good-heartedest

Updated: June 27, 2025

Rosy was the brightest, best, good-heartedest, an' most ladylike little girl in the district, an' the heriditry business come on her in Sydney, about a week after she was married to young Brassington. She was only twenty. Here " He passed the flask round. "And what happened?" I asked. "What happened?" he repeated. Then he pulled himself together, as if conscious that he had shown signs of whisky.

Henry Lawson - Children of the Bush