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"Them say, 'You come back, Queenie," she explained in her broken Queensland English. "'Boupari women love you very much. Boupari women glad you come. You kind; you beautiful! All Boupari men and women very much pleased with you and the gentleman, because you give back him cocoanut and fruit that you pick in the storm, and because you bring down fresh fire from heaven."
And the reserved, harassed man felt his heart go out to the girl, with her quiet shrewdness and undemonstrative affection for her brilliant sister. "Your quiet eyes see a great deal more than one would think, Queenie," he said at last. "I suppose they have seen that there is something something wrong with " He spoke very slowly, and finally he stopped without finishing the sentence.
"And the prize," said Beatrice, "the scholarship!" "I have no heart to try for it now! I would not, if Uncle Geoffrey had not a right to expect it of me. Let me see: if Fred is well by the summer, why then hurrah! Really, Queenie, he might get it all up in no time, clever fellow as he is, and be first after all. Don't you think so?" Queen Bee shook her head.
Their engagement had left him nervous and unfit, and his idea was that, once married, he would present a better appearance before the medical examiners. But after a month of Queenie, Colin was more nervous and unfit than ever. "I can't think," said Adeline, "what that woman does to him. She'll wear him out."
'Come along, Queenie; there's Mrs. Vesey standing at the drawing-room window waving to us. We must not keep her waiting. Can't you leave your doll-people in the boat, dear? Binks will see that the dogs don't worry them to bits. 'Ay, ay! That I will, missy. Bless 'em both, they're picters, they two, as taut and trig as you please.
She slept, dreamlessly at first; then she had a dream that she was just about to embark in a great ship for Australia; that she was going up the gangway, when suddenly behind her came her father and her stepmother, with Avice, Wilfred and Queenie, who all seized her, and began to drag her back. She fought and struggled with them, and from the top of the gangway came Mr.
Brent quickly discovered that Queenie was a young woman of artistic taste with a natural knowledge and appreciation of colour schemes and values; Queenie found out that Brent had a positive horror of the merely modern.
However, Coppinger says you'll not get in." "Coppinger is a bad prophet," said Brent. "I'll be Town Councillor in a fortnight. Lay anybody ten to one!" "Well, they'll do everything they can to keep you out," declared Queenie. "You've got to fight an awful lot of opposition." "Let 'em all come!" retorted Brent.
I'm not asking you to do anything I funk myself." "Oh, shut up. I'm going all right. Not because you've asked me, but because I want to." "If you didn't I should think you'd feel pretty rotten when I'm out with my Field Ambulance," said Queenie. "Damn your Field Ambulance!... No, I didn't mean that, old thing; it's splendid of you to go. But you'd no business to suppose I funked. I may funk.
People's jints bain't made to hold out for ever-'n-ever. Will 'um now? 'No, they won't! joined in Queenie comprehendingly. 'Miss Muffet's jints are giving way, too. Just look, Binks! She held up for inspection an elaborately dressed lady, whose arms and legs were in such a tremulous condition that their total lapse from the body to which they belonged would have been no surprise.
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