Memoirs of a chequered life, 第 3 卷1862 |
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appeared asked berth better blankets Blois's board the Ellen bottle brandy breakfast BRICKMAKING brother called camped Carroll Carson Collingwood commenced convicts Dandenong delight dinner dress Edward Ellen Jane fearful feeling felt flock Floss Francis Fullerton Gallacher Geelong gentleman give glass ground half hand Harry Harry Morton Hell's Hole Henry Morton Hinton horse hour hundred husband hut-keeper Kilmore knew look Major Blois Mary Carpenter master mate Melbourne miles minutes Miss Carpenter months morning never Nicholas night o'clock old Jack once pannikin passed Patrick Maloney Pentridge pounds Pretty Sally's Hill prisoner replied Richmond bridge rocky water holes Sacramento Sanday Sandridge sheep shep shepherd shillings sleep spot squatter stock whip Stretton supper Sweetvale tell tent thanked thirst thought told tree Van Diemen's Land walked warder whilst wife wish young Blois
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第 iii 頁 - That curse shall be Forgiveness. — Have I not — Hear me, my mother Earth! behold it, Heaven! Have I not had to wrestle with my lot? Have I not suffer'd things to be forgiven? Have I not had my brain sear'd, my heart riven, Hopes sapp'd, name blighted, Life's life lied away? And only not to desperation driven, Because not altogether of such clay As rots into the souls of those whom I survey.
第 329 頁 - ... but as if his small strength of will had expended itself in his early struggles, he was never able to permanently lift himself above the mean temptations which surrounded him. There is a melancholy appropriateness in Prince's lines, which Mr. Lithgow has placed on the title page of the life ; —
第 48 頁 - Existence may be borne, and the deep root Of life and sufferance make its firm abode In bare and desolated bosoms : mute The camel labours with the heaviest load, And the wolf dies in silence, — not...
第 6 頁 - ... everything away, and suffered her to drift down the river, merely dipping our oars now and then to keep her head straight In rounding a wellwooded point, we came upon at least twenty pelicans. The huge birds were standing all together on an island of mud, and suffered us to come within twenty yards of them. We had no gun with us, and if we had, it would have been only a piece of barbarous cruelty to kill any of them, as we could not have put a foot upon that treacherous mud. We continued to drift...
第 13 頁 - we shall make no hand of this fishing game, and you must allow that it is uncommon cold work. Hang me ! if I would not rather break stones at ten shillings the square yard. Then again there's no fun in it ; you cannot see what you are about ; you are wet from the beginning of the business to the end of it; and to crown all, there's no profit. Charlie, we must cut it.
第 2 頁 - ... thirsty, from having our mouths filled with dust, we entered the hut to beg a pannikin of water. The owner of the log-cabin was a fisherman ; that is to say, he was the possessor of a seinenet and a whale-boat. In the course of conversation, we learnt from him that he plied his occupation at night-tirne, in the bay, from eight to ten miles distant from where we then were.
第 11 頁 - ... slight disposition to flinch. That night, as soon as the sun went down, we were again on the water: about the same success attended us, but with all my entreaties they would only make three hauls. " It is so deuced dark and cold,
第 10 頁 - ... on, all were at liberty to amuse themselves as it suited them, so long as one remained to take care of the property. Now idleness invariably begets mischief: I do not mean to insinuate that I was one whit better than the rest of my companions ; but having nothing to do we used to wander to...
第 26 頁 - I guess you are one of those London chaps that can't get a berth at a bank or a shop in Melbourne: there are hundreds like you. Poor devils ! how I pity them, with their dirty white shirts, and cleaner hands.