The Heart of the Bush
Contents
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Contents
Introduction | |
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Love in Infancy, | 1 |
Part First | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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 |