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At nine o'clock that night, when we came out through the gates of the big, noisy station, the children were awaiting us. They had changed, they had grown. Biddy kissed me shyly, and stood staring up at me. "We'll take you out to-morrow and show you how we can ride," said Moreton. Matthew smiled. He stood very close to me, with his hand through my arm. "You're going to stay, father?" he asked.
He had begun to think.. What did he think of me? Biddy clapped her hands, and began to dance across the carpet. "Father's going to read to us, father's going to read to us," she cried, finally clambering up on my knee and snuggling against me. "Where is the place?" I asked. But Maude had left the room. She had gone swiftly and silently. "I'll find it," said Moreton.
Anyone, it seemed to Eddie, would agree to that, unless he happened to agree with Moreton beforehand, and those were just the people who ought to be deported, imprisoned, or even perhaps in rare instances, as examples, strung up to lamp-posts.
It was only after he left London that he began to crawl along. Thanks to slow local lines and a badly fitting cross service it was nearly eleven o'clock before he reached Moreton Station. It did not matter much, because Littimer had said that a carriage should meet him. However, there was no conveyance of any kind outside the station.
Chris countermanded the dog-cart she had ordered and repaired to the library, where Littimer was tying some trout-flies behind a cloud of cigarette smoke. "Thought you had gone to Moreton Wells," he said. "Been at the telephone again? A pretty nice bill I shall have to pay for all those long messages of yours." "Mr. Steel pays this time," Chris said, gaily.
During this time a settlement was formed at Moreton Bay, and subsequently removed to a better site on the Brisbane River. Cunningham, in 1827, left on a trip destined materially to effect the immediate progress of this new colony. Crossing Oxley's track, and entering the unexplored region, after naming the Gwydir and Dumaresque Rivers, he finally emerged on the Darling Downs.
But in 1840 the onward progress of squatting enterprise brought free men with sheep and cattle close to Moreton Bay.
These articles had been packed by her hands; and in one corner, among the underclothes on which she had neatly sewed my initials, lay the new Bible she had bought. "Hugh Moreton Paret, from his Mother. September, 1881." What was it within me that pressed and pressed until I thought I could bear the pain of it no longer?
When Edmund Moreton, about 1780, took the infection disseminated by the development of machinery, and left the farming of his acres to make money, that thing was done which they were all now talking about trying to undo, with their cries of: "Back to the land! Back to peace and sanity in the shade of the elms! Back to the simple and patriarchal state of feeling which old documents disclose.
Finally they were wrecked on Moreton Island, and had lived with the blacks ever since a period of seven months. The latter was never heard of. Next day Finnegan turned up, and both he and Pamphlet, agreeing that at the south end of the bay there was a large river. Messrs. Oxley and Stirling started the following morning in the whale boat to look for it; taking Finnegan with them.
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