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Updated: June 14, 2025
The British Raj has so far revealed itself to them as a power whose influence is irresistible, and when they find that, with all its traditional omnipotence, it has not succeeded in securing to their countrymen admittedly a peaceable and decent body of settlers who rendered valuable services during the war equal treatment at the hands of a small Dependency, they become disheartened and attribute the failure to the European colonist's influence over the Home Government.
"There," said he, "the sum, that some munificent, but unknown friend of her father has settled on her, will provide her no mean dower for a colonist's wife, when the time comes for her to bring a blessing to some other hearth than ours."
The party is complete, for the Druces arrived yesterday evening in full force, torn from their bucolic life, as Martyn tells them. My poor dear old Margaret! She does indeed look worn and aged, dragged by cares like a colonist's wife, and her husband is quite bald, and as spare as a hermit.
The Doctor hastily turned Dickie over to the two aunts, and hastened forth to the stranger, whose name he well knew as a colonist's son, a favourite and devoted clerical pupil of Norman's. 'Aunt Ethel, said little Richard, with instant recognition; 'mamma said you would be like her, but I don't think you will. 'Nor I, Dickie, but we'll try. And who's that!
"Esperance, my beloved!" he cried. "Father!" exclaimed the rescued lad, clasping his arms about Monte-Cristo's neck. Esperance's garments were quickly restored to him by Fanfar, and when he was clad in them, the party again mounted and started on their return to the colonist's farm.
I, even I, who was born in the colonies, think them very wrong to resist their anointed king, and sovereign prince." "Ah, Wilhelmina," answered the captain, more mildly, "you have a true colonist's admiration of home. But I was old enough, when I left England, to appreciate what I saw and knew, and cannot feel all this provincial admiration."
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