ghosts in Tales of Australian Life
nd recall, beyond any possibility of casting off the slur — thus always. For what do you take me, Clifden? Tell me that.** She held out her hands, as though putting it to him with all her supplication and loving tenderness. He put his broad shaking hand on the table of the Marie Denton. 153 summer-…
- Record ID
- 2,001
- Year
- 1,875
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- Internet Archive
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- 2001
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Publication
- Tales of Australian Life; Nathaniel Walter Swan
- Published
- 1875
- Narrative type
- Ghost and Apparition Accounts
- Public-text label
- ghosts
- Archive period
- Gold Rush Colonial
- Location
- Australia (Australia): B
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nd recall, beyond any possibility of casting off the slur — thus always. For what do you take me, Clifden? Tell me that.** She held out her hands, as though putting it to him with all her supplication and loving tenderness. He put his broad shaking hand on the table of the Marie Denton. 153 summer-lioiise, around which last year's creepers were hanging like ghosts, clinging battered by their withered tendrils like brilliant hopes faded to dreary remembrances. " The wornness of my face ? If it is worn, what has worn it P The knowledge of the circumstances I detailed to you, and your connection with those circumstances? They never.
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