Our Stolen Summer; The Record of a Roundabout Tour

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...tract of country behind, and for their convenience a large gum-store had been erected near the station. Several pack-horses were tethered Close by: their owners, who had come in from the wilds to exchange their little pile of gum for coin and food, stood taciturnly smoking as they surveyed the train. And an energetic Maori lady, in a pink blouse showily trimmed with cheap yellow lace, discussed a question of cargo with the conductor, holding her quantum of bread in her embrace the while. She was evidently free from the characteristic indolence of her race, for from a communicative traveller we learnt that she undertook all the packing at the gum-store--"a man's work; a strong man's, too, and she does it well." Farther along the line we came upon a little cluster of gumdiggers' houses of a less temporary appearance, in that their gables boasted board or tin chimneys; but all had the same ramshackle look. The surrounding earth showed few signs of cultivation, though an occasional heavily-laden peach-tree or a wallowing pumpkin-vine, its length covered with yellow blossoms and large green fruit, bore witness to the adaptability of the soil. The arrival of the train appeared to be the one event of the day at this little hamlet, for on a grassy knoll the women--dishevelled, half-savage-looking creatures most of them--had assembled to show their babes the carriages going past. Separated by the intervening bulk of a small eminence from this community was one exceptional house. Round about his wooden hut the owner had succeeded in reclaiming fully an acre of the fertile ground, and thereon all sorts of vegetables flourished exceedingly, and repaid the squatter's labours by supplying him with a wellnigh...

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A Versailles Christmas Tide

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A Versailles Christmas Tide The Original Classic Edition

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A Versailles Christmas Tide written by Mary Stuart Boyd and Illustrated by A.S. Boyd, is in the English Language with some French subtext. A story of a boy who is stuck at boring school with Scarlet fever over the Christmas holidays. His parents travel over rocky seas and rickety train tracks to the city of Versailles in Paris, France. To see their sick child in the arms of this horrid sickness. The boys parents stay close in the city near where the Boy lay sick. The parents were not allowed to take their son home but were allowed visits. As many weeks follow the Parent become accustomed to their French surrounding in and out of their hotel. The book has wonderful black and white illustrations which depict the french surrounding in which the story is set, illustrations by A.s Boyd (Alexander Stuart). Alexander Stuart was the author, Mary stuart Boyd's husband. They collaborated their work on various occasions. They has a son, Stuart Boyd and the three of them travelled the world and Mary went on to write about their many adventures as a family.

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A Versailles Christmas-Tide

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"[...]blasée, and her millinery was in sympathy with her feelings. Her hats had all a fringe of disconsolate feathers, whose melancholy plumage emphasised the downward curve of her mouth. To see Yvette enter from the darkness and, seating herself at her solitary table, droop over her plate as though there were nothing in Versailles worth sitting upright for, was to view ennui personified. Yvette invariably drank white wine, and the food rarely pleased her. She would cast a contemptuous look over the menu offered by the deferential Henri, then turn wearily away, esteeming that no item on its length merited even her most perfunctory consideration. But after one or two despondent glances, Yvette ever made the best of a bad bargain, and ordered quite a comprehensive little dinner, which she ate with the same air of utter disdain. She always concluded by eating an orange dipped in sugar. Even had a special table not been reserved for her, one could have told where Yvette had dined by the bowl of powdered sugar, just as one could have located the man with the fierce moustaches and the fur coat by the presence of his pepper-mill, or the place of "Madame" from her prodigal habit of rending a quarter-yard of the crusty French bread in twain[...]".

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A Versailles Christmas-tide by Mary Stuart Boyd (World Cultural Heritage Library)

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[ A Versailles Christmas-Tide[ A VERSAILLES CHRISTMAS-TIDE ] By Boyd, Mary Stuart ( Author )Jul-25-2005 Paperback

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Her Besetting Virtue

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