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43 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 3
"WHILE Lucius dreamed his dream beside the wharf where the barges lay moored under the smoky London sky, Geoffrey was following his syren from one provincial town to another, not without some…
Continued on Trove, page 249 →GEOFFREY went to the concert at the Stillmington Assembly Rooms that evening, his disappointment notwithstanding. Granted that he had comported himself in a mean and cad-like fashion ; granted that…
Continued on Trove, page 281 →TOWARDS morning self-indulgent habits triumphed over anxious love. After tossing all night in feverish unrest, Mr. Hossack slept soundly till noon; but not a common-place slumber, for the visions of his head…
Continued on Trove, page 313 →BY this time Mr. Hossack and his friend had come from the pleasant country road into the shabbiest outskirt of S[?]illmington, that outskirt which contained Marlow-street. Strange that even in so select a town…
Continued on Trove, page 345 →THE weakness and the langour that kept Homer Sivewright a prisoner in his bedroom were not the tokens of a mortal illness. Death kept as yet at a respectful distance. The patient might linger for a year,…
Continued on Trove, page 385 →It is one thing for a man to make a rash promise, but another thing for him to keep it. A man in love will pledge himself to any enterprise—to any adventure— even to the discovery of a new planet or a new…
Continued on Trove, page 417 →MR. PETER J.MARTIN, brewer, was the plaintiff in a suit tried in the County Court yesterday, the defendant being Alexander M'Intyre, formerly landlord of the Albert Hotel, better known as the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR PETER J. MARTIN, brewer, was the plaintiff in a suit tried in the Country Court yesterday, the defendant being Alexandur M'Intyre, formerly landlord of the Albert Hotel, better known as the Half-Way…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THEY had dined, and the letter was written. A week-old moon shone in the placid heaven; the tender night stillness had descended upon the always-quiet town; lights twinkled gaily from the casements of…
Continued on Trove, page 449 →THE thought of this conversation with Mr. Sivewright followed Lucius all through the day's work, fie meditated upon it in the intervals of his toil, and that meditation only tended to confirm, him in his…
Continued on Trove, page 481 →THE luncheon party was gay enough, in spite of Mr. and Mrs. Wimple's infatuation for each other, which rendered them, as it were, non-existing for the rest of the party. They gazed upon each other with, rapt…
Continued on Trove, page 513 →SIR,—I am prepared to agree with the most zealous advocate of total abstinence, that the law affecting the sale of intoxicating liquors and the liceniing of public-houses needs amendment, and would be amongst the first to rejoice at the passage of a bill…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WHAT LUCIUS SAW BETWIXT MIDNIGHT AND MORNING. THE sky was starless above the Shadrack Road, and the air hardly less oppressive than it had been in the sultry noontide. That low sky seemed to shut in the…
Continued on Trove, page 577 →Lucius had a keen desire to explore those back, premises, with the vague notion that his examination of them might throw some light upon the mystery which now filled his mind…
Continued on Trove, page 609 →It was now nearly dark, and Lucius was anxious to obtain a speedy release from the sick room, lest the time should creep on towards the hour at which Mr. Otranto's minions were to seek for admittance at the…
Continued on Trove, page 641 →THERE was plenty of work for Lucius in his surgery when he went home, after inducting Mr. Otranto's men in their duties at Cedar House. There were the medicines to be made up, and to be taken round to…
Continued on Trove, page 673 →The Second General MEETING of the Licensed Victuallers was held in the Oddfellows Hall, Elizabeth-street, on TUESDAY EVENING last 25th instant. The chair was taken by the President (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WHILE Lucius Davoren was thus occupied at the east end of London, Geoffrey Hossack was making the best of an existence which he had made up his mind to consider utterly joyless, so long as adverse fate…
Continued on Trove, page 705 →A DEPUTATION from the Society for the Promotion of Morality had an interview with the Colonial Secretary yesterday, respecting a proposed amendment of the Publicans, Act. The deputation consisted of the Bishop of Sydney,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The glory of the summer had departed from the Shadrack Road. The costermongers no longer bawled their fine fresh "Arline" plums, their "gages" at fourpence per quart; cucumbers had grown too…
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