phantom in Australia Felix
w her out, by being kind and encouraging. Instead of which he had acted towards her, he felt convinced, like an ill-mannered boor. He did not know how it was, but he couldn't detach his thoughts from Polly this evening: to their accompaniment he paced up and down. All of a sudden he stood still, an…
- Record ID
- 3,038
- Year
- 1,917
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- Project Gutenberg
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- Record ID
- 3038
- 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
- phantom
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Victoria (VIC): B
- State or territory
- VIC
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
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w her out, by being kind and encouraging. Instead of which he had acted towards her, he felt convinced, like an ill-mannered boor. He did not know how it was, but he couldn't detach his thoughts from Polly this evening: to their accompaniment he paced up and down. All of a sudden he stood still, and gave a short, hearty laugh. He had just seen, in a kind of phantom picture, the feet of the sisters Beamish as they sat on the verandah edge: both young women wore flat sandal-shoes. And so that neatest of neat ankles had been little Polly's property! For his life he loved a well-turned ankle in a woman. A minute later he sat down at.
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