E. W. Hornung

Name: Ainslee's Magazine — The Voice of the Charmer
Author: E. W. Hornung

Ainslee's Magazine — The Voice of the Charmer (1913)

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“Ainslee's Magazine — The Voice of the Charmer”, published in 1913, is a work by E. W. Hornung. It explores elements such as Duggan, Charlie and veranda.

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E. W. Hornung, Ainslee's Magazine — The Voice of the Charmer (1913)

“ It was dark when he stepped down from the veranda, shouting welcomes; but though it was dark, and also dinner time, Duggan saw enough of the bride to require a nobbler with Charlie before they all met properly at the table.
“How long have we been married?” said that sinner, as they touched glasses. “I feel as if it were all my life! So will you, when your time comes, my son; everybody does, if they pick a winner.” ”

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E. W. Hornung, Ainslee's Magazine — The Voice of the Charmer (1913)

“ I feel thine embrace.”
So sang Mrs. Charlie at the old Broadwood grand, trusting to her memory for both words and music. The lamp burned behind her on a table, and behind the lamp stood Duggan, who had not heard one word. His entire being was in his eyes, which were starting out of his head with horror. They did not even see Mabel, her lamp-lit neck, or hair; they were fixed upon a big black snake that her song had charmed out of the piano, that was even now poised to strike, perhaps the very second her song should cease! ”

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E. W. Hornung, Ainslee's Magazine — The Voice of the Charmer (1913)

“ She talked capitally, and all the time to Duggan, to her groom's intense delight.
What was even more delightful, and certainly more surprising, was the way old Duggan chattered in his turn, on newspaper topics which he would simply never have mentioned in the old bachelor days. His solitude seemed to have done him good; it, at any rate, had driven him deep into his Australian, and the affairs of the outside world. Men do not really get to know each other by living alone together. It takes a woman to hold them up to one another. Charlie had always known his friend for a great gentleman ”

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E. W. Hornung, Ainslee's Magazine — The Voice of the Charmer (1913)

“ I worship thee so!
“Which is absurd,” concluded Duggan, out of breath. “I mean—last line but one. I'd like to hear it, all same—if it doesn't bore—if anything could rouse—that's it, that's it!”
And Charlie Shand, returning from the township at the nearest approach to a gallop that he could get out of the station night horse, had the same thing running in his head all the way, to a muffled accompaniment of unshod hoofs on a sandy track. ”

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E. W. Hornung, Ainslee's Magazine — The Voice of the Charmer (1913)

“ Duggan had to steady himself with a stiffish nobbler. It was the very first that he had heard of the interloping lady. He could only suppose that Charlie had been bewitched on the voyage and married off the reel on landing. Some such marriages turned out a huge success. Charlie was no fool, either; he knew his own mind better than most, wanted only what was worth having, and saw that he got it nearly every time. He would make no mistake in a big thing like this; trust old Charlie to have done a good stroke for himself and for the station. A woman would be the making of the whole place ”

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E. W. Hornung, Ainslee's Magazine — The Voice of the Charmer (1913)

“ Then she saw her old friend—for he was that—place his bumper in the wicker socket, still without a spill, and then lower himself into the chair with a sigh of simple weariness. That sigh took her to him.
“It was a dirty trick, I know,” he said. “Can you forgive me for it, Mabel?” ”

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E. W. Hornung, Ainslee's Magazine — The Voice of the Charmer (1913)

“ This entailed his own migration to the bachelors' barracks of which they had never as yet made any use. They had run the place between them, those two, without the aid of any of those young gentlemen who hang about most homesteads, and are not worth their parlor rations. ”

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