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Updated: June 12, 2025
He would go and have a look at Purdy's sweetheart; would ride back to the diggings by way of Geelong. In a whitewashed parlour of "Beamish's Family Hotel" some few miles north of Geelong, three young women, in voluminous skirts and with their hair looped low over their ears, sat at work.
Between the day Harvey Trueman left the employ of the Paradise Company and the opening of the trial he wins the name of "Miner's Friend." Eight damage suits against the Paradise Coal Company are won for miners by his sagacity and eloquence. He has been able to learn of the effect of the break in the friendship between the Purdy's and himself. Ethel had been prostrated by the event.
He knew all the men and they all knew him had seen him since he was a baby all of them had worked in his father's woods, and two or three of the older ones had taken care of him and his gun when he first began to shoot. His father gave him a gun when he was twelve years old had it made at Purdy's in London, a reduced model of his own.
Purdy's standard of perfection he had studied the advice to young men in the "Sunday Echo." There he learned that no gentleman would think of mentioning love to a young lady until he was in a position to marry her. To-day's pay envelope would hold the exact amount to bring his bank account up to the three imposing figures that he had decided on as the minimum sum to be put away.
Mahony could still see Purdy's plump, red-cheeked English mother, who was as jolly and happy as her boy, hugging the loaf to her bosom while she cut round after round of bread and butter and jam, for two cormorant throats.
I hate Purdy an' you bet he cuts a big circle when he sees me comin'." "Well, he won't no more," answered the Texan dryly. "Purdy's dead." "Dead!" "Yes. He took a pilgrim's girl out on the bench an' the pilgrim got wise to it an' dug out after 'em. Got there just in time an' took a shot at Purdy an' got him." "Land sakes! I'm glad he did!
At a word or touch from Dan, Nance's inflammable nature would have taken fire but Dan, under Mrs. Purdy's influence, was passing through an acute stage of religious conversion, and all desires of the flesh were sternly repressed by that new creed to which he was making such heroic efforts to conform.
It was always a matter of regret to Mahony that, outside the hobnob of daily life, he and his friend had so few interests in common; that Purdy should rest content with the coarse diversions of the ordinary digger. Then, from the black shadows of the Arcade, a woman's form detached itself, and a hand was laid on Purdy's arm. "Shout us a drink, old pal!"
But the moment arrived when they could eat no more, and when even Mrs. Beamish ceased to urge them. Pipes and pouches were produced; Polly and Jinny rose to collect the plates, Tilly and her beau to sit on the edge of the verandah: they could be seen in silhouette against the rising moon, Tilly's head drooping to Purdy's shoulder. Mrs.
And the slight this put on Mary's sterling moral qualities, on all but her physical charms, left the worst taste of any in the mouth. Then, not content with trying to steal her love, Purdy had also sought to poison her mind against him. How that rankled! For until now he had hugged the belief that Purdy's opinion of him was coloured by affection and respect, by the tradition of years.
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