Robbery Under Arms by Rolf Boldrewood
Author:Rolf Boldrewood [Boldrewood, Rolf]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Fiction, Gold mines and mining -- Australia -- Fiction, Bushrangers -- Australia -- Fiction, Australia -- Gold discoveries -- Fiction
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2021-03-23T17:35:15+00:00
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As everything looked so fair-weather-like, Jim and Jeanie made it up to be married as soon after she came up as he could get a house ready. She came up to Sydney, first by sea and after that to the diggings by the coach. She was always a quiet, hardworking, good little soul, awful timid, and prudent in everything but in taking a fancy to Jim. But thatâs neither here nor there. Women will take fancies as long as the world lasts, and if they happen to fancy the wrong people the more obstinate they hold on to âem. Jeanie was one of the prettiest girls I ever set eyes on in her way, very fair and clear coloured, with big, soft blue eyes, and hair like a cloud of spun silk. Nothing like her was ever seen on the field when she came up, so all the diggers said.
When they began to write to one another after we came to the Turon, Jim told her straight out that though we were doing well now it mightnât last. He thought she was a great fool to leave Melbourne when she was safe and comfortable, and come to a wild place, in a way like the Turon. Of course he was ready and willing to marry her; but, speaking all for her own good, he advised her not. Sheâd better give him up and set her mind on somebody else. Girls that was anyway good-looking and kept themselves proper and decent were very scarce in Melbourne and Sydney now, considering the number of men that were making fortunes and were anxious to get a wife and settle down. A girl like her could marry anybodyâmost likely someone above her own rank in life. Of course she wouldnât have no one but Jim, and if he was ready to marry her, and could get a little cottage, she was ready too. She would always be his own Jeanie, and was willing to run any kind of risk so as to be with him and near him, and so on.
Starlight and I both tried to keep Jim from it all we knew. It would make things twice as bad for him if he had to turn out again, and there was no knowing the moment when we might have to make a bolt for it; and where could Jeanie go then?
But Jim had got one of his obstinate fits. He said we were regularly mixed up with the diggers now. He never intended to follow any other life, and wouldnât go back to the Hollow or take part in any fresh cross work, no matter how good it might be. Poor old Jim! I really believe heâd made up his mind to go straight from the very hour he was buckled to Jeanie; and if heâd only had common luck heâd have been as square and right as George Storefield to this very hour.
I was near forgetting about old George. My word! he was getting on faster than we were, though he hadnât a golden hole.
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