Contents
Editor’s Note
Part One
I was not an Orphan
Flocking and Following
Not to be too Clever
Buying A Ram
Folded up small
God’s Arrangements
We saw it Everywhere
Viper’s Fescue
Of Course a Gentleman
Tremulous and Strange
Colossus
Caught Out
Nowhere to Hide
Papering-Over
A Sliver of Home
Happy Event
Part Two
Dry Toast
Something Soft
Animal Spirits
The use of Numbers
Ambition
A Fleck of Truth
Duels
A Sad Case
The Black Gloom
A Flat Shining Beetle
A Private Companion
Secret Knowledge
Intrusion
The Mathematics of it
On Board the Neptune
Eavesdropping
To act so Provokingly
Almighty Providence
The Price to Pay
Form of Words
Part Three
Incredible
Roaches
Presiding God
The Governor’s Gem
Courtesies
Walks
Neither Profit Nor Pleasure
Putting God Aside
Letters
Vigilance
A Household
He has Offered
Mrs Brown
A Sad Beak
Under the Thumb
The Best Kind of Brother
Journal of a Lady
An Agreeable Puzzle
A House with a Piano
First Cousin to the Truth
The Best Kind of Secret
Rising to the Spark
Jack Boddice
A Secret Jest
A Spread of Acres
Britannia
The Fruits of Villainy
A Happy Woman
Part Four
Some Basic Stars
This was not Devon
I Blush at My Error
Blind and Deaf
Sly Magic
The Only Question
Watertight
Particular Folk
The Echo of the Music
Is he Heavy?
Mrs Macarthur and Mr Dawes
A Gift
Trust
Papilio
Writing his Name
A Dangerous Acquaintance
His Disgraceful Hat
Slander
Nothing Needed to be Explained
My Whole Society
Low, Very Low
Gorgon
The Evening Star
Part Five
Public Works
Not a Single Pang
The First Morning
Reprieve
Attacks
Burramattagal
The First Sheep
Wool and Hair
Of The Spanish Breed
To Be Doing
Lamentable
Coming Forward
Fine Wool
Mon Petit Coin
As Elusive as Smoke
Old Hornpipe
Trying To See It
A Great Coldness
Fecundity
I Should Not Have Done
Home
A Dovetail Joint
Two Chances Out of Five
Author’s Note
Acknowledgments