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And when I got to sleep I hadn't slept a moment, it seemed to me, when I started wide awake to see those infernal hanging boughs with a sort of nightmare idea that the Lachlan hadn't gone, or had come back, and he and Mitchell had hanged themselves sociably Mitchell for sympathy and the sake of mateship.
Yet if those same two dogs were to meet casually outside they might get chummy at once, and be the best of friends, and swear everlasting mateship, and take each other home." She lived in Jones's Alley. She did her own, or rather the family washing, at home too, when she couldn't do it by kind permission, or surreptitiously in connection with that of her employers. She was a haggard woman.
Love filled his soul, that love of boy for girl which knows so little, hopes so much, would not brush the down off for the world, and must become in time a fragrant memory a searing passion a humdrum mateship or, once in many times, vintage full and sweet with sunset colour on the grapes.
Meet me here to-morrow night at nine. While you are thinking, bear always in mind the fact that Peter Cannon is there he pointed in the direction of Stony's tent a living man. Good-night. The reminder was well timed; pity stirred warmly in Jim's heart again, and he offered his hand. 'So long, he said, dropping into the vernacular of mateship.
Warrigal was his good mate, the mother of his dead children, his loving companion by day and night, during long months past. She concentrated in her own person all the best of his kinship with the wild. There was mateship and comradeship between them.
Love filled his soul, that love of boy for girl which knows so little, hopes so much, would not brush the down off for the world, and must become in time a fragrant memory a searing passion a humdrum mateship or, once in many times, vintage full and sweet with sunset colour on the grapes.
"Look here, Brummy," he said frankly, "where the hell do you keep that flamin' stuff o' yourn? I been tryin' to git at it ever since we left West-o'-Sunday." "I know you have, Swampy," said Brummy, affectionately as if he considered that Swampy had done his best in the interests of mateship. "I knowed yer knowed!" exclaimed Swampy, triumphantly. "But where the blazes did yer put it?"
Love filled his soul, that love of boy for girl which knows so little, hopes so much, would not brush the down off for the world, and must become in time a fragrant memory a searing passion a humdrum mateship or, once in many times, vintage full and sweet with sunset colour on the grapes.
When a man drops mateship altogether and takes to "hatting" in the bush, it's a step towards a convenient tree and a couple of saddle-straps buckled together. I had an idea that I, in a measure, took the place of Jack Moonlight's mate about this time. "'Ullo, Jack!" I hailed as he reached the corner of the park.
It was simply chums, owning and sharing everything in common, and without any agreement, written or otherwise. There were many such partnerships involving large sums of money and valuable property which existed only on a complete trust in mates. Among others on the Gilbert and Etheridge, were the mateship of Steel, Hunt and O'Brien.
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