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newsy reproach


From: Job Zuniga
Subject: newsy reproach
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 12:19:19 +0300

HENRY, WHO HAS ALWAYS BEEN SO COLD AND STERN! Though how I shall ever manage to leave my dear papeh, I do not know. However, in the end he allowed himself tobe persuaded; and off they went, in company. A musical party at the Timms-Kellys tempted even Mahony forth. Why, I yearn,dearest, simply yearn to show them a mothers love. But I dont think weought to be discussing her. For neither did the little ones take to her. I haveneeded neither to diet myself for a gouty constitution, nor to coddlemyself in flannel. Then after all it must beJohns health that was causing him anxiety. THEY NEVER WANTED ME WHEN I WAS AMONGTHEM; WHY ON EARTH SHOULD THEY MISS ME NOW? HE ADMITTED HE WAS AT HIS WITS END TOKNOW WHAT TO DO WITH HER. I should hate her to thinkwe didnt consider her good enough to introduce to our friends. Ontwo occasions afterwards, I found him there. Much less consideration was shown him personally than in the oldBallarat days. Marys next letter bore the heading Yarangobilly, and ran:YOU SEE WHERE I AM NOW. I THINK ITS TIME I CAME HOME TOLOOK AFTER YOU. But its another story, eh, when John the Great comes in question? For my part I cannot admit tofeeling a day older than I did ten years back. At forty-six a man is in the prime of hislife! Painters andpaperhangers were already hard at work. All my life, love, I have preferred thecompany of ELDERLY gentlemen. AND I DO FEEL SO GLAD I WENTAND DIDNT LET MYSELF BE PERSUADED NOT TO. Even more disturbing was the visit of Mrs. But shereally is a dear, warm-hearted creature. Painters andpaperhangers were already hard at work. There was noescape from her strident voice, her empty, noisy laugh. I THINK ITS TIME I CAME HOME TOLOOK AFTER YOU. Your friend Lizzie is a veritable Leyden jar. Her discomfiture showed in the way she now flared up. On the occasion of last seeing Purdy,they had both been giddy with excitement. When Emmy shepherded the little girls to their nursery, he turned toJohn. Theexcitement of the wedding, new frocks, new dolls, helped them over thebreak. Much less consideration was shown him personally than in the oldBallarat days. STILL, WILLY HAS HAD SO MANY FANCIES IN HIS DAY, ITHINK LOUISA NEEDNT TAKE THIS ONE TOO SERIOUSLY. Surely the wordimplies somebody with whom one has at least HALF an idea in common? Before a week wasout, Mahony swore he would prefer fewer virtues and more tact. But thechange in his manner was even more striking. The grass has been green overthat for what seems like half a century. Nor yet the doctrine of the Fall of a perfectman from grace. In his attire he grew almost as dapper as ofold.

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