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... stringy-bark," such being the soubriquet in which inland settlers rejoice. He has no particular maid in view, but has obtained of Bishop Marsden permission to visit the factory and seek a wife, and a letter to the matron certifying his intent. The...

A Residence of Eleven Years in New Holland and the Caroline Islands: Being ... - Seite 49
von James F. O'Connell - 1836 - 265 Seiten
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The Invisible State: The Formation of the Australian State

Alastair Davidson - 2002 - 360 Seiten

...permission to visit the factory and seek a wife . . . The girls are paraded in each room as the Celebs enters it, that is, the marriageable ones of the first and second classes, and the visitor scans them as Turk would Georgians at a slave market . . . The choice at length made ... the...

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