By Robin Hyde
Re-creation of a vintage of recent Zealand literature first released in 1938 and nonetheless broadly learn and favorite; edited and brought via Patrick Sandbrook.
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That gave him the excuse he was looking for. He wouldn’t stay another day under a roof where he’d been insulted. He looked fierce, all red and thin and flamyeyed, when he was in this mood, and Augusta gave in. Immediately John was charming again. Carly, Eliza, and Sandra were ‘the children’, and even ‘our children’, and he said happily that in Newtown he could take them to the Zoo and the pictures. ‘And bring home a lot of germs. ’ ‘Oh, look on the bright side for once,’ demanded John, impatiently.
She stared at him, feeling defiant and lonely. She was glad when he looked up and spoke to her. ‘Hullo, little girl next door. ’ ‘Where the fairies live. ’ Bob’s hands, firm under her armpits, swung her from the wall. They went into Mrs Malley’s wash-house, Eliza holding tightly to Bob’s hand. It was a very tidy wash-house, and Mrs Malley had a new rubber wringer. Augusta was always asking Providence for one, and saying it broke her back to wring the clothes out by hand. Bob pulled aside the matting on the floor, and there lay a great hole, a square filled with black velvet darkness.
She pulled out the thick silk of its thistledown, and ate the white nut underneath. Then she arranged the purple silk in a pattern, making it into a doll’s dress. Presently Carly came out, and Eliza showed her what she was doing. Carly fetched her doll, Mrs Trimble, and made her a thistledown dress as well, though her pink rag limbs showed oddly through the rich purple. ’ She loved the sound of crimson lake, though she did not know what it meant. Their father came home, passing the big white hopscotch bases on the pavement, and the other children who were playing French skipping.
