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He did a store cattle trade with the far-out squatters that were stocking up new country in Queensland, and it paid him very well, as nearly everything did that he touched. We were to find our own horses and be paid so much a week three pounds, I think and so on.
With each four men went a lady to attend to all their wants. Like a mother she hovered over us and you could see her heart was bursting with love for us far-out sons of empire.
The tide is low, and seems to have thrown them together high on the bare shore. A gull comes sweeping by their heads and flouts them. There was a golden surface on the brown cliffs but now, and behold they are only damp earth. A taunting roar comes from the sea, and the far-out rollers mount upon one another, to look at the entrapped impostors, and to join in impish and exultant gambols.
After he had towed us I don't know how far-out of sight of the ship at any rate, he suddenly stopped, and we pulled up and gave him some tremendous digs with the lances, until he spouted jets of blood, and we made sure of him, when, all at once, down he went head foremost like a cannon-ball, and took all the line out of both boats, so we had to cut, and he never came up again.
It was a regular outside bush township, and though the distance oughtn't to have much to say to people's honesty, you'll mostly find that these far-out back-of-beyond places have got men and women to match 'em. Except the squatters and overseers, the other people's mostly a shady lot. Some's run away from places that were too hot to hold 'em.
And as for your Grace's Chamberlain well, Simon MacTaggart has done very well hitherto on his own works and merits." "You may find, for all that," says his Grace, "that they were all summed up in a few words 'he was a far-out cousin to the Duke. Sic itur ad astra." At that Simon put on his hat and laughed with an eerie and unpleasant stridency. He never said another word, but left the room.
Miss Somerville and her comrade knew the type in its fullest development, for both grew up in far-out Atlantic-bordering regions Carbery of West Cork, Connemara of West Galway where the countryside knew scarcely "any inhabitants but the gentry and their dependents.
So far as disgust is concerned, you'd have to see one of the really far-out ones. The gleam in an ordinarily fishlike eye when he recounts the time you killed three men in hand-to-hand combat, equipped only with an entrenching tool, when they came at you with bayonets. The trace of spittle, running down from the side of his mouth." "And this buff of yours.
He could not help seeing that Chicago was a growing city, and that land values must rise. What was now far-out prairie property would soon, in the course of a few years, be well built-up suburban residence territory. Scarcely any land that could be purchased now would fall in value. It might drag in sales or increase, but it couldn't fall. Ross convinced him of this.
The Subway, plunging through unvaried darkness, levitated them from the district of dark loft-buildings and theater-bound taxicabs to a far-out Broadway, softened with trees and brightened with small apartment-houses and little shops. They could see a great feathery space of vernal darkness down over the Hudson at the end of a street.
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