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Title: Philiberta: A Novel

Author: Thorpe Talbot

Publication details: E. W. Cole, Book Arcade, Melbourne

Part of: Nineteenth-Century Novels Collection

This text is the subject of: The ‘strangely curious career’ of Philiberta: a ‘lost’ New Zealand novel

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Philiberta: A Novel

Contents

Contents

Chapter	Page
I. The Bush Fire	5
II. Two Kindly Hearts	11
III. Time, the Great Healer	18
IV. John Campbell's Station	27
V. 'The Way We Civilise'	34
VI. 'Together we will Die'	40
VII. A New Era	48
VIII. 'Not my Other Half'	54
IX. 'A Little Learning'	63
X. 'A Talk Among the Tombs'	70
XI. Lunch and chat at Retlaw's	78
XII. The New Element	88
XIII. 'Have you Nothing to say to me before you go?'	92
XIV. The Hour of Happiness	102
XV. Talk of a Wedding	106
XVI. 'Wholly a Dark Labyrinth'	113
XVII. Founder[gap — reason: invisiable]	120
XVIII. Saved	125
XIX. Philiberta's Scheme	134
XX. A Last Will and Testament	139
XXI. Difficulties	143
XXII. Harper Parkinsson	152
XXIII. Still Harper Parkinsson	158
XXIV. Madge Fitzroy	164
XXV. Philiberta's Failure	170
XXVI. A New Venture	177 page iv
XXVII. Shearers' Rest	184
XXVIII. A Shepherd	192
XXIX. A Squatter	197
XXX. Mudgeeburra	202
XXXI. The other side of the Medal	207
XXXII. A Little Conversation	214
XXXIII. The ways of Women	219
XXXIV. The Key of one Sharp	229
XXXV. The key of Many Flats	234
XXXVI. The Woes and Adventures of an Itinerant Show	237
XXXVII. Woes and Adventures—continued	244
XXXVIII. Woes and Adventures—continued	249
XXXIX. Woes and Adventures—continued	256
XL. Woes and Adventures—continued	260
XLI. Woes and Adventures—continued	264
XLII. Woes and Adventures—continued	274
XLIII. Woes and Adventures—continued	280
XLIV. Woes and Adventures—continued	285
XLV. Woes and Adventures—continued	290
XLVI. After Long years	296
XLVII. Poor Miss Wilks	305
XLVIII. Little Teddy	311
XLIX. An Offer of Marriage	316
L. The Trouble Of Yoanderruk	325
LI. Life at Yoanderruk	331
LII. And old Friend and a new Interest	336
LIII. 'Thou in the Grave Shalt Rest'	342
LIV. A Case of Snakebite	348
LV. 'Comes the Goal more nigh?'	355
LVI. 'The Lights are Growing Dim'	360