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Naturally, all this did not pass without many a pang in Warburton's sensitive spots. He had set his face like brass, or tried to do so; but in the night season he could all but have shed tears of humiliation, as he tossed on his comfortless pillow.
"I very seldom go to the theatre." The woman meditated, profound gloom on her brows. "You haven't told me," she resumed, shooting a glance of keen distrust, "exactly what your business may be." "I am in the sugar line," responded Will. "Sugar? You wouldn't mind giving me the name of your employers?" The word so rasped on Warburton's sensitive temper that he seemed about to speak angrily.
I depended on none of Warburton's waters, though he had some marked on his chart, since I knew that doubts existed as to the accuracy of his positions, and I preferred to rely upon our own methods of finding water rather than to waste time in hunting for wells that we might not find. For the next few days we were crossing spinifex plains and passing distant hills and tablelands of sandstone.
The holes he had dug in search of water twenty years before were still there, and the records of his journey were of great value as guiding Warburton's movements. His experience of the nature of the country amply confirmed that of the previous explorer. He found the district to the north to be a dreary waste, destitute of food and water.
I there composed the second part of my Essay, which I called Political Discourses, and also my Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals, which is another part of my treatise that I cast anew. Answers by Reverends and Right Reverends came out two or three in a year; and I found, by Dr. Warburton's railing, that the books were beginning to be esteemed in good company.
It is in the same latitude, and agrees with Warburton's description as to the cliffs and sandhills. After sighting this lake we turned West to the ranges, therefore had two lakes existed in this latitude we must have crossed the second, which we did not do.
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He has been under the hands of our cook, and I have been watching them. How I have laughed! Of all droll scenes!" So she had laughed, eh? Warburton's jaws snapped. She had been watching, too? "I rode Pirate this morning " "You rode that horse?" interrupted Mrs. Chadwick. "Yes, and he ran away with me in fine style.
Less than a month after their first meeting, Franks won Rosamund's consent. He was frantic with exultation. Arriving with the news at ten o'clock one night, he shouted and maddened about Warburton's room until finally turned out at two in the morning. His circumstances being what they were, he could not hope for marriage yet awhile; he must work and wait.
Judging from Major Warburton's career as an explorer, he seemed quite unable to judge correctly of the value of country when seen under an adverse season, and it is only one of the many instances of the necessity of a STATION training to adequately fit a man to pronounce definite judgment on the availability or non-availability of country.
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