tailieunhanh - Bengala, and The Convict Laundress by Mary Theresa Vidal

yet his features were good, his figure powerful and well made, though the air with which his small cabbage-tree hat was pushed on one side, and his whole bearing, was almost reckless. The sun was getting low, and already the white fungi were beginning to glow on the fallen trees like gigantic glow-worms, casting a pale white light around them | Bengala and The Convict Laundress Mary Theresa Vidal DODO I WI PRESS Bengala Volume I. CHAPTER I. THE DISTRICT The sun had reached the horizon and the fringe of gum-trees on the edge of the hill was thrown out in strong relief by the bright intense light behind while the rest of the wooded country lay in shade. The evening breeze was faintly rising and stirred the leaves of bignonias and cedar-trees in front of a low steep-roofed cottage in the verandah of which a lady sat alternately patting a huge kangaroo dog and speaking to a man who stood without the gate which separated the verandah from the yard. Really my good man it is no use for you to stay I have told you that my brother that Mr. Herbert is not at home. He has been up the country. They say he ll be back to-night the man answered in a somewhat dogged and surly tone. Probably so very probably but of course he cannot be expected to attend to you. Can t you say what you want You are one of Mr. Lang s men I think. I am my lady and a half-smile of no very pleasant meaning changed his countenance for an instant. Well as it seems I can t get a hearing to night maybe you ll be pleased to tell the gentleman that Lynch wants a word with him badly. He ll attend to me tomorrow I ll warrant. Touching his hat he turned away. The lady rose too and did her best to watch him off the premises for she had lived long enough among convicts she said not to trust them. At the men s huts a short way from the house the man Lynch lingered to light his pipe.

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