Ethel Turner

Name: The Family at Misrule — XII. THREE COURSES ONE SHILLING
Author: Ethel Turner

The Family at Misrule — XII. THREE COURSES ONE SHILLING (1895)

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“The Family at Misrule — XII. THREE COURSES ONE SHILLING”, published in 1895, is a work by Ethel Turner. It explores elements such as Poppet, Meg and Malcolm.

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Ethel Turner, The Family at Misrule — XII. THREE COURSES ONE SHILLING (1895)

“ There was a crash of crockery, one of those slow, piece-after-piece crashes, when you wonder if there can be anything left to be broken, angry words from the waiter and manager, confusion and laughter on the part of the diners, blankest amazement on the faces of Martha and Malcolm, and in the midst a small girl in a white frock and big hat clinging frantically to "a tallish little boy with brown eyes and dark, rough hair,"—a shabby, white-faced boy in a waiter's apron. ”

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Ethel Turner, The Family at Misrule — XII. THREE COURSES ONE SHILLING (1895)

“ Hush! every one is looking at you; be quiet now, an we'll go to the Gardens, or somewhere where we can talk, and then we'll go home."
"I can't go home," Bunty said faintly.
He wondered if those five terrible months behind him were a dream; or if little trembling Poppet, who was holding him so tightly, was a vision his disordered imagination had called up.
"Oh, I can't go home, of course," he said, and pushed his thick hair back in a tired kind of way. "Hush, Poppet; go home with Martha like a good girl, and, on no account, say you've seen me. ”

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Ethel Turner, The Family at Misrule — XII. THREE COURSES ONE SHILLING (1895)

“ No, I'll have sucking pig too, please, Martha; I like tasting new things."
"Did you ever!" remarked Martha, looking troubled; "it might make you ill, Miss Poppet dear. Have corned beef like a good little girl."
But Poppet could be firm on occasion. She did not dine at a restaurant every day, and when she did she had no intention of confining herself to ordinary things.
"Sucking pig for two," said Malcolm to the waiter, and paused for Poppet's order. ”

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Ethel Turner, The Family at Misrule — XII. THREE COURSES ONE SHILLING (1895)

“ The manager of the restaurant felt himself a very ill-used man that such things should happen at his busiest time; but he was not inhuman, and the boy's deathly face and the little girl's exceeding distress touched him. Besides, Malcolm was his most regular customer; it would be unwise to offend him. So he helped to lift the boy into an inner room, gave Martha brandy and water, and recommended burnt feathers. ”

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Ethel Turner, The Family at Misrule — XII. THREE COURSES ONE SHILLING (1895)

“ Bunty lay with his face to the wall and his lips shut in a dogged kind of way when they had all crowded round asking questions; and at last Meg, seeing he was totally unfit for any excitement or distress, persuaded them to leave him to Poppet and herself till he was stronger. ”

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Ethel Turner, The Family at Misrule — XII. THREE COURSES ONE SHILLING (1895)

“ He had been in or near Sydney all the time, living he hardly knew how. The first month he had done odd jobs, fetched and carried for a grocer in Botany. Then he had managed to get a place on a rough farm in the Lane Cove district, where he was paid four shillings a week and given board and lodging—of a kind. But there had been a long spell of rainy weather and rough westerly winds, and he had been in wet things sometimes from morning to night.
"And it gave me fever—rheumatic—pretty badly," he said; "so they shipped me down to the hospital here in Sydney." ”

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Ethel Turner, The Family at Misrule — XII. THREE COURSES ONE SHILLING (1895)

“ Are healed with the healing which night has shed."
POPPET had been for lunch with Esther or Meg to the Fresh Food and Ice Company, Quong Tart's, and such places on various occasions. But the restaurant to which Malcolm and Martha took her was quite a new experience. ”

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