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Updated: May 10, 2025
In the early spring I left school before the term was over, impatient, restless, at odds with the faculty ... Stanton termed it "under a cloud." I had my eyes set on another ideal. Down in the mosquito-infested pine woods of New Jersey Stephen Barton had located.
"Life itself, my dear fellow, life itself!" Cosgrave scarcely answered his companion's comments. He withdrew suddenly into himself, and after that he shirked the subject, understandably enough, for if he had had illusions on her account they must have been effectively shattered. But also he ceased to lie all day on his bed and stare up at the mosquito-infested river of his nightmare.
All day long he lay on his bed in the small spare room Robert had given him and stared up at the white ceiling. There was a crack, running zig-zag from the window to the door, which reminded him, so he said, of a river in Angola, a beastly slimy thing trailing through mosquito-infested swamps and villainous-tangled jungles.
Probably a year or two of the mosquito-infested swamp to which he would soon return to boast of this night's extravaganza. "And you, Monsieur le docteur?" For he had gone on eating and drinking with apparent tranquillity. "Oh, I have nothing nothing but admiration," he said smiling. She shook her head. "Ca ne va pas. The chief guest. Ah, no! That is not kind.
Susan saw visions of bigger triumphs; the others felt that they were going where dramatic talent, not to say genius, would be at least not entirely unappreciated. So the company was at its liveliest next morning as the mosquito-infested willows of the Bethlehem shore slowly dropped away.
In the first three chapters of The Romance of a Station some excellent humour is provided by the young bride's account of her home-coming to the rude mansion on her husbands mosquito-infested island station, and the ludicrous privations she encountered there. There is nothing of the kind more amusing in the whole of Australian fiction.
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