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Kyley, whose assumed anger, however, suddenly gave place to a broad grin as they passed from sight, and she winked a mischievous aside at the bearded digger. 'My oath, but that's a beautiful beard you have, she said. 'I've a mind to see how it would suit me. 'Get a doctor to Done as quickly as you can.
'No, no, she said, 'leave it to me leave it all to me! I must work I must be busy! If I stopped now my heart would break. Look at him! 'My God! it is very like death, whispered Mrs. Kyley. It was not easy to get a doctor in Ballarat that day. Ben was entrusted with the mission, and warned to proceed cautiously. He found the doctors in urgent demand.
'I came wishing to. 'You ruffian! she said aloud; 'and you pretending you cared a copper dump about Mother Kyley. She pushed him towards Aurora, and rolled from the tent with one of her great gusts of laughter. 'I'm off, Joy! said Done. She turned and looked at him. She was in one of her quiet humours. If she had felt much grief, it had left little impression upon her.
Kyley couldn't be expected to abandon her business for the sake of a husband, seeing that it was so much easier to set up another husband than another establishment. But the most important branch of the business, that of sly grog-selling, made a man who could handle the riotous and evil-disposed quite essential.
'Never mind me, Mrs. Ben; I'm all right. Where's Joy? 'She's gone for a bit of a walk in the sun. 'Could I find her? 'Deuce take your impatience! This isn't flattering to me! 'Harry will comfort you. I want Aurora, and I want her badly. If she doesn't want me, you'd better have left me to die when I had the good chance down there at Eureka, Mary Kyley. 'That's good to hear.
On this broke a great bovine roar of merriment from the opulent lungs of Mrs. Ben Kyley, who stood foremost in the ring surrounding McPhee, the sergeant, and the girl, her strong white hands, suspiciously pipeclayed, supporting her shaking sides.
Ryder gave a few directions as to the treatment of the patient and then turned and sauntered away, carrying the loaf under his arm. Mary reentered the tent, and found Aurora, very pale but apparently quite calm, busying herself about the patient. She had removed all the blood articles, and they lay in a heap on the floor. These Mrs. Kyley would have gathered up, but the girl interfered.
But Aurora threw aside her domestic mood with her apron, and reappeared as the enemy of reflection and repose. Throned on her gin-case, where the ruddy light of the wood-fire glowed upon her, she chattered in her delectable brogue for an hour or more, the picture of animation. Then came Mary Kyley storming upon the scene.
Somebody I know? Aurora clutched Mary Kyley's arm, and stared into her face with a sudden new fear. 'Yes, deary, somebody you know. It's Jim! Mary Kyley nodded her bead, and mopped her tears. 'Yes, it's Jimmy Done. Aurora paled to her eyes, her lips tightened to thin purple lines across her white teeth, and she fought with Mary for a moment, seeking to make her way into the tent; but Mrs.
Kyley slipped out again, quite reassured. 'It would be better, perhaps, if I held his head, said Aurora. 'Yes, answered Ryder shortly. She seated herself on the bed, and took Done's head between her hands, raising it, and Ryder continued his work rapidly.
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