groping-in-the-dark

Updated: June 26, 2025

But sometimes when she got outside her everyday life on this selection she spoke in a sort of in a sort of lost groping-in-the-dark kind of voice. She didn't talk much this time just spoke in a mechanical way of the drought, and the hard times, 'an' butter 'n' eggs bein' down, an' her husban' an' eldest son bein' away, an' that makin' it so hard for her. I don't know how many children she had.

Henry Lawson - Joe Wilson and His Mates