Ethel Turner

Name: Seven Little Australians — VII : "What Say You to Falling in Love?"
Author: Ethel Turner

Seven Little Australians — VII … (1912)

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“Seven Little Australians — VII : "What Say You to Falling in Love?"”, published in 1912, is a work by Ethel Turner. It explores elements such as Aldith, Meg and James Graham.

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Ethel Turner, Seven Little Australians — VII … (1912)

“ But in this land of youthfulness it is the rule more frequently than the exception, and herein lies the chief defect of the very young Australian girl. She is like a peach, a beautiful, smooth, rich peach, that has come to ripeness almost in a day, and that hastens to rub off the soft, delicate bloom that is its chief charm, just to show its bright, warm colouring more clearly. Aldith had, to her own infinite satisfaction, brushed away her own "bloom," and was at present busily engaged in trying to remove Meg's, which was very soft and lovely before she touched it. ”

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Ethel Turner, Seven Little Australians — VII … (1912)

“ But she grew a trifle thin and large-eyed, and used to make copious notes in her diary every night, and to write a truly appalling quantity of verses, in which "heart" and "part," "grieve" and "leave," "weep" and "keep," and "sigh" and "die," were most often the concluding words of the lines. She endured Andrew for several reasons. He was Alan's brother for one thing, and was always saying things about "old Al," and recording his prowess on the football field; and Aldith might discover her secret if she gave him the cold shoulder altogether. ”

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Ethel Turner, Seven Little Australians — VII … (1912)

“ Now a heroine may have the largest, deepest, and most heavily-lashed eyes imaginable; she may have hair in very truth like the gold "mown from a harvest's middle floor;" she may have lips like cherries and teeth like pearls, and a red nose will be so utterly fatal that all these other charms will pass unnoticed. It cost Meg real anguish of spirit. She carefully read all the Answers to Correspondents in the various papers Aldith lent her in search of a remedy, but nearly everyone seemed to be asking for recipes to promote the growth of the eyelashes or to prevent embonpoint. ”

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Ethel Turner, Seven Little Australians — VII … (1912)

“ And by this boat there always came two boys by the name of Courtney, and a third boy, Aldith's particular property, James Graham. Now the young people had become known to each other at picnics and the like in the neighbourhood, but the acquaintance, instead of ripening on frequent meeting into a frank, pleasant friendship, had taken the turn of secrecy and silly playing at love. James Graham was in a lawyer's office, a young articled cleric of seventeen in undue haste to be that delightful thing, a man. ”

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Ethel Turner, Seven Little Australians — VII … (1912)

“ M. Woolcot. "P.S.—I must ask you, please, not to kiss me. I should be very angry indeed if you did. I don't like kissing at all."
She wrote the last paragraph in a nervous hurry for she had a dread that he might fulfil his promise, if she did not forbid him as soon as they met. ”

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Ethel Turner, Seven Little Australians — VII … (1912)

“ Then she slipped it into an envelope and addressed it to A. Courtney, Esq., it never having even occurred to her for a moment that there was anything at all strange or unconventional in a young girl making such a point that the meeting should be in the dark.
Next she wrote a few lines of explanation to Aldith, and told her to be sure to be in the paddock by half-past eight, and she (Meg) would slip out when the children were going to bed and unlikely to notice.
And then she went out into the garden to find messengers for her two notes. ”

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Ethel Turner, Seven Little Australians — VII … (1912)

“ Courtney,"—she wrote, sitting down at her dressing-table, and scribbling away hurriedly in pencil:—
"It would be horrid going for the walk so early. Let us go later, when it is quite dark. It will be ever so much nicer, for no one will be able to see us. And let us meet at the end of the paddocks where the bush grows thickly, it will be more private. I am writing to Aldith to tell her to go at that time, she will tell Mr. ”

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