Romance of Maoriland.
BY ATEA WJSSTBUBT.
CHAPTER ll.— Continued.
Men there are,too, who neither toil nor moil ; men whose clever, well chosen words are full of scathing irony for the human asses who delve and sweat, and rise at cockcrow.
They talk about literature, Mrs Morgan Hardrith expounding positive opinions in that can't-be-denied voice of hers.
Major Trevor, less vehement, but more trenchant, 301113 issue, and th«re is a brilliant fence of words between them until the sharper edge of the woman's wit places the gallant son of Mars hors de co-nbit.
R'loda Hardrifch, heiress and belle of the season, "takes up the running in lieu of her ma. The favorite poeb of this young beauty is Byron; She has no sympithy with Tennyson, because shft does not understand him. " The Idylls of the King" and "Love and Duty" are so much Greek to her. She adores Fielding and Tobias Smollett. If the latter i 3 s mistimes naughty he has also the power of making amends to his readers by being awfully nice.
Alton Lyndhurst sits mute, while his friend Warne fixej his eye glasa and smiles sweetly at the talkers. So the meal progresses to its end.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1870, 13 February 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)
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