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Updated: June 10, 2025
There settle the account with thy conscience for every past benefit unrequited every past endearment unregarded, of that departed being who can never-never never return to be soothed by thy contrition!
The now familiar corrugated-iron-built town, with its streets inches deep in dust under a blazing sun, its incessant swarms of flies, the clashing of the "stamps" on the mines, and the general "never-never" appearance of the place, impressed us with feelings the reverse of pleasant.
The night was very cold and brilliantly starry, as nights usually are in the Never-Never during the Dry; the camp fires were all around us: dozens of them, grouped in and out among the gundies, and among the fires chatting, gossiping groups of happy-hearted human beings.
'We are a breed of spoilers! thought Jolyon, 'close and greedy; the bloom of life is not safe with us. Let her come to me as she will, when she will, not at all if she will not. Let me be just her stand-by, her perching-place; never-never her cage! She was the chink of beauty in his dream. Was he to pass through the curtains now and reach her?
They're expecting one of the prize-fighting variety down there," and he jerked his head towards the Never-Never. Then he congratulated the Maluka on the size of his missus. "Gimme the little 'uns," he said, nearly wringing my hand off in his approval. "You can't beat 'em for pluck.
"That's the style," he added, when I began to laugh in spite of my disappointment, "We'll soon get you educated up to it." But already the Sanguine Scot had found the bright side of the situation, and reminded us that we were in the Land of Plenty of Time. "There's time enough for everything in the Never-Never," he said. "She'll have many a pleasant ride along the Reach choosing trees for timber.
Full of bright hopes, we rested in that Land of Wait-a-while, speaking of the years to come, when the bush-folk will have conquered the Never-Never and lain it at the feet of great cities; and, waiting and resting, made merry and planned plans, all unconscious of the great shadow that was even then hovering over us. There is little more to tell.
A mystical, elusive beauty. difficult to define, that lay underneath and around, and within the moonlight a beauty of deep nestling shadows, crooning whispers, and soft rustling movement. For a while we dreamed on, and then the Maluka broke the silence. "The wizard of the Never-Never has not forgotten how to weave his spells while I've been south," he said.
Much more likely would they be to thrive wholly on the north side of it. A garden set in a cut between hills that form a natural blowpipe can at best do no more than hold its own, without advancing. But there are some things that belong to the never-never land and may not be done here.
She looked so small and flower like, so absolutely incongruous with her surroundings, that the humour of it all struck McKeith tragically. 'Good Lord! I wonder what your opinion is of this show! Here is the beginning of what is called the Never-Never Country, my dear. Do you want to go back again to Government House?
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