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A tutor was to be selected from Hennessy’s hotel, where there were generally remittance men open for such a post.

Her desire was to rescue her daughters from some of her own hardships and heartbreaks

Danny was no longer a hero. She was seasoned to his sorties. His absences were a relief.

He occupied himself by clearing more cow paddocks on the river banks. In the mortal combat with the trees - a combat waged by every settler...he dreamed of having his holdings as clear as the plains of County Clare

The thrilling enfranchisement of her husband’s early conjugal behaviour had degenerated to that sheepishness & self-consciousness irritating to a wife.