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The Bible is a great gold-mine, in which inexhaustible store of yellow metal is mixed with much worthless rubbish that must be purged away by honest criticism before the book becomes really profitable even fit for general circulation. I would rather place in the hands of an innocent girl a copy of the Police Gazette or Sunday Sun than an unexpurgated Bible.
There were yellow flowers on that slope, the same kind she had in her hair the same kind that Apache girl wore hundreds of years ago when she led the padre to the gold-mine. "When I thought of that, an' saw Bonita's eyes, an' then heard the strange crack of rollin' rocks heard them rattle down an' roll an' grow faint I was some out of my head. But not for long.
'Braulard, he continued, quickly, 'lands on the coast of Queensland; he comes to Sydney no work; to Melbourne no work; he goes to Ball'rat work there at a gold-mine.
Heiberg, herself the wittiest of talkers, said that to sit beside Ibsen was to peer into a gold-mine and not catch a glitter from the hidden treasure. But his dumbness was not so bitterly ironical as it was popularly supposed to be. It came largely from a very strange passivity which made definite action unwelcome to him.
The season of fair weather around the north of Australia being yet a long way off, I sailed to other ports in Tasmania, where it is fine the year round, the first of these being Beauty Point, near which are Beaconsfield and the great Tasmania gold-mine, which I visited in turn. I saw much gray, uninteresting rock being hoisted out of the mine there, and hundreds of stamps crushing it into powder.
"Come!" he said, seizing a hatchet and stake, "we are about to discover the gold-mine, and our fortunes;" with a merry laugh. Then both followed in the wake of the sleep walker, and were led to near the center of the valley, which was but a few steps in the rear of the cabin.
Captain Martin thought he discovered a gold-mine near Jamestown, and for a time the council had busied the colonists in digging worthless ore, some of which Newport carried to England. These works hindered others more important to the plantation, and only four acres of land was put in corn during the spring.
In April and May the snow melts, and the precious water flows away where it is not wanted. Were this water stored, it would be made available in the succeeding hot months. The sloping plain between the hills and the town is capable, with irrigation, of great fertility, and the construction of these reservoirs would prove a veritable gold-mine.
Tonight, he suddenly remembered, was the night of the dinner his uncle was to give to some business friends "A Gold-Mine Dinner," his aunt had called it. His cheeks flamed again when he thought that these very men had helped in the Mukton swindle.
When I've found a gold-mine and have bought back the Orange Grove, my sister and me are goin' to live together, like you and Nicholas." "She look like you?" "No; and it's funny, too, 'cause we're twins." "Twins! What's twins?" "Two people born at the same time." "No!" ejaculated Nicholas. "Why, yes, and they always care a heap about each other when they're twins."
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