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ghost in Australia Felix

YEAR
1917
PLACE
Victoria
SOURCE
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ghost in Australia Felix

d said: "What's the matter, dear? Are you ill?" In replying to her he disturbed the children, the door of whose room stood ajar; and by the time quiet was restored, further sleep was out of the question. He dressed and quitted the house. Day was breaking; the moon, but an hour back a globe of polis…

Record ID
3,031
Year
1,917
Source
Project Gutenberg
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Record ID
3031
Source
Project Gutenberg
Publication
Australia Felix; Henry Handel Richardson
Published
1917 public-domain Australian fiction; Project Gutenberg transcription
Narrative type
Retellings and Adaptations
Public-text label
ghost
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Victoria (VIC): B
State or territory
VIC
Source voice
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Publicness
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d said: "What's the matter, dear? Are you ill?" In replying to her he disturbed the children, the door of whose room stood ajar; and by the time quiet was restored, further sleep was out of the question. He dressed and quitted the house. Day was breaking; the moon, but an hour back a globe of polished silver, had now no light left in her, and stole, a misty ghost, across the dun-coloured sky. A bank of clouds that had had their night-camp on the summit of Mount Warrenheip was beginning to disperse; and the air had lost its edge. He walked out beyond the cemetary, then sat down on a tree-stump and looked back. The houses that.

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