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Lucy was at the piano, providing an accompaniment, and the Sydneyside girl was singing an ardent love song. Yarra paused before Ryder with a tray, on which was a cool drink. In the act of lifting the glass the latter noticed that a uniformed trooper had suddenly appeared in the doorway. A turn of the eye satisfied him that there was another at the French window.
'Enough to gild that dome on his back! 'And a girl had not many opportunities of picking and choosing in the Bush here ten years ago. 'Besides, the sex is so compassionate, Mr. Cargill; the ladies love us for our imperfections. 'Have you been dearly loved, Mr. Ryder? asked an impudent Sydneyside girl of nineteen. 'No, no! laughed Ryder; 'my opportunities have neglected me terribly!
Maddie and Bella Barnes and Miss Falkland in the same novel, Kate Lawless in Nevermore, and Possie Barker in A Sydneyside Saxon, are also Antipodeans, but are only lightly sketched. Boldrewood claims that in his writings he has always upheld the Australian character. It is a fact that he has incidentally done this to a considerable extent, but not by any notable portraiture.
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