagne together, and exchanged various promises to meet again when the Reynard came to Sydney at the end of her cruise. "This meeting with you, Mrs.
The expedition returned to Sydney, without any splendid discovery to gild its proceedings; and the labours and dangers it had encountered were considered as nothing more than ordinary occurrences. If I myself had entertained hopes that my researches would have benefited the colony, I was wholly disappointed.
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