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Isnt this nice? Luke asked, apparently not upset at her lack ofenthusiasm. Just turn a key and press a button on the dashboardand the car starts. No cranking a handle, no hoping the darneddonk catches before a mans exhausted. This is the life, Meghan
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But it was 1930, and Drogheda knew all about the Depression.Men were out of work all over Australia. Those who could stoppedpaying rent and tying themselves down to the futility of lookingfor work when there was none. Left to fend alone, wives and ch
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She was yanking inexpertly ata large knot when the dreadful thing happened. Off came the hair, all of it,dangling in a tousled clump from the teeth of the comb. Above Agnes's smooth broad brow there was nothing; no head, no bald skull. Just an awful
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1915-1917 MEGGIE 1 On December 8th, 1915, Meggie Cleary had her fourth birthday.After the breakfast dishes were put away her mother silently thrust a brown paper parcel into her arms and ordered her outside. So Meggie squatted down behind the gorse b
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The sight was truly extraordinary; three dabs of person, which were Sister Agatha's face and hands, the rest white starched wimple and bib glaring against layers of blackest black, with a massive rope of wooden rosary beads dangling from an iron ring
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Do you think I'm without a relative in the world and must leave my money and my land to Mother Church, is that it? I have no idea, he said tranquilly, pouring himself more tea. As a matter of fact, I have a brother with a large and thriving family of
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Meggie pulled a square of white towel from the huge pile sitting by the stove warming and spread it carefully on the work table, then lifted the crying child out of the wicker crib. The Cleary hair glittered sparsely on his little skull as Meggie cha
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Meggie never forgot the sound of foghorns, her first introduction to Australia. Paddy carried Fee off the Wahine in his arms, Frank following with the baby, Meggie with a case, each of the boys stumbling wearily under some kind of burden. They had co
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When Paddy took the boys outside so Fee could feed Hal, Meggie gazed after them longingly. These days it seemed she was not to be included as one of the boys, not since the baby had disrupted her life and chained her to the house as firmly as her mot
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和令人生厌的灰蒙蒙的灌木丛隔断了这一望无际的景色。菲那双淡漠的眼睛眺望着这一派景象，脸上的表情没有任何变化，但可怜的麦吉却泪水盈眶了。这是一片可怖的、毫无遮挡而又广漠无
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羊群回到了它们正常的牧场上，克利里一家不得不学习内地午睡的习惯了。他们5点钟起床，中午之前把一切都安排妥贴，然后便大汗淋漓地倒身睡去，直到下午5点钟。在家的女人和围场上的男
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After the bolts of cloth Fee had ordered came on the mail, she sat down at the donated sewing machine and began to make loose dresses in light cotton for herself and Meggie, light trousers and overalls for the men, smocks for Hal, curtains for the wi
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拉尔夫吃了一惊，跳起来，刚想说几句安慰话，可弗兰克比他还快。 我靠这个挣到了钱！他指着膏药，非常温和地说，几分钟就赚了20镑，比玛丽姑姑一个月给咱们俩的工资还多。今天下午在
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大分水岭向东300英里，积雪之厚是多年未见的。但是，自前一个夏天下了一场瓢泼季雨以来，伯伦河口以西滴雨未落。基里的人们都说，天又要早了。干旱不过是推迟了一但它一定会来的，也
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No one ever knew what Stuart was thinking; like Fee, he spoke little and never aired an opinion. And he had a curious knack of being utterly still, as still within himself as he was in body, and to Meggie, closest to him in age, it seemed he could go
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在厨房里，他将这对双生子交给了欣喜若狂的史密斯太太，然后将梅吉带在身边，顺着走道向上房走去。 玛丽卡森正坐在高背椅中。这些年来，她很难得离开它走动走动：由于帕迪督办诸事得
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由于门厅内一移动东西或有人喊叫就会产生一种非同一般的回声，玛丽卡森便从高背椅上移到了书桌旁；她把一张羊皮纸拉到面前，用钢笑在墨水池里蘸了蘸，开始写信。信是一气呵成的，甚
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有从比班-比班来的多米尼克奥罗克；从比尔-比尔来的霍里霍伯顿，以及其他几十位来宾。 他们之中大都是当地信奉天主教的新兴家族，能够以盎格鲁-撒克逊姓氏炫耀一番的家族是很少的。来
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She had money in steel, money in silver-lead-zinc, money in copper and gold, money in a hundred different things, mostly the sort of things that literally and metaphorically made money. Drogheda had long since ceased to be the main source of her inc
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The last two sheets were covered by the same precise, almost minute writing. As mean and grudging as her soul. I, Mary Elizabeth Carson, being of sound mind and sound body, do hereby declare that this is my last will and testament, thereby rendering
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