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Updated: June 26, 2025
Hilary went on querulously, "I'm asking Peter to do a simple thing to use his friendship with the Urquharts to help me out of this mess. If you don't want to see Lord Evelyn, Peter, you can go to Denis. He's a friend of yours; he's he's your kind of step-brother. You can easily persuade him to get the thing hushed up. You've always pretended that he was a friend of yours.
And the tale was already spreading far and wide to the Urquharts at Five Creeks, to Mr Thornycroft at Bundaboo, to Mr Goldsworthy and his parishioners, to the editor of the local paper so that soon the family friends were arriving, to press Mary's hand and condole with her to show her how she had risen in the world, as a woman in the eyes of all.
Certainly the Knight of Cromartie did not, and fully believing Posterity would feel an interest in himself unaccorded to any one of his contemporaries, he kindly and prudently appended the pedigree of the family of Urquharts, preserving every step from Adam to himself.
This very summer, for instance, a charming young lady from Sydney had stayed with the Urquharts; and, as long as her visit lasted, they had seen little or nothing of Purdy. Whenever he got off duty he was at Yarangobilly. As it happened, however, Mr. Urquhart himself had been so assiduous in taking his guest about that Purdy had had small chance of making an impression.
They seemed to hear the rotten flood-gates, shut so long ago, creak on their rusty hinges. "Heard anything of the Urquharts lately?" "Yes. Alice was married the other day to a widower with fourteen children. She has not been very happy at home, I fear, with Harold's wife. Harold has the place now, you know. Jim gave it up to him when he married." "When who married?" "Harold." "What's Jim doing?"
My husband is really Irish. He might say 'Begorra' at any minute. The Urquharts are a mixed lot. Jimmy says we're Eurasians when he's cross with us which means with himself. I suppose we were border thieves once, like the Turnbulls and Pringles. But James I planted us in Ireland, and there have been James Urquharts ever since. I don't know why that seems satisfactory, but it does."
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