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Updated: May 29, 2025
I had to hire two stray chaps, we're so short-handed. He went down the steps to the outer paling. Still she made no response, though now she turned and watched him vault into the saddle. She also saw his face lighten at sight of Mrs Hensor's boy with the great pawpaw apple. Tommy Hensor was a favourite with the Boss. 'Bless you, boy, it's as big as yourself.
From the first moment, Lady Bridget had disliked Mrs Hensor. But she had felt a vague attraction towards the little yellow-headed, blue-eyed boy clinging to Mrs Hensor's skirts. As for any uneasiness on the score of Steadbolt's insolent insinuations, she had absolutely dismissed that from her mind. Yes that bridal homecoming how strange it had seemed! How rough everything was!
He is another of Mrs Hensor's rejected suitors. That speaks for itself. 'Strange that Mrs Hensor should reject so many suitors without apparent reason, said Maule. Bridget did not seem able to bear any more. Her head drooped upon her hands, her shoulders heaved convulsively. 'I don't know what to do I am alone. It's an insult to talk to me in this way.
'Has he told you, then, why he keeps on his station that insolent woman and her yellow-haired blue-eyed boy? Bridget started visibly. He saw that his shaft had struck the mark. But she answered calmly: 'I don't know what you want to imply. I thought you knew that Mrs Hensor's husband was killed on one of Colin's expeditions, and that he looked after her and her boy on that account.
To Lady Bridget the day passed, and all the seemingly distant noises of it, like a phantasmagoria of vision, sound, impressions the echoes of station activity; the Chinamen's pidgin English as they weeded the front garden; Tommy Hensor's voice when he brought the cook a nestful of eggs some vagrant hen had laid in the grass-tussocks, the men going forth with the tailing-mob and at intervals the scorching recollection of that hinted scandal concerning Colin and Mrs Hensor of which Maule had told her.... Horrible... unbelievable... and yet....
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