haunted in Nuggets in the Devil's Punch Bowl
e night he had written and posted letters to all the applicants, requesting them to meet him at his hotel next day. At the hour appointed for the interview, babies in arms, children, young women, middle-aged ones, toothless spinsters, and grandmothers, were sent in to him, one after another, and di…
- Record ID
- 2,411
- Year
- 1,894
- Source
- Project Gutenberg
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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- Record ID
- 2411
- Source
- Project Gutenberg
- Publication
- Nuggets in the Devil's Punch Bowl, and Other Australian Tales; Andrew Robertson
- Published
- 1894
- Narrative type
- Spirit-Person Narratives
- Public-text label
- haunted
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Australia (Australia): B
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
- Public Domain Public Web
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e night he had written and posted letters to all the applicants, requesting them to meet him at his hotel next day. At the hour appointed for the interview, babies in arms, children, young women, middle-aged ones, toothless spinsters, and grandmothers, were sent in to him, one after another, and dismissed with scant courtesy. His Mary was not among them. He haunted the streets by day, and the theatres by night, in the hope of seeing her. He would know her eyes anywhere. If he met her he would almost greet her as an old friend, so well did he seem to know her. Weeks passed away. As he could find no tidings of her he was getting.
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