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The Heart of the Bush

Contents

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Contents

Introduction
Page
Love in Infancy, 1
Part First
Between two Hemispheres
Chap.
1. Haeremai, 9
2. Mountain Lilies and Mountain Mists, 26
3. The Wonderful Wertheim, 43
4. Petruchio at Play, 54
5. Adelaide at Confession, 71
6. Under the Tree Ferns, 88
7. At the Boss's Levee, 102
8. Apple Blossom, 116
9. Te Rama-Rama—The bride comes rejoicing—Let the bridegroom rejoice, 129
Part Second.
The Hidden Vale
Chap.
1. A Retrospect—Where childhood sleeps, 149
2. The River Gates, 157page viii
3. Adelaide's Bower of Bliss, 166
4. The white Tohunga, 176
5. The River of Images, 186
6. Tapu, 195
7. Hine-nui-te-po, 208
8. The Return to Light, 212
Part Third.
The Book of Dennis and Adelaide
Chap.
1. How Dennis was being civilised, 227
2. How Adelaide repented of her besetting sin, 240
3. How Dennis loved his Boss, 249
4. How Dennis confessed to his Wife, 256
5. How Dennis went on killing his love, 278
6. How birth and breeding always show themselves in an emergency, 287
7. How Dennis Macdiarmid fought with death for the soul of Adelaide, 294
8. How the Heavens smote Macdiarmid, 302
9. How Dennis came back to Adelaide, and of the joy they had, and how true love is likened to spring, 317